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Akha Speaker of truth and the sun -- these two -- |
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Akha When one settles into a state of desirelessness, |
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Akhmatova, Anna A land not mine, still |
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Alighieri, Dante And as a ray descending from the sky (from The Paradiso, Canto I) |
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Andal The full moon day of Margazhi is here (from Tiruppavai) |
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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 Suddenly |
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Ashford, Eric Your Green and Living Art |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Dullard Sage |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The pilgrim sees no form but His and knows (from Bou Ali and the Old Woman) |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Simurgh |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The peacock's excuse |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din All who, reflecting as reflected see |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din Mysticism |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Birds Find Their King |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Eternal Mirror |
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Beni Raga Ramkali |
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Bernart de Ventadorn When I see the lark beating |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Blake, William Eternity |
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Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend |
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Brabazon, Francis Once God, that Great Being, (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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Bronte, Emily No coward soul is mine, |
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Colonna, Vittoria da I live on this depraved and lonely cliff |
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cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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cummings, e. e. i carry your heart with me |
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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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Dasimayya, Devara What can I hurt now |
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Dickinson, Emily [214] I taste a liquor never brewed -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [611] I see thee better -- in the Dark -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [1053] It was a quiet way -- |
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Dickinson, Emily [1056] There is a Zone whose even Years |
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Feuerstein, Georg Dawn of Wisdom |
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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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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Oh, happy he who still can hope in our day (from Faust) |
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Granger, Ivan M. Day and Night |
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Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui |
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Granger, Ivan M. in love with the new sun |
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Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 9: you you |
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Gyatso, Kelsang Little Tiger |
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H.D. (Doolittle, Hilda) The Mysteries Remain |
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Hafiz Cupbearer, it is morning, fill my cup with wine. |
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Hafiz Sun Rays |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Crystal Rim |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Consumed in Grace |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) How Could a Lover Fall? |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks? |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other |
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Hao-jan, Meng A Night on the River |
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Hawaiian (Anonymous) E ala e |
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Hawaiian (Anonymous) Ho'opuka e-ka-la ma ka hikina/The Dawning of Enlightenment |
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Hayati, Bibi Before there was a hint of civilization |
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Hildegard of Bingen Columba aspexit / Sequence for Saint Maximin |
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Hildegard of Bingen O Euchari in leta via / Sequence for Saint Eucharius |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar In memory of the beloved (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin It speaks to me in the silence of this one |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Know yourself: a cloud |
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Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) As air becomes the medium for light when the sun rises, (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Now, a new creature |
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon Who Knows What is Going On |
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Jnanadev The Refutation of Knowledge (from Amritanubhav) |
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Kabir Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing: |
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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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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Lakota (Anonymous) Three Lakota Songs |
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Lawrence, D. H. Glory |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping, |
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Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
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Machado, Antonio Songs |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Mathias, Michael The Tower of Silence |
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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 Finish Me Off |
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Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus |
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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 Stranger |
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Meshullam da Piera Song at Dawn |
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Milosz, Czeslaw Forget |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin At love's most sumptuous feast was I with love made drunk - |
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Nawaz, Gharib Riddle |
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Nevins, Shawn The rooster crows in mid-morning, |
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Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) The Standing "My Time Has Come" |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone -- |
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Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? |
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Oliver, Mary Sunrise |
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Oliver, Mary This World |
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Oliver, Mary Wild Geese |
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Porete, Marguerite How Truth Praises Such Souls |
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Rahman Baba Soul Train |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Meditate on Kali! Why be anxious? |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria We say release, and radiance, and roses, |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (2) From each and every pore (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (4) A daisy picked (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (61) in a Transylvanian mud-bath (from Uttering Her Name) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin I lost my world, my fame, my mind -- |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Reason, leave now! You'll not find wisdom here! |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The Sun Must Come |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself. |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Ryokan First days of spring -- the sky |
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Ryokan The Lotus |
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Sanai, Hakim Meditation |
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Sanai, Hakim Streaming |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Sarmad Companion |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Mirror (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabkar (Rangdrol, Shabkar Tsogdruk) Sky empty and luminous |
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Shih Shu "nothing to do; nothing to lose" |
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silent lotus Our Remains |
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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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Stevens, Wallace Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself |
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Surdas Krishna Awakes |
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T'ao Ch'ien Autumn chrysanthemums have beautiful color, |
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T'ao Ch'ien Success and failure? No known address. |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (80) I am like a remnant of a cloud of autumn (from Gitanjali) |
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Taliesin A Poem for the Wind |
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Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God |
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Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew |
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Traherne, Thomas The Rapture |
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Trungpa, Chogyam Purifying and Invoking the Four Directions |
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Tu Fu Rain, Four Poems: Two Selections |
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Vaughan, Henry The Night |
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Vaughan, Henry Unprofitableness |
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Walters, Dorothy A Cloth of Delicate Gold |
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Wei, Wang Fields and Gardens by the River Qi |
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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 [24] Walt Whitman, a cosmos, of Manhattan the son, (from Song of Myself) |
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Wordsworth, William "And what are things eternal?--powers depart," (from The Excursion, Book 4) |
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Wordsworth, William Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 |
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Wordsworth, William Such was the Boy--but for the growing Youth (from The Excursion, Book 1) |
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Yen-shou, Yung-ming Immovable Mind |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Thy light transfigures all creation |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [63] However the burning iron ring revolves around my head, (from The Shodoka) |
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Yun-k'an Tzu no tricks |
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Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi |
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Zorman, Alenka midday sun |
