ENLIGHTENED HEART, T

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Harper Collins, 1993 M08 20 - 192 pages
An anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to the bestselling Tao Te Ching.

• The Upanishads • The Book of Psalms • Lao-tzu • The Bhagavad Gita • Chuang-tzu • The Odes of Solomon • Seng-ts'an • Han-shan • Li Po • Tu Fu • Layman P'ang • Kukai • Tung-shan • Symeon the New Theologian • Izumi Shikibu • Su Tung-p'o • Hildegard of Bingen • Francis of Assisi • Wu-men • DÕgen • Rumi • Mechthild of Magdeburg • Dante • Kabir Mirabai • William Shakespeare • George Herbert • Bunan • Gensei • Angelus Silesius • Thomas Traherne • Basho • William Blake • RyÕkan • Issa • Ghalib • Bibi Hayati • Wait Whitman • Emily Dickinson • Gerard Manley Hopkins • Uvavnuk • Anonymous Navaho • W. B. Yeats • Antonio Machado • Rainer Maria Rilke • Wallace Stevens • D.H. Lawrence • Robinson Jeffers •

 

Contents

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 15641616
80
GEORGE HERBERT 15931633
81
BUNAN 16031676
85
GENSEI 16231668
86
ANGELUS SILESIUS 16241677
87
THOMAS TRAHERNE 16371674
90
BASHŌ 16441694
92
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827
94

LI PO 701762
31
TU FU 711770
33
LAYMAN PANG c 740808
34
KŪKAI 774835
36
TUNGSHAN 807869
37
SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN 9491022
38
IZUMI SHIKIBU 9741034
40
SU TUNGPO 10361101
41
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN 10981179
42
FRANCIS OF ASSISI 11811226
43
WUMEN 11831260
45
DŌGEN 12001253
49
RUMI 12071273
51
MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG 12101297
64
DANTE 12651321
67
KABIR 14401518
70
MIRABAI C 14981546
77
RYŌKAN 17581831
96
ISSA 17631827
99
GHALIB 17971869
102
BIBI HAYATI ?1853
107
WALT WHITMAN 18191892
108
EMILY DICKINSON 18301886
113
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS 18441889
118
UVAVNUK MID19THEARLY 2OTH CENTURY
123
ANONYMOUS NAVAHO 19TH1OTH CENTURY
124
WB YEATS 18651939
125
ANTONIO MACHADO 18751939
129
RAINER MARIA RILKE 18751926
131
WALLACE STEVENS 18791955
148
DH LAWRENCE 18851930
153
ROBINSON JEFFERS 18871962
154
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Page 110 - I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud...
Page 120 - Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings; Landscape plotted and pieced— fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; Fie fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.
Page 80 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 109 - I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
Page 118 - As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

About the author (1993)

Stephen Mitchell's many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel.

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