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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World) |
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Adyashanti The Shape of Love |
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Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect, |
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Arnaut Daniel The firm desire that enters |
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Ashford, Eric Ecstasy |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din A slave's freedom |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din A dervish in ecstasy |
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Aurobindo, Sri The Word of The Silence |
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Avaiyar Vinayagar Agaval |
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Basava The waters of joy |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Bernart de Ventadorn When I see the lark beating |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Blake, William Eternity |
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Blake, William The Divine Image |
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Cavafy, Constantine P. Ithaca |
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Chinmoy, Sri The Absolute |
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Cloud of Unknowing How Can I Deny You? |
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Cloud of Unknowing The Crucifixion |
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Cloud of Unknowing The Ecstasy of the Atoms |
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Cloud of Unknowing The Recital |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To Nature |
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Colonna, Vittoria da I live on this depraved and lonely cliff |
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cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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cummings, e. e. now does our world descend |
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Dadu Dayal As many as are the waves of the sea, |
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Dickinson, Emily [172] 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! |
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Dickinson, Emily [774] It is a lonesome Glee -- |
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Feuerstein, Georg The Original Oak |
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Francis of Assisi Let us desire nothing else |
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Ghalib, Mirza Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise -- |
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Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river |
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Gibran, Kahlil Prayer (from The Prophet) |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Ha! A rush of bliss (from Faust) |
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Granger, Ivan M. Abyss |
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Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim |
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Gyatso, Chone Lama Lodro A Dance of Unwavering Devotion |
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Hadewijch Love Has Seven Names |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) Hymn for the Descent to the Merkava |
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Hildegard of Bingen Ave generosa / Hymn to the Virgin |
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Hildegard of Bingen O ignis Spiritus Paracliti / Sequence for the Holy Spirit |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin When we came together |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Thou Livest |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Who can do as Thy deeds |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad The secret divine my ecstasy has taught (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Every word of every tongue is |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) In losing all, the soul has risen (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? (from In Praise of Divine Love) |
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Jayadeva When he quickens all things (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva [6] My heart values his vulgar ways, (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jnanadev The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav) |
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John of the Cross On the Communion of the Three Persons (from Romance on the Gospel) |
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Kabir Hang up the swing of love today! |
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Kabir The Lord is in Me |
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Kabir [XVII] The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright: |
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Kamalakanta O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss! |
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Kamalakanta The black bee of my mind is drawn in sheer delight |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [74] Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, |
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Khayyam, Omar [75] And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass |
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Lalla (Ded, Lal) I traveled a long way seeking God, |
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Lalla (Ded, Lal) To learn the scriptures is easy, |
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Lawrence, D. H. God is Born |
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Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms |
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Leon, Luis de Ode to Francisco Salinas |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Luria, Isaac A Poem for the Small Face |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Necklet of Nine Gems |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Song of the Poppadum |
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Mathias, Michael (9) My Blind Musicians (from Tagore: Gallery of Sketches) |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus |
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Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
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Milosz, Czeslaw This Only |
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Nevins, Shawn I AM |
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Nirmala A lasting marriage |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone -- |
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O'Donohue, John A Blessing for Equilibrium |
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O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved |
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Osborne, Arthur Be Still |
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Pampattic Cittar Dance o snake |
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Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
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Pattinattar The eightfold Yoga |
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Pope, Alexander The Dying Christian to His Soul |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) My joy -- |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Its value beyond assessment by the mind |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Of what use is my going to Kasi any more? |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who in this world |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who is that Syama woman |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Ravidas The Name alone is the Truth, |
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Reninger, Elizabeth BirdBath |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria As once the winged energy of delight |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (4) A daisy picked (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting. |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Keep on knocking |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness |
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Sanai, Hakim The Way of the Holy Ones |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Schuon, Frithjof Heart's Wisdom |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
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Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) A Song by a Yogi in Solitude |
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Shankara The Shattering of Illusion (Moha Mudgaram from The Crest Jewel of Discrimination) |
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Silesius, Angelus God, whose love and joy |
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Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Symeon the New Theologian As soon as your mind has experienced |
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Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (63) Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not (from Gitanjali) |
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Teasdale, Sara Joy |
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Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God |
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Thayumanavar All visible life that is clothed in body vesture (from Bliss that is Perfect Full) |
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Thayumanavar Let Us in Meekness Worship |
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Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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Thayumanavar To have reached the state of impassivity that holds (from Bliss that is Perfect Full) |
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Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tiruvalluvar Love |
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Traherne, Thomas The Bible |
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Traherne, Thomas The Rapture |
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Traherne, Thomas Wonder |
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Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness |
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Tulsidas Sound Celestial |
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Tulsidas The Rainy Season |
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Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand, |
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Vidyapati The moon has shone upon me, |
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Vivekananda, Swami Song of the Sanyasin |
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Wei, Wang Drifting on the Lake |
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Whitman, Walt [2] Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [44] It is time to explain myself -- let us stand up. (from Song of Myself) |
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Wordsworth, William "And what are things eternal?--powers depart," (from The Excursion, Book 4) |
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Wordsworth, William For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) |
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Wordsworth, William The Daffodils |
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Wordsworth, William Thus while the days flew by, and years passed on, (from The Prelude, Book 2) |
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Wordsworth, William [9] O joy! that in our embers (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality) |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa God! God! God! |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa What bliss at the sight of Thy light! |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [21] Since I abruptly realized the unborn, (from The Shodoka) |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [23] When you truly awaken, (from The Shodoka) |
