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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [33] Lovers are sacrifices to the Beloved, |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [142] Rise early at dawn, when our storytelling begins. |
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Adyashanti Rest and Be Taken |
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Akha Let it be whatever is in the book; |
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al-Nuri, Abu 'l-Husayn I had supposed that, having passed away |
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Ammons, A. R. An Improvisation for Angular Momentum |
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Ammons, A. R. Rogue Elephant |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah The one You kill, |
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Ashford, Eric Stay Close to the Lovers |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Simurgh |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Pupil asks; the Master answers |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din A dervish in ecstasy |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din Looking for your own face |
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Aurobindo, Sri The Guest |
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Bahu, Sultan So what if love's idol is hidden? One's heart will never be far away. |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath What shall I say to You, Sankari? |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar He Shall be King! |
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Bernart de Ventadorn When I see the lark beating |
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Berry, Wendell Testament |
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Berry, Wendell The Silence |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Bradstreet, Anne There is a path no vulture's eye hath seen, (from The Vanity of All Worldly Things) |
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Cloud of Unknowing Blessed With a Kiss |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor What is Life? |
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Crashaw, Richard A Song |
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Crashaw, Richard To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus |
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cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
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cummings, e. e. now does our world descend |
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Dickinson, Emily [322] There came a Day at Summerıs full, |
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Dickinson, Emily [611] I see thee better -- in the Dark -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [615] Our journey had advanced -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [777] The Loneliness One dare not sound -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [1503] More than the Grave is closed to me -- |
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Efendi, Seyh Ibrahim The Sufi Way |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh Raga Asa |
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Feng-kan (Big Stick) Sinking like a rock in the sea |
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Feuerstein, Georg Odin's Ordeal |
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Francis of Assisi Exhortation to St. Clare and Her Sisters |
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Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
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Ghalib, Mirza The Rose with its redolent petals |
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Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil (from The Prophet) |
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Gorakhnath Gorakh Bani |
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Granger, Ivan M. Day and Night |
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Granger, Ivan M. Empty Dawn |
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Granger, Ivan M. Goodnight Moon |
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Granger, Ivan M. Medusa |
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Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 3: 2 AM |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) How Could a Lover Fall? |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Love is the Funeral Pyre |
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Hakuin The monkey is reaching |
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Hallaj Kill me, my faithful friends, |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [29] I spur my horse past the ruined city; |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Fall Moon Festival |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Hildegard of Bingen O spectabiles viri / Antiphon for Patriarchs and Prophets |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Be drunk from it, (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin We Yield Our Hearts |
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Islam, Nazrul mother, i may have been a naughty child, |
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Jacobsen, Rolf The Silence Afterwards |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Now, a new creature |
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Jayadeva Raga Gujri |
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Jayadeva [2] You rest on the circle of Sri's breast, (from The Gitagovinda) |
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John of the Cross I Live Yet Do Not Live in Me |
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John of the Cross Love's Living Flame |
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Kabir When the Day Came |
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Kabir [XII] Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale. |
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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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Kerouac, Jack Bowery Blues |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [34] Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn |
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Khayyam, Omar [37] Ah, fill the Cup: -- what boots it to repeat |
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Khayyam, Omar [52 - later edition] But that is but a Tent wherein may rest |
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Lalla (Ded, Lal) I, Lalla, willingly entered through the garden-gate, |
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Lawrence, D. H. And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be-- |
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Lawrence, D. H. Self Pity |
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Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms |
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Levertov, Denise The Secret |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Mahadevi, Akka I love the Handsome One: |
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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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Masahide Masahide's Death Poem |
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Mathias, Michael The Tower of Silence |
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Mathias, Michael (2) Dukkha - The Cause of All Suffering (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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Mathias, Michael (6) Ramana Seeks out the Mountain of Arunachala (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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Mathias, Michael (10) The Tree of Kabbalah - The Kiss (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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McCombs, Chris Come Have a Drink |
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McCombs, Chris Your Pilot |
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Milarepa The Song of the Twelve Deceptions |
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Mistral, Gabriela Song of Death |
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Mistral, Gabriela Those Who Do Not Dance |
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Neruda, Pablo Gautama Christ |
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Neruda, Pablo Still Another Day: XVII Men |
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Nevins, Shawn From far across the green hills, |
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Novalis Over I journey |
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Novalis The youth thou art who ages long hast stood |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone -- |
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O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved |
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Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? |
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Oliver, Mary Sunrise |
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Osborne, Arthur Be Still |
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Osborne, Arthur Death |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness. |
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Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe, |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Conquer Death with the drumbeat Ma! Ma! Ma! |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Of what use is my going to Kasi any more? |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kali! |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria O Lacrimosa |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (25) snake unwinding (from Uttering Her Name) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Inner Wakefulness |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin No end to the journey |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Ryokan To kindle a fire, |
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Saadi How could I ever thank my Friend? |
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Saadi If one His praise of me would learn, |
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Sanai, Hakim Bloom Like a Rose |
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Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) All sounds are the resonance of voidness |
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Shankara The Shattering of Illusion (Moha Mudgaram from The Crest Jewel of Discrimination) |
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Shih-te (Pickup) [2] Doesn't anyone see |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Soseki, Muso Toki-no-Ge (Satori Poem) |
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Stein, Edith Novena Of The Holy Spirit |
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T'ao Ch'ien Success and failure? No known address. |
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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 Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tiruvalluvar Impermanence |
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Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness |
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Tsogyel, Yeshe The Supreme Being is the Dakini Queen of the Lake of Awareness! |
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Vaughan, Henry The Night |
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Vivekananda, Swami Kali the Mother |
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Vivekananda, Swami Song of the Sanyasin |
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Walters, Dorothy The Moment |
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Whitman, Walt [6] A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [7] Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [24] Walt Whitman, a cosmos, of Manhattan the son, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whyte, David All the True Vows |
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Yeats, William Butler A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety |
