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Poems with the theme of Mountain

  Ammons, A. R. Eyesight
  Ammons, A. R. Hymn
  Angelou, Maya A Brave and Startling Truth
  Angelou, Maya Caged Bird
  Attar, Farid ud-Din Invocation
  Attar, Farid ud-Din A dervish in ecstasy
  Bahu, Sultan So what if love's idol is hidden? One's heart will never be far away
  Bhitai, Shah Abdul Latif If you are seeking Allah
  Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem)
  Broughton, James Having Come This Far
  Buson Mountains of Yoshino
  Ching-Yuen, Loy No use fretting over gold, beauty or fame;
  Chinook (Anonymous) Teach us, and show us the Way
  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan
  Crashaw, Richard To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus
  cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral)
  Dickinson, Emily The hallowing of Pain
  Dickinson, Emily The Pile of Years is not so high
  Dionysius the Areopagite from The Doctrine of Infinite Growth
  Dogen, Eihei One of fifteen verses on Dogen's mountain retreat:
  Dogen, Eihei The Western Patriarch's doctrine is transplanted!
  Eliot, T. S. I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you (from Four Quartets)
  Emre, Yunus I am before, I am after
  Emre, Yunus The drink sent down from Truth,
  Emre, Yunus We encountered the house of realization
  Gibran, Kahlil Prayer
  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von In a Thousand Forms
  Granger, Ivan M. Mountain Peaks
  Granum Sinapis (Anonymous) Granum Sinapis
  Han-Ch'ing, Kuan Idle Wandering
  Han-Ch'ing, Kuan this autumn scene's worth words paint
  Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Above Cold Mountain the moon shines alone
  Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Clambering up the Cold Mountain path
  Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Someone lives in a mountain gorge
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other
  Hao-jan, Meng Climbing Long-View Mountain's Highest Peak
  Hawaiian (Anonymous) He kanaenae no Laka / A Prayer of Adulation to Laka
  Hildegard von Bingen Columba aspexit / Sequence for Saint Maximin
  Hildegard von Bingen O Euchari in leta via / Sequence for Saint Eucharius
  Hildegard von Bingen O mirum admirandum / Antiphon for Saint Disibod
  Hildegard von Bingen O spectabiles viri / Antiphon for Patriarchs and Prophets
  Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance
  Holderlin, Friedrich All the Fruit...
  Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [18] I wandered over rivers and seas, crossing mountains and streams (from The Shodoka)
  Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [22] I have entered the deep mountains to silence and beauty; (from The Shodoka)
  Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [50] The Buddha's doctrine of directness (from The Shodoka)
  Hung-chih Cheng-chueh Silently and serenely one forgets all words;
  ibn Gabirol, Solomon Thou art the Supreme Light
  Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
  Issa, Kobayashi swatting a fly
  Issa, Kobayashi mountain temple
  Issa, Kobayashi spring day
  Issa, Kobayashi serene and still
  Jakushitsu A Visit to Hattoji Temple
  Jakushitsu Living in the Mountains
  Jakushitsu Sitting in the Mountains
  Jan, Chiao Inscribed on the Wall of the Hut by the Lake
  Jayadeva My heart values his vulgar ways (from The Gitagovinda)
  Jayadeva When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda)
  Jayadeva You rest on the circle of Sri's breast (from The Gitagovinda)
  Jeffers, Robinson Rock and Hawk
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The mountain stands steady in its grandeur
  Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
  Krishnamurti, Jiddu I Am All
  Krishnamurti, Jiddu Song of the Beloved (from The Immortal Friend)
  Lawrence, D. H. And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be--
  Levertov, Denise Witness
  Levine, Stephen Meng's mountain
  Lu Tung Pin Sojourning in Ta-yu mountains
  Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs
