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al-Alawi, Ahmad Layla |
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Ammons, A. R. Rogue Elephant |
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Andal The lotus is greeting the rising sun and the lily has closed its petals; (from Tiruppavai) |
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Ashford, Eric The Journey |
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Ashford, Eric Your Green and Living Art |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The angels have bowed down to you and drowned |
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Aurobindo, Sri Reminiscence |
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Aurobindo, Sri The Word of The Silence |
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Basava Make of my body the beam of a lute |
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Basho, Matsuo A banana plant in the autumn gale - |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Berry, Wendell The Peace of Wild Things |
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Berry, Wendell The Silence |
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Blake, William Hear the voice of the Bard! (from Songs of Experience) |
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Brabazon, Francis Our drop souls are of the ocean of Truth |
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Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God) |
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Brabazon, Francis We have waited all night for you, and now the dawn is come. |
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Bulleh Shah I have been pierced by the arrow of love, what shall I do ? |
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Bulleh Shah The soil is in ferment, O friend |
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Chinmoy, Sri At Last I Shall Listen |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
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cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
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Dadu Dayal So priceless is the birth, O brother, |
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Dariya Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom. (from Love Chapter) |
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Dickinson, Emily [322] There came a Day at Summerıs full, |
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Dickinson, Emily [774] It is a lonesome Glee -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [777] The Loneliness One dare not sound -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [1504] Of whom so dear |
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Dogen Ching-ch'ing's raindrop sound |
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Dogen One of fifteen verses on Dogen's mountain retreat: |
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Dogen One of six verses on snow: |
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Dogen One of six verses composed in An'yoin Temple in Fukakusa, 1230: |
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Galib, Seyh Were I your treasure, you would squander me, |
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Ghalib, Mirza These divine verses, |
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Gibran, Kahlil Prayer (from The Prophet) |
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Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge (from The Prophet) |
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Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king |
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Gorakhnath Gorakh Bani |
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Granger, Ivan M. Bent |
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Granger, Ivan M. Drink Up! |
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Granger, Ivan M. Medusa |
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Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 3: 2 AM |
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Guilhem IX of Poitou Joyous in love, I make my aim |
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Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Crystal Rim |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Geronimo |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) How Could a Lover Fall? |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) That Lamp That Needs No Oil |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Source |
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Hakuin Hakuin's Song of Zazen |
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Han-Ch'ing, Kuan Idle Wandering |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [48] Beneath high cliffs I live alone |
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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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Herbert, George Prayer (I) |
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Hildegard of Bingen O ignee Spiritus / Hymn to the Holy Spirit |
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Hirshfield, Jane A Hand |
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Hirshfield, Jane Metempsychosis |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance |
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Holmes, Dick Words Call to You |
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Holmes, Dick You Have Me |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar If not for me (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Resist the calls of wrangling talk, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Whispering, then listening close (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad The secret divine my ecstasy has taught (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin In the street of wineshops, when |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin It speaks to me in the silence of this one |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love plays its lute behind the screen -- |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin These perfumes: |
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Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn |
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Issa, Kobayashi mountain temple-- |
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Jacobsen, Rolf The Silence Afterwards |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) How the Soul Through the Senses Finds God in All Creatures |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love beyond all telling, (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jami, Ahmad Even from earthly love thy face avert not, |
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Janabai You must accept those who surrender to you |
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Jayadeva [3] When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva [6] My heart values his vulgar ways, (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon Full Consciousness |
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Jnanadev The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav) |
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John of the Cross I Live Yet Do Not Live in Me |
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Kabir The Lord is in Me |
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Kabir [XVII] The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright: |
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Kabir (6) The moon shines in my body |
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Kalidasa Waking |
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Kerouac, Jack Bowery Blues |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [2] Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky |
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Khayyam, Omar [27] Myself when young did eagerly frequent |
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Khayyam, Omar [59] Listen again. One Evening at the Close |
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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 Nativity |
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Lee, Li-Young Out of Hiding |
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Lee, Li-Young Praise Them |
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Leon, Luis de Ode to Francisco Salinas |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Levertov, Denise Illustrious Ancestors |
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Machado, Antonio I dreamt you took me |
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Machado, Antonio Lord, You Tore from Me |
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Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah Turn the darkness of heart by the elixir of the people of the secret, |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Manikkavacakar While unperishing love melted my bones, |
