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For Light |
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In Praise of the Earth |
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Adyashanti Rest and Be Taken |
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Alighieri, Dante All Being within this order, by the laws (from The Paradiso, Canto I) |
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Alighieri, Dante And as a ray descending from the sky (from The Paradiso, Canto I) |
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Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect |
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Ammons, A. R. Identity |
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Anandamurti (Sarkar, Prabhat Ranjan) Oh unknown traveler, you come alone |
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Angelou, Maya A Brave and Startling Truth |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Devotion for Thee |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Pupil asks; the Master answers |
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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 peacock's excuse |
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Aulia, Hazrat Nizamuddin In Allah's garden you gather roses, |
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Avaiyar Vinayagar Agaval |
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Barker, Elsa The Mystic Rose |
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Basho, Matsuo The temple bell dies away |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar He Shall be King! |
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Berry, Wendell Enriching the Earth |
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Berry, Wendell How to Be a Poet |
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Berry, Wendell Testament |
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Berry, Wendell The Wish to Be Generous |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Boethius The Bent of Nature |
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Brabazon, Francis Once God, that Great Being (from Stay With God) |
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Broughton, James The Gardener of Eden |
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Bulleh Shah The soil is in ferment, O friend |
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Carpenter, Edward Freedom! the deep breath! |
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Carpenter, Edward The Central Calm |
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Carpenter, Edward The Lake of Beauty |
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Catherine of Siena We were enclosed (from Prayer 20) |
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Cavafy, Constantine P. Growing in Spirit |
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Ching-Yuen, Loy No use fretting over gold, beauty or fame; |
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Ching-Yuen, Loy To know Tao |
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Chinook (Anonymous) Teach us, and show us the Way |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To Nature |
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Crashaw, Richard The Flaming Heart or the Life of the Glorious S. Teresa |
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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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Daniel, Arnaut Every day I improve and grow better |
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Daniel, Arnaut The firm desire that enters |
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Dariya Sahib of Bihar Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom (from Love Chapter) |
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Dickinson, Emily Nature and God -- I neither knew |
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Dogen, Eihei Wondrous nirvana-mind |
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Efendi, Seyh Ibrahim The Sufi Way |
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Eliot, T. S. I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you (from Four Quartets) |
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Emre, Yunus I haven't come here to settle down |
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Emre, Yunus Let Them Have Paradise |
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Emre, Yunus Oh disciple of love, open your eyes |
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Emre, Yunus True speech is the fruit of not speaking |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh You must fathom the ocean |
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Feuerstein, Georg Squaring the Circle |
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Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
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Galib, Seyh Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth |
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Ghalib, Mirza Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise |
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Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil |
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Gibran, Kahlil Pain |
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Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge |
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Gikatilla, Joseph The Nut Garden |
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Granger, Ivan M. Earth and Sky |
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Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui |
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Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim |
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Gyatso, Kelsang Little Tiger |
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ha Nagid, Samuel Gazing Through the Night |
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Hadewijch Tighten |
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Hafiz Spring and all its flowers |
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Hafiz The Garden |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks? |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Here's a message for the faithful |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) You have seen the blossoms among the leaves; |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Walking Meditation |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Padmapani |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Interrelationship |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Hawaiian (Anonymous) He kanaenae no Laka / A Prayer of Adulation to Laka |
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Hayati, Bibi How can I see the splendor of the moon |
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Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power |
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Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) The Face of God |
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Herbert, George Church Monuments |
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Herbert, George Love |
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Herbert, George The Elixir |
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Herbert, George The Flower |
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Herbert, George The Pearl. Matthew 13 |
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Hildegard von Bingen O virga mediatrix / Alleluia-verse for the Virgin |
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Hirshfield, Jane Metempsychosis |
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Hirshfield, Jane Standing Deer |
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Hirshfield, Jane To Hear the Falling World |
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Hirshfield, Jane Tree |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance |
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Holderlin, Friedrich All the Fruit... |
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Holmes, Dick You Have Me |
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley God's Grandeur |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku Roll the Dharma thunder (from The Song of Enlightenment) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [1] There is the leisurely one (from The Shodoka) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [34] They roar with Dharma-thunder (from The Shodoka) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [35] High in the Himalayas, only fei-ni grass grows (from The Shodoka) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [36] One moon is reflected in many waters (from The Shodoka) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Whispering, then listening close (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Lord of the World |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Who can do as Thy deeds |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Who could accomplish what you've accomplished |
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Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) a well nobody dug filled with no water |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin We Yield Our Hearts |
