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Poems with the theme of Smile
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said In my heart Thou dwellest--else with blood I'll drench it; | |
| Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Nothing but burning sobs and tears tonight | |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham And YHVH spoke to me when I saw His name | |
| Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World) | |
| Adyashanti The Shape of Love | |
| Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect | |
| Angelou, Maya Million Man March Poem | |
| Angelou, Maya Phenomenal Woman | |
| Angelou, Maya Savior | |
| Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever | |
| Arnaut Daniel The firm desire that enters | |
| Attar, Farid ud-Din God Speaks to Moses | |
| Aurobindo The Word of The Silence | |
| Avaiyar Vinayagar Agaval | |
| Basava The waters of joy | |
| ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium | |
| Bernart de Ventadorn When I see the lark beating | |
| Blake, William Auguries of Innocence | |
| Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem) | |
| Blake, William Eternity | |
| Blake, William Hear the voice of the Bard! | |
| Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God) | |
| Broughton, James Lessen the doldrums | |
| Broughton, James The Gardener of Eden | |
| Bulleh Shah this love -- O Bulleh -- tormenting, unique | |
| Cavafy, Constantine P. Ithaca | |
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To Nature | |
| Colonna, Vittoria da I live on this depraved and lonely cliff | |
| cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) | |
| cummings, e. e. may my heart always be open to little | |
| Emre, Yunus The lover is outcast and idle | |
| Feuerstein, Georg The Original Oak | |
| Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river | |
| Gibran, Kahlil Prayer | |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Ha! A rush of bliss (from Faust) | |
| Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim | |
| ha-Nagid, Samuel Red in aspect, sweet in taste | |
| Hadewijch Love Has Seven Names | |
| Hadewijch What I sang so often of Love (from Defense of Love) | |
| Hafiz Hair disheveled, smiling lips, sweating and tipsy | |
| Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Reverence | |
| Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Thousand-Stringed Instrument | |
| Hallaj, Mansur al- You glide between the heart and its casing | |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation | |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other | |
| Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names | |
| Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) Hymn for the Descent to the Merkava | |
| Hildegard von Bingen Ave generosa / Hymn to the Virgin | |
| Hildegard von Bingen O ignis Spiritus Paracliti / Sequence for the Holy Spirit | |
| Holmes, Dick You Have Me | |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: | |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [21] Since I abruptly realized the unborn (from The Shodoka) | |
| Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [23] When you truly awaken (from The Shodoka) | |
| Ibn al-Farid, Umar Be drunk from it (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) | |
| ibn Gabirol, Solomon Ecstasy | |
| Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) | |
| Iraqi, Fakhruddin Every word of every tongue is | |
| Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? (from In Praise of Divine Love) | |
| Jayadeva My heart values his vulgar ways (from The Gitagovinda) | |
| Jayadeva When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda) | |
| John of the Cross I Live Yet Do Not Live in Me | |
| John of the Cross Not for All the Beauty | |
| Kabir The bhakti path winds in a delicate way | |
| Kabir The Guest is inside you, and also inside me; | |
| Kabir The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright: | |
| Kamalakanta O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss! | |
| Kamalakanta The black bee of my mind is drawn in sheer delight | |
| Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity | |
| Khayyam, Omar [51] The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ | |
| Khayyam, Omar [75] And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass | |
| Ko Un Indangsu sea, shine dark blue | |
| Krishnamurti, Jiddu I have been a wanderer long (from The Search) | |
| Lalla To learn the scriptures is easy | |
| Lawrence, D. H. God is Born | |
| Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms | |
| Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) | |
| Luria, Isaac A Poem for the Small Face | |
| Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping | |
| Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters | |
| Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead | |
| Meher Baba The Beloved's Face | |
| Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks | |
| Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus | |
| Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling | |
| Milosz, Czeslaw This Only | |
| Mipham Rinpoche, Sakyong Night in Kalapa | |
| Mirabai The Heat of Midnight Tears | |
| Nirmala A lasting marriage | |
| Novalis Uplifted is the stone | |
| O'Donohue, John A Blessing for Equilibrium | |
| O'Donohue, John A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted | |
| O'Donohue, John For Presence | |
| O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved | |
| Oliver, Colin Cold Mountain | |
| Osborne, Arthur Be Still | |
| Patrul Rinpoche Advice from Me to Myself | |
| Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) My joy | |
| Rahman Baba Soul Train | |
| Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? | |
| Reninger, Elizabeth Bird Bath | |
| Rilke, Rainer Maria Anticipating the Passion (from The Life of the Virgin Mary) | |
| Roethke, Theodore In a Dark Time | |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel I create silences (from Uttering Her Name) | |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel I was a beggar (from Uttering Her Name) | |
| Rosenstock, Gabriel (4) A daisy picked (from Year of the Goddess) | |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting | |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I smile like a flower not only with my lips | |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Keep on knocking | |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean | |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The grapes of my body can only become wine | |
| Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin You have fallen in love my dear heart | |
| Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness | |
| Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) | |
| Sarmad Companion | |
| Sarmast, Sachal I search in the streets, I cast my sights | |
| Sarmast, Sachal We are, what are we? | |
| Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters | |
| Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) A Song by a Yogi in Solitude | |
| Shankara The Shattering of Illusion (Moha Mudgaram from The Crest Jewel of Discrimination) | |
| Silesius, Angelus God, whose love and joy | |
| Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! | |
| Solovyov, Vladimir Near, far off, not here, not there | |
| Symeon the New Theologian The Light of Your Way | |
| Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body | |
| Symeon the New Theologian You, oh Christ, are the Kingdom of Heaven; | |
| Szymborska, Wislawa A Few Words on the Soul | |
| Szymborska, Wislawa The Camel | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath Who are You, who keeps my heart awake? (from The Lover of God) | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali) | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (63) Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not (from Gitanjali) | |
| Tagore, Rabindranath (80) I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (from Gitanjali) | |
| Teasdale, Sara Joy | |
| Tennyson, Alfred And Galahad fled along them bridge by bridge (from The Holy Grail) | |
| Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate | |
| Therese of Lisieux My Song for Today | |
| Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew | |
| Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven | |
| Tolkien, J. R. R. Eärendil the Mariner | |
| Traherne, Thomas My Spirit | |
| Traherne, Thomas The Rapture | |
| Traherne, Thomas Wonder | |
| Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness | |
| Trungpa, Chogyam A Heart Lost and Discovered | |
| Trungpa, Chogyam Expose | |
| Trungpa, Chogyam The Education of the Warrior | |
| Tukaram Can water drink itself? | |
| Tulsi Sahib The Rainy Season | |
| Underhill, Evelyn Dynamic Love | |
| Vaughan, Henry Vain wits and eyes | |
| Vidyapati The moon has shone upon me | |
| Wei, Wang Drifting on the Lake | |
| Wordsworth, William "And what are things eternal?--powers depart," (from The Excursion, Book 4) | |
| Wordsworth, William For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) | |
| Wordsworth, William The Daffodils | |
| Wordsworth, William Thus while the days flew by, and years passed on (from The Prelude, Book 2) | |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa God! God! God! | |
| Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
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