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Marpa (Lotsawa, Marpa) Realisation of Dreams and Mind |
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Mathias, Michael (6) Ramana Seeks out the Mountain of Arunachala (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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Mathias, Michael (9) My Blind Musicians (from Tagore: Gallery of Sketches) |
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Mathias, Michael (10) The Tree of Kabbalah - The Kiss (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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McCombs, Chris Your Pilot |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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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 Night-Flowering Cactus |
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Merton, Thomas Stranger |
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Merton, Thomas In Silence |
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Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
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Milarepa Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones, |
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Milarepa The Song of Perfect Assurance (to the Demons) |
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Milosz, Czeslaw Forget |
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Milosz, Czeslaw On Angels |
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Mirabai Dark Friend, what can I say? |
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Nanak, Guru [Japji 8] From listening, |
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Neruda, Pablo The Poet's Obligation |
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Nevins, Shawn Listen for the sound of no wind. |
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Nevins, Shawn Words are cold this morning. |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone -- |
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O'Donohue, John A Blessing for Equilibrium |
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O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved |
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O'Donohue, John The Inner History of a Day |
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Oliver, Colin Evening |
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Oliver, Mary Can You Imagine? |
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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 The Lark |
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Oliver, Mary This World |
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Osborne, Arthur Death |
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Pattinattar I left the world. |
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Po, Li The Cold Clear Spring at Nanyang |
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Po, Li To Tu Fu from Shantang |
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Po, Li Visiting a Taoist on Taitien Mountain |
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Pope, Alexander Solitude: An Ode |
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Porete, Marguerite Beguines say I err... |
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Qushayri The Watchers |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara -- |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep |
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Rasakhan Effortless Worship |
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Rasakhan Enchanted |
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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 Gong |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Silent friend of many distances, feel |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel Baghdad |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (15) Miracle (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (33) I create silences (from Uttering Her Name) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (89) on first hearing its name (from Uttering Her Name) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (93) not the slaked thirst of Bayazid (from Uttering Her Name) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Ah, what was there in that light-giving candle that it set fire to the heart, and snatched the heart away? |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting. |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin No One Here but Him |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin On Love |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin [1246] The minute I heard my first love story |
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Sanai, Hakim The Good Darkness |
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Sanai, Hakim The Way of the Holy Ones |
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Sanai, Hakim The Wild Rose of Praise |
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Schuon, Frithjof Space |
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Shabistari, Mahmud Sun-Reflections (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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silent lotus Feel the Peace |
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silent lotus There Dwells an Innocence |
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Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love? |
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Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! |
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Snyder, Gary Regarding Wave |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Near, far off, not here, not there, |
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Stevens, Wallace Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself |
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T'ao Ch'ien Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock -- |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Accept me, my lord, accept me for this while. |
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Tagore, Rabindranath He's there among the scented trees, (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Listen, can you hear it? (from The Lover of God) |
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Takahashi, Shinkichi A Wood in Sound |
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Therese of Lisieux My Song for Today |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Trinley, Karma A Song on the View of Voidness |
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Tulsidas Sound Celestial |
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Tulsidas The Rainy Season |
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Vidyapati My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain |
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Walters, Dorothy The Abundance of Brightness |
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Whitman, Walt O Captain! my Captain! |
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Whitman, Walt [2] Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [3] I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [5] I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [10] Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [18] With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [20] Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude; (from Song of Myself) |
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Whyte, David All the True Vows |
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Whyte, David It is Not Enough |
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Wordsworth, William For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) |
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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 [9] O joy! that in our embers (from Ode. Intimations of Immortality) |
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Yeats, William Butler The Everlasting Voices |
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Yeats, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa OM |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [15] Some may slander, some may abuse; (from The Shodoka) |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [17] The incomparable lion-roar of doctrine (from The Shodoka) |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [40] It speaks in silence, (from The Shodoka) |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [46] People hear the Buddha's doctrine of immediacy, (from The Shodoka) |
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Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi |
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Yung Chia (Chueh, Hsuan) Let others slander me; (from The Song of Enlightenment) |
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Yung Chia (Chueh, Hsuan) Let others slander me; (from The Song of Enlightenment) |
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Zohar (de Leon, Moses) The Gates (from Openings) |
