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For Presence |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said In my heart Thou dwellest--else with blood I'll drench it |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Nothing but burning sobs and tears tonight |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham And YHVH spoke to me when I saw His name |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 3 (from Life of the Future World) |
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Adyashanti The Shape of Love |
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Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect |
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Angelou, Maya Million Man March Poem |
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Angelou, Maya Phenomenal Woman |
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Angelou, Maya Savior |
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Arabi, Muhyiddin ibn In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din God Speaks to Moses |
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Aurobindo The Word of The Silence |
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Avaiyar Vinayagar Agaval |
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Basava The waters of joy |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Bernart de Ventadorn When I see the lark beating |
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Bitkoff, Stewart Desert Tears |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem) |
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Blake, William Eternity |
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Blake, William Hear the voice of the Bard! |
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Booth, Philip Saying It |
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Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God) |
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Broughton, James Lessen the doldrums |
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Broughton, James The Gardener of Eden |
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Bulleh Shah this love -- O Bulleh -- tormenting, unique |
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Carpenter, Edward Freedom! the deep breath! |
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Carpenter, Edward The Lake of Beauty |
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Carpenter, Edward The sun shines, as of old |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To Nature |
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cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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cummings, e. e. may my heart always be open to little |
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Daniel, Arnaut The firm desire that enters |
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Emre, Yunus The lover is outcast and idle |
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Feuerstein, Georg The Original Oak |
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Ganjavi, Nizami The seeker loses his way to You |
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Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river |
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Gibran, Kahlil Prayer |
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Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim |
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ha Nagid, Samuel Answer Me |
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ha Nagid, Samuel Red in aspect, sweet in taste |
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Hadewijch Love Has Seven Names |
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Hadewijch What I sang so often of Love (from Defense of Love) |
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Hafiz Hair disheveled, smiling lips, sweating and tipsy |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Reverence |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Thousand-Stringed Instrument |
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Hallaj, Mansur al- You glide between the heart and its casing |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names |
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Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) Hymn for the Descent to the Merkava |
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Hildegard von Bingen Ave generosa / Hymn to the Virgin |
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Hildegard von Bingen Holy Spirit of Fire |
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Holmes, Dick You Have Me |
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley Each mortal thing does one thing and the same |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [21] Since I abruptly realized the unborn (from The Shodoka) |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [23] When you truly awaken (from The Shodoka) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Be drunk from it (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Ecstasy |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Every word of every tongue is |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? (from In Praise of Divine Love) |
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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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John of the Cross I Live Yet Do Not Live in Me |
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John of the Cross Not for All the Beauty |
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Kabir The bhakti path winds in a delicate way |
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Kabir The Guest is inside you, and also inside me |
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Kabir 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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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 [51] The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ |
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Khayyam, Omar [75] And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass |
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Ko Un A Smile |
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Ko Un Indangsu sea, shine dark blue |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu I have been a wanderer long (from The Search) |
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Kuzminsky, Irina In the beginning was the Word |
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Lalla To learn the scriptures is easy |
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Lawrence, D. H. God is Born |
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Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Luria, Isaac A Poem for the Small Face |
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Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping [Bly] |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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McCombs, Chris The Friend Is Always There |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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Meher Baba The Beloved's Face |
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Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks |
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Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus |
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Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
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Milosz, Czeslaw This Only |
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Mirabai The Heat of Midnight Tears |
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Mueller, Lisel What is Left to Say |
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Nirmala A lasting marriage |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone |
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Oliver, Colin Cold Mountain |
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Osborne, Arthur Be Still |
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Patrul Rinpoche Advice from Me to Myself |
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Plunkett, Joseph Mary I See His Blood Upon the Rose |
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Plunkett, Joseph Mary The Splendour of God |
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Rabia al-Basri (Adawiyya, Rabia al-) My joy |
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Rahman Baba Soul Train |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Ramsay, Jay Sadhu |
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Ramsay, Jay Sadhu |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Bird Bath |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria For your sake poets sequester themselves |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Anticipating the Passion (from The Life of the Virgin Mary) |
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Roethke, Theodore In a Dark Time |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel I create silences |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel I was a beggar |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (4) A daisy picked (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I smile like a flower not only with my lips |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Keep on knocking |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The grapes of my body can only become wine |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin You have fallen in love my dear heart |
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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 Companion |
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Sarmast, Sachal I search in the streets, I cast my sights |
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Sarmast, Sachal We are, what are we? |
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Sarton, May Now I Become Myself |
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Saure, Gunter brilliant moons |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
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Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) A Song by a Yogi in Solitude |
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Shankara The Shattering of Illusion (Moha Mudgaram from The Crest Jewel of Discrimination) |
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Shiwu (Stonehouse) Most of the time I smile |
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Shushtari, Abu al-Hasan al- You are ultimate joy |
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Silesius, Angelus God, whose love and joy are present everywhere |
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Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Near, far off, not here, not there |
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Stagnaro, Janaka Going Home |
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Symeon the New Theologian The Light of Your Way |
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Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
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Symeon the New Theologian You, oh Christ, are the Kingdom of Heaven |
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Szymborska, Wislawa A Few Words on the Soul |
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Szymborska, Wislawa The Camel |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Who are You, who keeps my heart awake? (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (1) Thou hast made me endless (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (63) Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (80) I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (from Gitanjali) |
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Teasdale, Sara Joy |
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Tennyson, Alfred And Galahad fled along them bridge by bridge (from The Holy Grail) |
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Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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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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Tolkien, J. R. R. Eärendil the Mariner |
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Traherne, Thomas My Spirit |
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Traherne, Thomas The Rapture |
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Traherne, Thomas Wonder |
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Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness |
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Trungpa, Chogyam A Heart Lost and Discovered |
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Trungpa, Chogyam Expose |
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Trungpa, Chogyam The Education of the Warrior |
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Tukaram Can water drink itself? |
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Tulsi Sahib The Rainy Season |
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Underhill, Evelyn Dynamic Love |
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Vaughan, Henry Vain wits and eyes |
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Vidyapati The moon has shone upon me |
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Waghray, Raj The One in White |
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Walcott, Derek Love After Love |
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Wei, Wang Drifting on the Lake |
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Whitman, Walt I think I could turn and live with animals |
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Wordsworth, William For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) |
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Wordsworth, William "If the dear faculty of sight should fail (from The Excursion, Book 4) |
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Wordsworth, William The Daffodils |
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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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Yogananda, Paramahansa God! God! God! |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