  Machado, Antonio Songs
  Mahadevi, Akka Riding the blue sapphire mountains
  Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters
  Mei, Yuan Climbing the Mountain
  Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings
  Milarepa The Song on Reaching the Mountain Peak
  Mipham Rinpoche, Sakyong To My Father, to the Vajra Sangha
  Mirabai The Heat of Midnight Tears
  Mirabai Why Mira Can't Come Back to Her Old House
  Mistral, Gabriela I Am Not Alone
  Nasimi, Imadeddin At love's most sumptuous feast was I with love made drunk
  Nasimi, Imadeddin Both worlds within my compass come, but this world cannot compass me
  Nasimi, Imadeddin I take the Merciful One's shape, the Merciful I am
  Novalis Over I journey
  Oliver, Colin Cold Mountain
  Oliver, Colin Ploughing at Nightfall
  Oliver, Colin Windswept
  Oliver, Mary Sunrise
  Oliver, Mary Wild Geese
  Pima (Anonymous) The Creation of the Earth
  Po Chu-i Staying at Bamboo Lodge
  Po, Li Clearing at Dawn
  Po, Li Parting
  Po, Li The birds have vanished into the sky
  Po, Li Visiting a Taoist on Taitien Mountain
  Po, Li You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest
  Ramsay, Jay In the Aber Valley
  Reninger, Elizabeth Reflection
  Reninger, Elizabeth splash
  Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile
  Rilke, Rainer Maria Anticipating the Passion (from The Life of the Virgin Mary)
  Roethke, Theodore In a Dark Time
  Roethke, Theodore The Right Thing
  Rosenstock, Gabriel I create silences (from Uttering Her Name)
  Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin What I want is to see your face
  Ryokan The Autumn Moon
  Ryokan The Lotus
  Ryokan This world
  Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa)
  Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) One must remain in the vastness
  Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) Sky empty and luminous
  Shankara Endless is my Wealth
  Shih Shu mountain sounds carry a chill wisdom
  Shih-te (Pickup) I live in a place without limits
  Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak
  Snyder, Gary Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
  Soseki, Muso Buddha's Satori
  Soseki, Muso Temple of Eternal Light
  Sun Buer Refining the Spirit
  Szymborska, Wislawa Children of Our Era
  Szymborska, Wislawa I'm Working on the World
  T'ao Ch'ien After Liu Ch'ai-Sang's Poem
  T'ao Ch'ien I built my hut within where others live
  T'ao Ch'ien In youth I could not do what everyone else did;
  Tagore, Rabindranath I touch God in my song
  Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali)
  Tagore, Rabindranath (103) In one salutation to thee, my God (from Gitanjali)
  Takahashi, Shinkichi Camel
  Taliesin Primary Chief Bard
  Tennyson, Alfred The Higher Pantheism
  Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven
  Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa)
  Tolkien, J. R. R. Eärendil the Mariner
  Tolkien, J. R. R. Frodo's Lament for Gandalf
  Tolkien, J. R. R. Sam's Song of Strength
  Tolkien, J. R. R. The Song of Beren and Lúthien
  Trungpa, Chogyam Purifying and Invoking the Four Directions
  Tu Fu Moon, Rain, Riverbank
  Tu Fu Spring Passing
  Tu Fu Visiting the Monastery at Lung-men
  Ueshiba, Morihei I stand in the mountain stream
  Vivekananda In dense darkness, O Mother
  Vivekananda Song of the Sanyasin
  Walters, Dorothy Shambhala
  Wei, Wang Drifting on the Lake
  Wei, Wang Living in the Mountain on an Autumn Night
  Wei, Wang My Cottage at Deep South Mountain
  Wei, Wang Stone Gate Temple in the Blue Field Mountains
  Wei, Wang Temple Tree Path
  Whitman, Walt [10] Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt (from Song of Myself)
  Whitman, Walt [44] It is time to explain myself -- let us stand up (from Song of Myself)
  Wu Men (Hui-k'ai) Moon and clouds are the same;
  Yen-shou, Yung-ming Yen-shou's Poem of Enligthenment
  Yun, Hsu An Exquisite Truth
  Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi


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