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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [7] Mansoor, that whale of the Oceans of Love, |
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Abulafia, Rabbi Abraham Circles 1 (from Life of the Future World) |
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Adyashanti Rest and Be Taken |
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Akhmatova, Anna A land not mine, still |
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Alighieri, Dante All Being within this order, by the laws (from The Paradiso, Canto I) |
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Allama Prabhu If it rains fire |
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Ammons, A. R. Hymn |
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Ammons, A. R. Rogue Elephant |
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Ashford, Eric A Flame in the Eye of Love |
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Ashford, Eric Morning Market |
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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 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 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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Badakhshani, Binavi I became water |
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Basava The waters of joy |
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Basava Where they feed the fire |
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Basho, Matsuo A banana plant in the autumn gale - |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath Oh Ma Kali, for a long time now |
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Bedil, Abdul-Qader His Living Proof |
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Beni Raga Ramkali |
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Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1998, VI |
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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! (from Songs of Experience) |
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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 Our drop souls are of the ocean of Truth |
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Bradstreet, Anne There is a path no vulture's eye hath seen, (from The Vanity of All Worldly Things) |
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Catherine of Siena We were enclosed, (from Prayer 20) |
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Ching-Yuen, Loy To know Tao |
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Chinook (Anonymous) Teach us, and show us the Way |
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Cloud of Unknowing Neuron |
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Cloud of Unknowing The Crucifixion |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
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cummings, e. e. i am a little church(no great cathedral) |
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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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Dariya You have nothing to worry about. |
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Dasimayya, Devara Who is it that echoes |
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Dickinson, Emily [214] I taste a liquor never brewed -- |
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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 composed in An'yoin Temple in Fukakusa, 1230: |
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Efendi, Seyh Ibrahim The Sufi Way |
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Emre, Yunus The drink sent down from Truth, |
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Emre, Yunus True speech is the fruit of not speaking. |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh On the bank of a pool in the moor |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh You must fathom the ocean |
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Feng-kan (Big Stick) Sinking like a rock in the sea |
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Galib, Seyh If I say that the skies have opened |
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Galib, Seyh Were I your treasure, you would squander me, |
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Gascoigne, Dame Catherine One thing alone I crave / Unum sit mihi totum |
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Ghalib, Mirza The drop dies in the river |
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Ghalib, Mirza The Rose with its redolent petals |
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Gibran, Kahlil Good and Evil (from The Prophet) |
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Gibran, Kahlil Self-Knowledge (from The Prophet) |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Oh, happy he who still can hope in our day (from Faust) |
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Gosain, Haude On the other shore |
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Granger, Ivan M. Abyss |
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Granger, Ivan M. Fidelity |
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Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui |
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Granger, Ivan M. Parched |
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Granger, Ivan M. Rain Upcountry |
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Granger, Ivan M. When the Spring Thaw Comes |
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Hadewijch Dew (from Love's Seven Names) |
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Hadewijch Love Has Seven Names |
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Hafiz A New World |
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Hafiz Spring and all its flowers |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Geronimo |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) That Lamp That Needs No Oil |
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Hakuin Hakuin's Song of Zazen |
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Han-Ch'ing, Kuan this autumn scene's worth words paint |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) My heart is like the autumn moon |
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Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [204] Down to the stream to watch the jade flow |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Fall Moon Festival |
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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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Hao-jan, Meng A Night on the River |
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Hao-jan, Meng Climbinb Long-View Mountain's Highest Peak |
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Hatun, Zeynep I am a fountain, You are my water. |
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Herbert, George The Flower |
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Hildegard of Bingen Ave generosa / Hymn to the Virgin |
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Hildegard of Bingen Columba aspexit / Sequence for Saint Maximin |
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Hildegard of Bingen O ignee Spiritus / Hymn to the Holy Spirit |
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Hildegard of Bingen O ignis Spiritus Paracliti / Sequence for the Holy Spirit |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Hyperion's Song of Destiny |
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Holmes, Dick Afternoon in April |
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Holmes, Dick You Have Me |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin In Memory of Those Who Melt the Soul Forever |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar Compared to my dawn, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ikkyu (Sojun, Ikkyu) A Fisherman |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Bright are Thy tresses, brighten them even more, (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world; (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin As sunlight is attributed to the moon, so is the Beloved's form ascribed to the lover; but in truth |
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Islam, Nazrul Let's Meet Hereafter! |
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Issa, Kobayashi spring begins-- |
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Issa, Kobayashi stillness-- |
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Jacobsen, Rolf Moon and Apple |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) How the Soul Through the Senses Finds God in All Creatures |
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Jan, Chiao Inscribed on the Wall of the Hut by the Lake |
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Janabai You leave your greatness behind you |
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Janabai You must accept those who surrender to you |
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Jayadeva Raga Maru |
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Jayadeva When he quickens all things (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva [2] You rest on the circle of Sri's breast, (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva [3] When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jeffers, Robinson Carmel Point |
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon Full Consciousness |
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Jimenez, Juan Ramon Oceans |
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Jnanadev Knowledge and Ignorance (from Amritanubhav) |
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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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John of the Cross Song of the Soul That Delights in Knowing God by Faith |
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John of the Cross The Fountain |