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Islam, Nazrul Come silently like the Moon |
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Islam, Nazrul O Nightingale! |
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Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn |
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Islam, Nazrul Talk to me, javas, talk to me |
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Izzet, Asik Ali The Path of the Beautiful |
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Jayadeva My heart values his vulgar ways (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Kabir Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing |
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Kabir Do not go to the garden of flowers! |
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Kabir I burst into laughter |
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Kabir The moon shines in my body |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) What mind can possibly approach you |
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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 [5] Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose |
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Khayyam, Omar [11] Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough |
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Khayyam, Omar [12] "How sweet is mortal Sovranty!" -- think some |
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Khayyam, Omar [13] Look to the Rose that blows about us -- "Lo |
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Khayyam, Omar [18] I sometimes think that never blows so red |
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Khayyam, Omar [26] Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise |
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Khayyam, Omar [39] How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit |
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Khayyam, Omar [42 - later edition] Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit |
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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 |
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Khayyam, Omar [74] Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane |
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Khunrath, Heinrich A Philosophicall short songe of the incorporating of the Spirit of the Lord in Salt |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu I Am All |
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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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Lalan The moon is encircled by moons |
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Lalla Just for a moment, flowers appear |
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Lalla What is worship? Who are this man |
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Lalla Your way of knowing is a private herb garden |
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Lawrence, D. H. And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be-- |
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Lee, Li-Young Become Becoming |
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Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms |
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Lee, Li-Young Nativity |
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Lee, Li-Young Night Mirror |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Levertov, Denise Seeing for a Moment |
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Levine, Stephen Meng's mountain |
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Levine, Stephen Trust Your Vision |
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Li Bai Alone and Drinking Under the Moon |
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Li Bai Clearing at Dawn |
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Li Bai If High Heaven had no love for wine |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Lu Tung Pin Sojourning in Ta-yu mountains |
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Lu Tung Pin The Hundred Character Tablet (Bai Zi Bei) |
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Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
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Machado, Antonio Songs |
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Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin The Moon of Your Love |
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Mahadevi, Akka Treasure in the Ground |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Maier, Michael Three Golden Apples from the Hesperian grove (from Atalanta Fugiens) |
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Marpa (Lotsawa, Marpa) Realisation of Dreams and Mind |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Set Me on Fire |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg The devil also offers his spirit |
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Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks |
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Merton, Thomas A Psalm |
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Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City |
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Merton, Thomas O Sweet Irrational Worship |
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Merton, Thomas Song for Nobody |
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Merton, Thomas The Fall |
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Merwin, W. S. Thanks |
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Milarepa Song to the Rock Demoness |
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Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
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Milarepa The Song of View, Practice, and Action |
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Milarepa Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones |
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Mistral, Gabriela Song of Death |
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Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) Prayers for the Protection and Opening of the Heart |
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Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) The Soul Speaks (from Hymn on the Fate of the Soul) |
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Naropa The Summary of Mahamudra |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin At love's most sumptuous feast was I with love made drunk |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin I take the Merciful One's shape, the Merciful I am |
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Neruda, Pablo Past |
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Neruda, Pablo Too Many Names |
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Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) Stand at the throne (from The Standing Of the Presence Chamber and the Letter) |
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Novalis When Geometric Diagrams... |
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Nurbakhsh, Javad Desiring You |
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Nurbakhsh, Javad The Beloved |
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O'Donohue, John For a New Beginning |
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Oliver, Colin Cold Mountain |
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Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? |
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Oliver, Mary Mindful |
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Oliver, Mary Morning Poem |
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Oliver, Mary The Buddha's Last Instruction |
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Patrul Rinpoche Advice from Me to Myself |
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Patrul Rinpoche Use the time of your life |
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Plunkett, Joseph Mary I Saw the Sun at Midnight |
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Pope, Alexander The Universal Prayer |
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Pope, Alexander What if the foot ordain'd the dust to tread (from An Essay on Man I) |
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Porete, Marguerite Humility |
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Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) My joy |
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Rabjampa, Longchen An Adamantine Song on the Ever-Present |
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Rahman Baba Sow Flowers |
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Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Come, let us go for a walk, O mind |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) I drink no ordinary wine |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Its value beyond assessment by the mind |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Ramsay, Jay At Fintry House |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Deer |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Deluge |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Vision |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Buddha in Glory |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria For your sake poets sequester themselves |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria I am, O Anxious One |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria I find you, Lord, in all Things and in all |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria We are the driving ones |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria We say release, and radiance, and roses |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria What birds plunge through is not the intimate space |
