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For Freedom |
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Adyashanti Today I Awoke |
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AE (Russell, George William) Star Teachers |
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Angelou, Maya Caged Bird |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Simurgh |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Hawk |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Birds Find Their King |
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Ayaz Coming to know You |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Bitkoff, Stewart Captive Bird |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Brabazon, Francis Once God, that Great Being (from Stay With God) |
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Bulleh Shah Your passion stirs me |
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cummings, e. e. may my heart always be open to little |
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Dickinson, Emily It is a lonesome Glee |
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Dogen, Eihei Coming or Going |
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Dogen, Eihei One of six verses on snow: |
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Emre, Yunus Oh disciple of love, open your eyes |
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Ganjavi, Mahsati A world there is for those in love with mines of precious stones |
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Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von The Second Poem the Night-Walker Wrote |
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Granger, Ivan M. First dawn |
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Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui |
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Granger, Ivan M. rock doves mourn |
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ha Nagid, Samuel Gazing Through the Night |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Crystal Rim |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Geronimo |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Source |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Hawkes, Patricia Isabella |
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Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) The Throne of Glory Addresses the King |
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Herbert, George Prayer (I) |
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Hildegard von Bingen Columba aspexit / Sequence for Saint Maximin |
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Hirshfield, Jane Standing Deer |
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Holmes, Dick Words Call to You |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [48] In the sandalwood forest, there is no other tree (from The Shodoka) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Bright are Thy tresses, brighten them even more (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Islam, Nazrul Come silently like the Moon |
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Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn |
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Jacobsen, Rolf Guardian Angel |
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Jacobsen, Rolf The Silence Afterwards |
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Jayadeva You rest on the circle of Sri's breast (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The mountain stands steady in its grandeur |
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Khayyam, Omar [7] Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu Song of the Beloved (from The Immortal Friend) |
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Kuzminsky, Irina A Sequence of Embraces |
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Lawrence, D. H. God is Born |
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Lawrence, D. H. Self Pity |
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Lee, Li-Young Out of Hiding |
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Lee, Li-Young Praise Them |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Levertov, Denise Illustrious Ancestors |
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Li Bai Along the Stream |
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Li Bai Self-Abandonment |
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Li Bai The birds have vanished into the sky |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Lowitz, Leza Waiting |
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Mahadevi, Akka You are the forest |
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Masahide When bird passes on |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg A fish cannot drown in water |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Effortlessly |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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Merton, Thomas A Psalm |
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Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City |
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Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus |
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Merton, Thomas O Sweet Irrational Worship |
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Merton, Thomas Stranger |
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Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings |
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Merwin, W. S. To the New Year |
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Meshullam da Piera Song at Dawn |
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Milosz, Czeslaw A Song on the End of the World |
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Milosz, Czeslaw Love |
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Milosz, Czeslaw This Only |
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Mirabai I have heard that today Hari will come |
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Mirabai The Beloved Comes Home |
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Mirabai Unbreakable, O Lord |
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Mueller, Lisel Why I Need the Birds |
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Oliver, Colin Air |
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Oliver, Mary Can You Imagine? |
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Oliver, Mary This World |
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Plunkett, Joseph Mary I See His Blood Upon the Rose |
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Ramsay, Jay At Fintry House |
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Ramsay, Jay By Loch Arrow |
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Ramsay, Jay In the End: The Beginning |
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Ramsay, Jay Infinity and Beyond |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Bird Bath |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Ah, not to be cut off |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Dove that ventured outside |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria What birds plunge through is not the intimate space |
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Roethke, Theodore The Right Thing |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel Bird in Flight |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel Bird in Flight / Éan ar Eite (from The Last Sasquatch) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel Spring With a Thousand Clichés |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (7) Were I a little bird (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (8) Barefoot (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin What I want is to see your face |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Ryokan Caged Birds |
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Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling |
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Sanai, Hakim Naked in the Bee-House |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
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Shih Shu mountain sounds carry a chill wisdom |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) Outside the door I made but don't close |
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Shore, Laura Jan Again |
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Stafford, William At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border |
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Stafford, William Being a Person |
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Stafford, William Today |
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Surdas Krishna Awakes |
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T'ao Ch'ien I built my hut within where others live |
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T'ao Ch'ien Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock |
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Takahashi, Shinkichi Destruction |
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Taliesin Taliesin's Song of his Origins |
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Teasdale, Sara The Fountain |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Frodo's Lament for Gandalf |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Sam's Song of Strength |
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Tu Fu Rain, Four Poems: Two Selections |
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Tu Fu Spring Passing |
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Tulsi Sahib The Rainy Season |
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Twichell, Chase Saint Animal |
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Vidyapati All my inhibition left me in a flash |
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Wright, Richard Leaving its nest |
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Wright, Richard The day is so long |
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Yeats, William Butler Sailing to Byzantium |