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Kabir Hang up the swing of love today! |
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Kabir The Drop and the Sea |
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Kabir The Lord is in Me |
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Kabir [XII] Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale. |
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Kabir [XVII] The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright: |
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Kabir (8) Within this earthen vessel |
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Kamalakanta Mother, |
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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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Kerouac, Jack The taste |
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Khayyam, Omar [5] Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose, |
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Khayyam, Omar [7] Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring |
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Khayyam, Omar [28] With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, |
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Khayyam, Omar [29] Into this Universe, and Why not knowing, |
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Khayyam, Omar [48] While the Rose blows along the River Brink, |
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Khayyam, Omar [72] Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! |
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Lalan As the man and the woman in me |
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Lalla (Ded, Lal) At the end of a crazy-moon night |
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Lalla (Ded, Lal) I, Lalla, willingly entered through the garden-gate, |
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Lawrence, D. H. God is Born |
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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 Beginners |
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Levertov, Denise Scraps of moon |
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Levertov, Denise The Fountain |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Lu Tung Pin My heart is the clear water in the stony pond. |
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Lu Tung Pin Sojourning in Ta-yu mountains -- |
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Luria, Isaac A Poem for the Small Face |
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Machado, Antonio I dreamt you took me |
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Machado, Antonio Last night, as I was sleeping, |
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Machado, Antonio Lord, You Tore from Me |
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Machado, Antonio Proverbs and Songs |
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Machado, Antonio Songs |
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Machado, Antonio The Waterwheel |
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Mahadevi, Akka It was like a stream |
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Mahadevi, Akka Would a circling surface vulture |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Necklet of Nine Gems |
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Masahide Masahide's Death Poem |
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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 Divine Lovers |
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Mei, Yuan Gone Again to Gaze on the Cascade |
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Mei, Yuan Just Done |
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Mei, Yuan Mad Words |
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Merton, Thomas A Messenger from the Horizon |
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Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks |
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Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City |
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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 Stranger |
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Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings |
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Merton, Thomas When in the soul of the serene disciple |
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Milarepa Song to the Rock Demoness |
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Milarepa The Profound Definitive Meaning |
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Milarepa Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones, |
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Milosz, Czeslaw Forget |
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Mirabai Clouds -- |
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Mirabai The Dagger |
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Nachmanides (Nachman, Moses ben) The Soul Speaks (from Hymn on the Fate of the Soul) |
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Namdev He is the One in many, |
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Namdev Laughing and playing, I came to Your Temple, O Lord. |
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Namdev The drum with no drumhead beats; |
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Nanak, Guru [Siri ragu 9.3] The guru is the stepping stone, |
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Naropa Advice to Marpa Lotsawa |
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Naropa The Summary of Mahamudra |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin Both worlds within my compass come, but this world cannot compass me. |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin I take the Merciful Onešs shape, the Merciful I am. |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence. What I saw |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah The Sea Is Our Essence |
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Neruda, Pablo Gautama Christ |
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Neruda, Pablo Past |
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Neruda, Pablo The Poet's Obligation |
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Neruda, Pablo Too Many Names |
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Nevins, Shawn A lake reflecting trees, |
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Nevins, Shawn A simple gate of logs |
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Nevins, Shawn Come deeper with me |
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Novalis Over I journey |
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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 Beannacht / Blessing |
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Oliver, Colin Become Nothing |
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Oliver, Colin Cold Mountain |
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Oliver, Colin Endpoem |
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Oliver, Mary Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? |
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Oliver, Mary In Blackwater Woods |
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Oliver, Mary Spring |
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Oliver, Mary The Ponds |
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Oliver, Mary This World |
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Oliver, Mary Wild Geese |
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Oliver, Mary Yes! No! |
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Pampattic Cittar Like the drops of water that will not adhere to the leaf of the lotus |
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Pampattic Cittar One must delve deep |
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Pattinattar The eightfold Yoga |
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Po, Li Autumn River Song |
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Po, Li Clearing at Dawn |
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Po, Li Parting |
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Po, Li The Cold Clear Spring at Nanyang |
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Po, Li Visiting a Taoist on Taitien Mountain |
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Po, Li You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, |
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Porete, Marguerite How Truth Praises Such Souls |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) I carry a torch in one hand |
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Rabjampa, Longchen An Adamantine Song on the Ever-Present |
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Ram Tzu (Liquorman, Wayne) You think of the Path |
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Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe, |
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Ramananda Raga Basant |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Conquer Death with the drumbeat Ma! Ma! Ma! |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara -- |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Love Her, Mind; |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Of what use is my going to Kasi any more? |
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Rasakhan Effortless Worship |
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Ravidas When I existed, |
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Ravidas You are me, and I am You |
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Reninger, Elizabeth BirdBath |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Deluge |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria O Lacrimosa |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Silent friend of many distances, feel |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Anticipating the Passion (from The Life of the Virgin Mary) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel lotus! revealing pure nakedness |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (8) Barefoot (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (11) Your nakedness (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (13) Spring Showers (from Year of the Goddess) |
