ENLIGHTENED HEART, THarper 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
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THE ODES OF SOLOMON 1ST OR 2ND CENTURY | 24 |
SENGTSAN ?606 | 26 |
HANSHAN FL 627649 | 29 |
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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A. J. Arberry Barks with A. J. Barks with John Bashō Bhagavad Gita birds body BOOK OF PSALMS breath Buddha Burton Watson century B.C.E. Chinese Zen Master Chuang-tzu Cold Mountain Coleman Barks Copyright creatures dark Duino Elegy earth edited EMILY DICKINSON emptiness Enlightened Heart eternity eyes fire flower Gensei Ghalib God's grapes turn grass grow heaven immortal inside Issa Jane Hirshfield Japanese John Moyne Kabir Kūkai LAO-TZU living look Lord Master Seung Sahn Mechthild of Magdeburg mind Mirabai moon Moyne and Coleman night peace Poems poet praised RAINER MARIA RILKE Reprinted by permission Robert Bly Robert Hass Rumi Ryōkan Selected Poetry Seng-ts'an Seung Sahn shining sing Sonnets to Orpheus soul stars Stephen Mitchell things Translated by Coleman Translated by Jane Translated by Robert truth Tung-p'o Tung-shan Upanishads Uvavnuk versions W. B. Yeats Wallace Stevens wind WU-MEN Zen Master Seung
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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.