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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said A pious one with a hundred beads on your rosary |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Detached You are, even from your being |
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AE (Russell, George William) The Unknown God |
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Akha What could be the Other when First is naught? |
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Andal Fair mothers, my sweet ambrosia (from Nacciyar Tirumoli) |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Empty Me of Everything But Your Love |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din You need patience for this quest |
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Aulia, Hazrat Nizamuddin In Allah's garden you gather roses, |
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Badakhshani, Binavi Clear Wine |
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Bahu, Sultan So what if love's idol is hidden? One's heart will never be far away |
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Basava The pot is a God |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Beni Raga Ramkali |
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Bhawani, Rupa I dashed down into the nether regions and brought the vital breath up |
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Bitkoff, Stewart Desert Tears |
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Bitkoff, Stewart The Religions |
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Booth, Philip First Lesson |
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Booth, Philip How to See a Deer |
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Bulleh Shah Bulleh! to me, I am not known |
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Bulleh Shah He Who is Stricken by Love |
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Bulleh Shah Your love has made me dance all over |
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Carpenter, Edward The Central Calm |
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Chiyo-ni, Fukuda From the mind |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan |
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Dickinson, Emily I taste a liquor never brewed |
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Dickinson, Emily Between the form of Life and Life |
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Efendi, Seyh Ibrahim The Sufi Way |
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Eldar Edda (Anonymous) Odin's Shaman Song (from Eldar Edda) |
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Emre, Yunus I haven't come here to settle down |
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Emre, Yunus One Who Is Real Is Humble |
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Emre, Yunus The drink sent down from Truth |
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Emre, Yunus The Truth fills the world |
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Galib, Seyh Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth |
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Gascoigne, Dame Catherine One thing alone I crave / Unum sit mihi totum |
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Gibran, Kahlil Giving |
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Gibran, Kahlil Pain |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von I hurry off to drink eternal light (from Faust) |
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Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 9: you you |
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Gyatso, Chone Lama Lodro A Dance of Unwavering Devotion |
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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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Hafiz A New World |
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Hafiz Beauty Radiated in Eternity |
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Hafiz Cupbearer, it is morning, fill my cup with wine |
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Hafiz Hair disheveled, smiling lips, sweating and tipsy |
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Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
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Hafiz O Saghi, pass around that cup of wine, then bring it to me |
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Hafiz Sun Rays |
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Hafiz The Essence of Grace |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Still Cup |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Why Aren't We Screaming Drunks? |
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Hallaj, Mansur al- Your spirit is mingled with mine |
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Hamadani, Ayn al-Qozat As Long as I Live |
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Han-Ch'ing, Kuan Idle Wandering |
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Han-Ch'ing, Kuan this autumn scene's worth words paint |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Contemplation |
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Hayati, Bibi How can I see the splendor of the moon |
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Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power |
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Hildegard von Bingen O Euchari in leta via / Sequence for Saint Eucharius |
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Hirshfield, Jane A Hand |
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Hirshfield, Jane Rebus |
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Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia / Yoka Genkaku [7] Release your hold on earth, water, fire, wind (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 al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself (from The Poem of the Sufi Way) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar In memory of the beloved (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar They say to me: "Do describe it (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Come to me at dawn, my beloved, and go with me |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon Lord of the World |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad O Cup-bearer! Give me again that wine of love for Thee (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin In the street of wineshops, when |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love the phoenix cannot be trapped |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin O saki, fill a cup |
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Islam, Nazrul Let's Meet Hereafter! |
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Izzet, Asik Ali The Path of the Beautiful |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) As air carries light poured out by the rising sun |
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Jami, Ahmad Even from earthly love thy face avert not |
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Janabai There is nothing empty of divine |
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Jayadeva My heart values his vulgar ways (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva Raga Maru |
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Jnaneshwar The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav) |
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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 Many hoped |
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Kabir The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) What mind can possibly approach you |
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Khayyam, Omar [2] Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky |
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Khayyam, Omar [5] Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose |
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Khayyam, Omar [20] Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears |
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Khayyam, Omar [21] Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and best |
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Khayyam, Omar [30] What, without asking, hither hurried whence? |
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Khayyam, Omar [39] How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit |
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Khayyam, Omar [40] You know, my Friends, how long since in my House |
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Khayyam, Omar [42 - later edition] Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit |
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Khayyam, Omar [43] The Grape that can with Logic absolute |
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Khayyam, Omar [47] And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press |
