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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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Akhmatova, Anna I've learned to live simply, wisely |
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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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Aulia, Hazrat Nizamuddin O breeze! turn towards Medina (and) from this well-wisher recite the Salaam |
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Aurobindo Reminiscence |
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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 Hear the voice of the Bard! |
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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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Emre, Yunus The lover is outcast and idle |
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Fox, John Consider What Happens |
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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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Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 9: you you |
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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 What I sang so often of Love (from Defense of Love) |
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Hafiz Spring and all its flowers |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Thousand-Stringed Instrument |
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Hakuin Hakuin's Song of Zazen |
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Hallaj, Mansur al- You glide between the heart and its casing |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other |
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Hildegard von Bingen O ignee Spiritus / Hymn to the Holy Spirit |
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Hirshfield, Jane The Lives of the Heart |
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley Each mortal thing does one thing and the same |
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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 I Sought Thee Daily |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Now, a new creature |
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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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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The Mind Like a Firefly |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [9] But come with old Khayyam, and leave the Lot |
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Khayyam, Omar [51] The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ |
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Ko Un Indangsu sea, shine dark blue |
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Krishnamurti, Jiddu Song of the Beloved (from The Immortal Friend) |
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Lawrence, D. H. God is Born |
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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 [Bly] |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Malloy, Merrit Epitaph |
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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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Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
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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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Neruda, Pablo The Poet's Obligation |
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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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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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Rahman Baba Soul Train |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Conquer Death with the drumbeat Ma! Ma! Ma! |
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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 The Smoothness of Stones / Míne na gCloch (from The Last Sasquatch) |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Fasting |
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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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Sarmad Companion |
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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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Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
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Silesius, Angelus Thou needst not cry to God |
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Sinan, Ummi The Rose |
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Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love? |
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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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Stevens, Wallace Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself |
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Stevens, Wallace Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
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Symeon the New Theologian The Light of Your Way |
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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 (38) I want thee, only thee (from Gitanjali) |
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Tennyson, Alfred The Human Cry |
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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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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. Eärendil the Mariner |
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Traherne, Thomas Wonder |
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Trungpa, Chogyam A Heart Lost and Discovered |
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Trungpa, Chogyam Expose |
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Trungpa, Chogyam Purifying and Invoking the Four Directions |
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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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Walters, Dorothy Gifts |
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Walters, Dorothy Scars of Rapture |
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Whitman, Walt I think I could turn and live with animals |
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Yamei Swallowing |