 | The Soul is here for its own joy : sacred poems from many cultures by Robert Bly | DromJohn | Starting on the path, The Footprint, Ghalib, Sunset, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Name, Tomas Tranströmer, We thirst at first, Emily Dickinson, from Like to the arctic needle, Francis Quarles, This cloud, Dogen, Lord you called, Anonymous, In this town, A Remembrance is moving, Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Scattered congregation, Friend it's time, Ansari, A Voice, William Butler Yeats, Maybe, Mary Oliver, As kingfishers catch fire, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Written on a monastery wall, Li Shang-Yin, Our journey had advanced, The Starlight night, Sometimes a man, Rainbow at night, Antonio Machado, Longing for the garden, Heaven-haven: a nun takes the veil, from The Garden, Andrew Marvell, Is my soul asleep?, The Dweller, Robert Bly, If you could turn your heart, Angelius Silesius, O God our help in ages past, Isaac Watts, Remorse, Whoever grasps, I have many brothers in the south, It is an honorable thought, Introduction, William Blake, Jerusalem, The Habit of perfection, The wind one brilliant day, Sorrow it is not true that I know you, The Pulley, George Herbert, from The Hymn of Jesus, From the Acts of John, Loss of memory, Kathleen Raine, God's grandeur, Pied beauty, I'm ceded -- I've stopped being their's --, Come to the orchard in spring, Rumi, The Question of greed and constant hunger, Breaking the dragon, A Small green island, The Snake-catcher and the frozen snake, Bread, The Animal soul, Four questions, Lalla, Men and women now, Sometimes I forget completely, from Divine meditations: Sonnet I, John Donne, Raise me up lord, Miguel de Guevara, I was a stricken deer, William Cowper, Jesus on the lean donkey, Who makes these changes?, Difficulties, Kabir, What I said to the wanting-creature, And where is he?, Twenty poems of Kabir, The Flute, The Spinning wheel, The Time before death, The Hearse, The Caller, The Pitcher, The Failure, The Swan, The Cloth, Breath, Music, The Clay jug, The Swing, The Unknown flute, The Sound, Why should we part!, A Place to sit, Rice, Sound of seashells, The Boat, God is the feminine, To nature, Orphic hymn, You are the future, Prayer to the mother, Apuleius, White buffalo woman, John G. Neihardt, I sing of a maiden, For the flowers are great blessings, Christopher Smart, To Aphrodite of the flowers at Knossos, Sappho, Lord help me, French medieval prayer, from Random thoughts on the love of God, Simone Weil, The Red goddess (Laksmi), from Hymn to Tirumal, There is a lake, Your way of knowing, You were once a swan, The Goddess, Théodore de Banville, To Juan at the winter solstice, Robert Graves, Love's maturity, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Knowing love in herself, Briefly it enters and briefly speaks, Jane Kenyon, Sonnet XII, Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Mysterious remain, H. D., A Flower no more than itself, Linda Gregg, There is no one, Edith Södergran, Lay your head, Lakshminkara, How shall I begin my song?, Owl Woman, In praise of Sophia, from Proverbs 3:11-20, A Herd of Does, Hugh MacDiarmid, Loving God through loving a woman or a man, The Visit of the beloved, Ibn Hazm, Separation by death, Chastity, Ibn Faraj, Two poems by Rumi, In the great sweetness of the spring, Guillaume IX of Poitiers, A Certain knight, The Countess of Die, When the days grow long in May, Jaufre Rudel, The Woman I adore, Dante Alighieri, The Meeting missed, Rabindranath Tagore, For the goddess of love, Dusk, The Message, Twenty poems of Rumi, Love dogs, Say yes quickly, The Instruments, On Resurrection day, I have such a teacher, These spiritual windowshoppers, Who says words with my mouth?, A Chickpea leaps, The Force of friendship, Someone digging in the ground, Names, The Edge of the roof, Praising manners, Eating poetry, Idle questions, The Mill the stone and the water, The Drunkards, That Journeys are good, Longing for the birds of Solomon, The Hawk, Leaving the body or entering it?, His hair, Mirabai, Don't go don't go, Where did you go?, O my friends, I was going to the river for water, Faithfulness, All I was doing was breathing, Why Mira can't go back to her old house, The Clouds, It's true I went to the market, The Music, The Coffer with the poisonous snake, The Heat of midnight tears, When do I join you?, Mahadeviyakka, The Sea moves around sea-creatures, Yidyapati, The Girl and the woman, The soul like the moon, Ghazal 96, Bibi Hayati Kermani, The Shulamite, Else Lasker-Schüler, Wild nights -- wild nights!, The Dark night, St. John of the Cross, Dying to this world, The Holy longing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Second poem the night-walker wrote, Coming or going, To the tree-brother with a few days left, René Char, The Windhover, Bread and wine part 7, Friedrich Hölderlin, A Dialogue between God and the soul, I came to love you too late, St. Augustine, The Hole in the basket, Bhartrihari, Leave me o love, Sir Philip Sidney, A Dialogue between the soul and body, Daybreak, Galway Kinnell, from Praise for death, Donald Hall, Glory to thee my god this night, Thomas Ken, The Old Lutheran bells at home, Wallace Stevens, Roll call, William Stafford, Merlin's riddling, Alfred Lord Tennyson, I think the hemlock, Wind will blow it all away, Margaret of Navarre, The Spirit -- who is a guest of the soul -- will never be at home on this Earth, Night and sleep, The Jar with the dry rim, The Newborn, Attar, When the one I love, Hafez, The Lost daughter, The Garden, The Grace of the teacher, The Pearl on the ocean floor, Joseph the lost will return, I am not I, Oceans, Conversations in the mountains, Li Po, All the fruit, from Proverbs and tiny songs, Sssh, Rolf Jacobsen, I find you in all things of the world, Last night as I was sleeping, Voyages II, Hart Crane, urj, urs, dsp |