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Roethke, Theodore In a Dark Time |
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Roethke, Theodore The Waking |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel the grace showered on me |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (1) You are in me (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I smile like a flower not only with my lips |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I'm neither beautiful nor ugly |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Now comes the final merging |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin This love sacrifices all souls, however wise, however "awakened" |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin With Us |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin You have fallen in love my dear heart |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin You are closer to me than myself (Ghazal 2798) |
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Ryokan At Yahiko Mountain |
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Ryokan The plants and flowers |
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Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling |
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Sa'di How could I ever thank my Friend? |
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San'at, Mohammad 'Aref The Lamp of Your Face |
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Sanai, Hakim It's your own self |
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Sanai, Hakim Meditation |
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Sanai, Hakim Naked in the Bee-House |
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Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Sarmad He and I are one |
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Sarmad My heart searched for your fragrance |
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Sarton, May Now I Become Myself |
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Sarton, May The Work of Happiness |
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Saure, Gunter In Time |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) It's something no on can force |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) Most of the time I smile |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) Paper windows bamboo walls hedge of hibiscus |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) This body's lifetime is like a bubble's |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) To glorify the Way what should people turn to |
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Shore, Laura Jan Don't Say It |
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silent lotus Feel the Peace |
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silent lotus The Hush |
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silent lotus The Temple Walls |
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Silesius, Angelus In God nought e'er is known |
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Silesius, Angelus Unless within you it already lies |
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Sinan, Ummi The Rose |
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Singh, Darshan At dusk, at dawn I gaze upon your beauty |
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Singh, Darshan In what state was I |
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Snyder, Gary For All |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Soseki, Muso Snow Garden |
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Soseki, Natsume Plum flower temple |
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Sri Chinmoy (Kumar Ghose, Chinmoy) At Last I Shall Listen |
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Stafford, William The Gift |
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Stagnaro, Janaka Crushing Leaves |
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Symeon the New Theologian The Light of Your Way |
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Szymborska, Wislawa Children of Our Era |
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Szymborska, Wislawa Nothing Twice |
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Szymborska, Wislawa Possibilities |
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T'ao Ch'ien In youth I could not do what everyone else did |
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T'ao Ch'ien Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock |
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Tagore, Rabindranath He's there among the scented trees (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath I touch God in my song |
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Tagore, Rabindranath On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Your flute plays the exact notes of my pain. (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (75) Thy gifts to us mortals fulfil all our needs (from Gitanjali) |
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Teasdale, Sara Two Songs for Solitude |
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Tennyson, Alfred Flower in the crannied wall |
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Tennyson, Alfred If thou would'st hear the Nameless (from The Ancient Sage) |
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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 O Mind, Be Clear |
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Therese of Lisieux My Song for Today |
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Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Sam's Song of Strength |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Song of Beren and LĂșthien |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Upon the hearth the fire is red |
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Traherne, Thomas Love |
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Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness |
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Trungpa, Chogyam A flower is always happy |
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Trungpa, Chogyam A Heart Lost and Discovered |
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Tukaram I have found the sea |
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Tukaram Smaller than the smallest atom |
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Ungar, Lynn Camas Lillies |
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Valad, Sultan The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive |
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Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch |
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Vaughan, Henry Unprofitableness |
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Vaughan, Henry Vain wits and eyes |
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Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand |
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Walcott, Derek Earth |
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Walters, Dorothy Don't Make Lists |
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Walters, Dorothy Ruined by Your Beauty |
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Walters, Dorothy The Abundance of Brightness |
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Wei, Wang Fields and Gardens by the River Qi |
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Wei, Wang Living in the Mountain on an Autumn Night |
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Wei, Wang Stone Gate Temple in the Blue Field Mountains |
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Whitman, Walt Pioneers! O Pioneers! |
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Whitman, Walt [1] I celebrate myself, and sing myself (from Song of Myself) |
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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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Wordsworth, William For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) |
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Wordsworth, William O joy! that in our embers (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality) |
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Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1) |
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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 "To every Form of being is assigned," (from The Excursion, Book 9) |
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Wu Men Hui-k'ai Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn |
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Yeats, William Butler Sailing to Byzantium |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa OM |
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Yun-k'an Tzu no tricks |