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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 Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Suddenly, in the sky at dawn, a moon appeared, |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The beauty of the heart |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The glow of the light of daybreak is in your emerald vault, the goblet of the blood of twilight is your blood-measuring bowl. |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The Sun Must Come |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin [1127] I drink streamwater and the air |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin [1652] We are the mirror as well as the face in it. |
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Ryokan First days of spring -- the sky |
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Ryokan Reply to a Friend |
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Ryokan When all thoughts |
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Ryuzan Clear in the blue, the moon! |
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Saadi How could I ever thank my Friend? |
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Saadi Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomfited; |
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San'at, Mohammad 'Aref The Lamp of Your Face |
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Sanai, Hakim Mystic Chat |
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Sanai, Hakim Streaming |
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Sanai, Hakim The Wild Rose of Praise |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud A Drop of Seawater (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Mirror (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Wine of Rapture (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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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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Shih Shu against the gently flowing spring morning |
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Shih Shu as flowing waters disappear into the mist |
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Shih Shu mountain sounds carry a chill wisdom |
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Shih Shu "nothing to do; nothing to lose" |
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Shih-te (Pickup) [5] I live in a place without limits |
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Shikibu, Izumi I cannot say |
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silent lotus Feel the Peace |
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Silesius, Angelus Thou needst not cry to God, |
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Sinan, Ummi The Rose |
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Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak |
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Snyder, Gary For All |
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Snyder, Gary Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout |
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Snyder, Gary On Top |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Thou shalt have no other gods before me. |
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Solovyov, Vladimir All in azure today |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Soseki, Muso Clear Valley |
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Soseki, Muso Old Creek |
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Soseki, Muso Temple of Eternal Light |
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Stein, Edith I Will Remain With You... |
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Stein, Edith Novena Of The Holy Spirit |
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Stevens, Wallace Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
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Sun Buer Gathering the Mind |
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Symeon the New Theologian In the midst of that night, in my darkness, |
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T'ao Ch'ien After Liu Ch'ai-Sang's Poem |
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T'ao Ch'ien Autumn chrysanthemums have beautiful color, |
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Tagore, Rabindranath He's there among the scented trees, (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath I touch God in my song |
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Tagore, Rabindranath Your flute plays the exact notes of my pain. (from The Lover of God) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (75) Thy gifts to us mortals fulfil all our needs (from Gitanjali) |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (103) In one salutation to thee, my God (from Gitanjali) |
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Takahashi, Shinkichi A Wood in Sound |
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Takahashi, Shinkichi Shell |
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Taliesin A Poem for the Wind |
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Teasdale, Sara Peace |
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Teasdale, Sara Dew |
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Teasdale, Sara The Fountain |
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Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tiruvalluvar Truthfulness |
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Traherne, Thomas Love |
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Traherne, Thomas Wonder |
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Tsogyel, Yeshe The Supreme Being is the Dakini Queen of the Lake of Awareness! |
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Tu Fu I Stand Alone |
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Tu Fu Moon, Rain, Riverbank |
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Tu Fu Rain, Four Poems: Two Selections |
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Tukaram All men to me are god-like Gods! |
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Tukaram Thou art more kind than mother dear, |
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Tulsidas The Rainy Season |
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Tulsidas Truth Lies Within |
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Valad, Sultan The Soul That Does not Live in God is not Alive |
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Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch |
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Vaughan, Henry Unprofitableness |
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Vaughan, Henry Vanity of Spirit |
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Vidyapati As the mirror to my hand, |
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Vivekananda, Swami Kali the Mother |
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Vivekananda, Swami Song of the Sanyasin |
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Walters, Dorothy Still Life |
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Walters, Dorothy The Abundance of Brightness |
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Wei, Wang Cooling Off |
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Wei, Wang Drifting on the Lake |
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Wei, Wang Fields and Gardens by the River Qi |
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Wei, Wang Living in the Mountain on an Autumn Night |
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Wei, Wang My Cottage at Deep South Mountain |
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Wei, Wang Stone Gate Temple in the Blue Field Mountains |
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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 [10] Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [17] These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, (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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Whyte, David All the True Vows |
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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 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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Wordsworth, William [12] By one pervading spirit (from The Power of Sound) |
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Yeats, William Butler The Blessed |
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Yeats, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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Yeats, William Butler The Secret Rose |
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Yen-shou, Yung-ming Immovable Mind |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa What bliss at the sight of Thy light! |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [52] From my youth I piled studies upon studies, (from The Shodoka) |
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Yun, Hsu Heart of the Buddha |
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Yun, Hsu Mirror Pond on Mount Taibo in Shanxi |
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Yung Chia (Chueh, Hsuan) In my early years, I set out to acquire learning, (from The Song of Enlightenment) |
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Yung Chia (Chueh, Hsuan) Roll the Dharma thunder, (from The Song of Enlightenment) |
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Zohar (de Leon, Moses) The Creation of Elohim |
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Zorman, Alenka to centennial rocks |
