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Poetry
Chaikhana
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Garden |
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Poems with the theme of Garden
| Alighieri, Dante And as a ray descending from the sky (from The Paradiso, Canto I) | |
| Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect, | |
| Ammons, A. R. Identity | |
| Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Devotion for Thee | |
| Arnaut Daniel The firm desire that enters | |
| Ashford, Eric Perfectly | |
| Ashford, Eric Stay Close to the Lovers | |
| Ashford, Eric Your Green and Living Art | |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale | |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din The Hawk | |
| Aulia, Hazrat Nizamuddin In Allah's garden you gather roses, | |
| Avaiyar Vinayagar Agaval | |
| Basava Does it matter how long | |
| Basho, Matsuo Temple bell, | |
| Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks | |
| Blake, William Auguries of Innocence | |
| Bulleh Shah The soil is in ferment, O friend | |
| Catherine of Siena We were enclosed, (from Prayer 20) | |
| Ching-Yuen, Loy To know Tao | |
| Chinook (Anonymous) Teach us, and show us the Way | |
| Cloud of Unknowing The Ecstasy of the Atoms | |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan | |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To Nature | |
| cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) | |
| Dariya Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom. (from Love Chapter) | |
| Dionysius the Areopagite from The Doctrine of Infinite Growth | |
| Dogen Wondrous nirvana-mind | |
| Emre, Yunus True speech is the fruit of not speaking. | |
| Feuerstein, Georg Squaring the Circle | |
| Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun | |
| Ghalib, Mirza Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise -- | |
| Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil (from The Prophet) | |
| Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge (from The Prophet) | |
| Granger, Ivan M. Drink Up! | |
| Granger, Ivan M. Earth and Sky | |
| Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui | |
| Granger, Ivan M. white world | |
| Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim | |
| Hadewijch Tighten | |
| Hafiz Spring and all its flowers | |
| Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [7] You have seen the blossoms among the leaves; | |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation | |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Interrelationship | |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names | |
| Hawaiian (Anonymous) He kanaenae no Laka / A Prayer of Adulation to Laka | |
| Hayati, Bibi How can I see the splendor of the moon | |
| Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power | |
| Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) The Face of God | |
| Herbert, George Church-Monuments | |
| Herbert, George The Elixir | |
| Herbert, George The Flower | |
| Hildegard of Bingen O virga mediatrix / Alleluia-verse for the Virgin | |
| Hirshfield, Jane Metempsychosis | |
| Hirshfield, Jane Tree | |
| Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance | |
| Holderlin, Friedrich All the Fruit... | |
| Holmes, Dick You Have Me | |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Whispering, then listening close (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) | |
| ibn Gabirol, Solomon Who can do as Thy deeds | |
| Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) | |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin We Yield Our Hearts | |
| Islam, Nazrul Come silently like the Moon | |
| Islam, Nazrul O Nightingale! | |
| Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn | |
| Islam, Nazrul Talk to me, javas, talk to me -- | |
| Jayadeva [3] When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda) | |
| Jayadeva [6] My heart values his vulgar ways, (from The Gitagovinda) | |
| Kabir Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing: | |
| Kabir (4) Do not go to the garden of flowers! | |
| Kabir (6) The moon shines in my body | |
| Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) What mind can possibly approach you | |
| Kamalakanta The black bee of my mind is drawn in sheer delight | |
| Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity | |
| Khayyam, Omar [5] Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose, | |
| Khayyam, Omar [13] Look to the Rose that blows about us -- "Lo, | |
| Khayyam, Omar [18] I sometimes think that never blows so red | |
| Khayyam, Omar [26] Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise | |
| Khayyam, Omar [46 - later edition] Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare | |
| Khayyam, Omar [74] Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, | |
| Lalan The moon is encircled by moons. | |
| Lalla (Ded, Lal) What is worship? Who are this man | |
| Lawrence, D. H. And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be-- | |
| Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms | |
| Lee, Li-Young Nativity | |
| Lee, Li-Young Night Mirror | |
| Leon, Luis de The Life Removed | |
| Levine, Stephen Meng's mountain | |
| Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) | |
| Lu Tung Pin Sojourning in Ta-yu mountains -- | |
| Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs | |
| Machado, Antonio Songs | |
| Mahadevi, Akka Would a circling surface vulture | |
| Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters | |
| Mathias, Michael (2) Dukkha - The Cause of All Suffering (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) | |
| Mathias, Michael (13) Jalal's Search for Jamal and the Mystical Tree (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) | |
| McCombs, Chris Passion for the Sacred | |
| McCombs, Chris Pavanas | |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead | |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg The devil also offers his spirit | |
| Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks | |
| Merton, Thomas A Psalm | |
| Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City | |
| Merton, Thomas O Sweet Irrational Worship | |
| Merton, Thomas Song for Nobody | |
| Merton, Thomas The Fall | |
| Mistral, Gabriela Song of Death | |
| Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) The Soul Speaks (from Hymn on the Fate of the Soul) | |
| Neruda, Pablo Too Many Names | |
| Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) Stand at the throne (from The Standing Of the Presence Chamber and the Letter) | |
| O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved | |
| Oliver, Colin Cold Mountain | |
| Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? | |
| Oliver, Mary Mindful | |
| Po, Li Alone and Drinking Under the Moon | |
| Po, Li Clearing at Dawn | |
| Porete, Marguerite Humility | |
| Rabjampa, Longchen An Adamantine Song on the Ever-Present | |
| Rahman Baba Sow Flowers | |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Come, let us go for a walk, O mind, | |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) I drink no ordinary wine, | |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Its value beyond assessment by the mind | |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara -- | |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? | |
| Reninger, Elizabeth Deer | |
| Reninger, Elizabeth Deluge | |
| Reninger, Elizabeth Vision | |
| Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile | |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Buddha in Glory | |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice | |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all | |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) | |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria We are the driving ones. | |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria We say release, and radiance, and roses, | |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel (1) You are in me (from Year of the Goddess) | |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel (51) the grace showered on me (from Uttering Her Name) | |
| Rumi, Jelaluddin I'm neither beautiful nor ugly | |
| Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean | |
| Rumi, Jelaluddin You are closer to me than myself (Ghazal 2798) | |
| Ryokan The plants and flowers | |
| Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling; | |
| Saadi How could I ever thank my Friend? | |
| Sanai, Hakim Meditation | |
| Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness | |
| Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) | |
| Sarmad He and I are one, | |
| Sarmad My heart searched for your fragrance | |
| silent lotus Feel the Peace | |
| Silesius, Angelus In God nought e'er is known, | |
| Sinan, Ummi The Rose | |
| Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings | |
| Soseki, Muso Snow Garden | |
| Soseki, Natsume Plum flower temple: | |
| T'ao Ch'ien Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock -- | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath He's there among the scented trees, (from The Lover of God) | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath Your flute plays the exact notes of my pain. (from The Lover of God) | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (75) Thy gifts to us mortals fulfil all our needs (from Gitanjali) | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (81) On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali) | |
| Teasdale, Sara Two Songs for Solitude | |
| Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew | |
| Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven | |
| Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness | |
| Trungpa, Chogyam A flower is always happy | |
| Trungpa, Chogyam A Heart Lost and Discovered | |
| Valad, Sultan The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive | |
| Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch | |
| Vaughan, Henry Unprofitableness | |
| Vaughan, Henry Vain wits and eyes | |
| Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand, | |
| Walters, Dorothy Don't Make Lists | |
| Walters, Dorothy Ruined by Your Beauty | |
| Wei, Wang Fields and Gardens by the River Qi | |
| Wei, Wang Living in the Mountain on an Autumn Night | |
| Wei, Wang Stone Gate Temple in the Blue Field Mountains | |
| Whitman, Walt [6] A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, (from Song of Myself) | |
| Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1) | |
| Wordsworth, William "To every Form of being is assigned," (from The Excursion, Book 9) | |
| Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, | |
| Yun-k'an Tzu no tricks |
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M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2008 by Ivan M. Granger.
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