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Khayyam, Omar [55] The Vine has struck a fiber: which about |
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Khayyam, Omar [67] Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide |
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Khayyam, Omar [71] And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel |
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Khusrow Dehlawi, Amir Just a Glance |
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Lalla I wore myself out, looking for myself |
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Lalla What is worship? Who are this man |
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Lawrence, D. H. Glory |
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Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms |
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Levertov, Denise The Fountain |
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Li Bai Alone and Drinking Under the Moon |
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Li Bai If High Heaven had no love for wine |
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Li Bai Self-Abandonment |
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Li Bai To Tu Fu from Shantang |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Lu Tung Pin The Hundred Character Tablet (Bai Zi Bei) |
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Machado, Antonio Siesta |
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Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin Invisible Caravans |
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Maghribi, Muhammad Shirin O End of Every Beginning |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah Find a pure wine and the party of the drunkard |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah Go to the Winery and exchange your robe for a drink of wine |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah The light of the beloved rises from the horizon of my heart |
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Maharshi, Ramana Disrobe, show Your beauty (from The Marital Garland of Letters) |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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McCombs, Chris Come Have a Drink |
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McCombs, Chris Roos O Shab |
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McCombs, Chris The Tavern |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg In pride I so easily lost Thee |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Yea! I shall drink from Thee |
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Meher Baba How Wonderful is the murderous mercy of God! |
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Merton, Thomas A Practical Program for Monks |
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Merton, Thomas A Psalm |
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Milarepa Response to a Logician |
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Milarepa The Song of Food and Dwelling |
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Milarepa The Song on Reaching the Mountain Peak |
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Milarepa Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones |
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Milosz, Czeslaw A Song on the End of the World |
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Milosz, Czeslaw On Pilgrimage |
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Mirabai I am pale with longing for my beloved |
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Mirabai The Music |
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Misri, Dhun-Nun al- The haunt of the hearts of the gnostics |
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Muktananda, Swami Mukteshwari |
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Namdev Laughing and playing, I came to Your Temple, O Lord |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin At love's most sumptuous feast was I with love made drunk |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin I take the Merciful One's shape, the Merciful I am |
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Nawaz, Gharib The Second Jesus |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah The Sea Is Our Essence |
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Neruda, Pablo Poetry |
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Neruda, Pablo The Poet's Obligation |
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Niffari (an-Niffari, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan) Stand at the throne (from The Standing Of the Presence Chamber and the Letter) |
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O'Brian, Ellen Grace In the Heart is a Well |
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O'Brian, Ellen Grace Sandhya |
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Plunkett, Joseph Mary The Splendour of God |
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Qushayri The round of a cup |
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Qushayri Your waking through my words to you |
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Rahman Baba Soul Train |
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Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) I drink no ordinary wine |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara |
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Ramsay, Jay Infinity and Beyond |
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Rasakhan Nectar Radha |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Dawn |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Gong |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (8) Barefoot (from Year of the Goddess) |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin At night we fall into each other with such grace |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin I drink streamwater and the air |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Now comes the final merging |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin The beauty of the heart |
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Rumi, Mevlana 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, Mevlana Jelaluddin The grapes of my body can only become wine |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin You only need smell the wine |
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Rumi, Mevlana Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Ryokan The Autumn Moon |
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Sanai, Hakim Melt yourself down in this search |
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Sanai, Hakim When he admits you to his presence |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Sarmad He is happy on account of my humble self |
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Schneider, Pat The Patience of Ordinary Things |
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Schuon, Frithjof Heart's Wisdom |
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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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Shankara The Shattering of Illusion (Moha Mudgaram from The Crest Jewel of Discrimination) |
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Sinan, Ummi The Rose |
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Singh, Darshan How should I tell of the feeling that reigns |
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Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders! |
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Snyder, Gary Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout |
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Stein, Edith I Will Remain With You... |
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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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Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Traherne, Thomas Love |
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Trungpa, Chogyam Purifying and Invoking the Four Directions |
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Tukaram Can water drink itself? |
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Underhill, Evelyn Dynamic Love |
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Vivekananda Song of the Sanyasin |
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Walters, Dorothy The Winemakers |
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Walters, Dorothy Whoever Went In |
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Yeats, William Butler A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety |
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Yeats, William Butler The Blessed |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Samadhi |
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Yun-k'an Tzu done with the world |