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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorFaust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
The Dhammapada
Anonymous · 112 pages
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 336 pages
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his ban
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake · 51 pages
William Blake, an English poet, painter, and printmaker, wrote a sequence of poems titled "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" that mimicked biblical prophesy. Blake, who was mostly ignored during his lifetime, is now regarded as a key influence in the development of Romantic-era poetry and visual art. Blake's deeply held Romantic and revolutionary views are expressed throughout the text. The theme
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 415 pages
**Leaves of Grass** is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. First published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and rewriting *Leaves of Grass*, revising it multiple times until his death. There have been held to be either six or nine individual editions of Leaves of Grass, the count varying depending on how they are distinguished.[2] This resulted in vastly
Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot · 44 pages
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam · 109 pages
Blue/Green Hardcover, pasted illustrations believed to be done by Willy Pogany, no pub. date, Thomas Crowell New York. Cover has gold decor.small miniature book. Written by Edward Fitzgerald.
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri · 288 pages
Dante, after becoming lost on the path of life, is led by Virgil into Hell to begin his journey back to the light of God.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 327 pages
Tao te Ching
老子, Yang Peng, Jordi Fibla · 120 pages
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Shafak, lyf shfq · 354 pages
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Basho Matsuo · 167 pages
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Rainer Maria Rilke · 216 pages
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw t
Poems New and Collected
Wislawa Szymborska · 296 pages
The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi · 223 pages
Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America's bestselling poet Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks' delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. 'There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them.' Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds –
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
John Donne · 871 pages
This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her," and "To His Mistris Going to Bed." Presented as well are Donne's satires, epigrams, verse letters, and holy s
Thirst
Mary Oliver · 79 pages
In this collection of 43 new poems the author grapples with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years. She strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving and not it end. She also chronicles for the first time her discovery of faith, without abandoning the love of the physical world that has been a hallmark of her work for four decades.
The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
Santideva · 224 pages
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
Saadi, Idries Shah · 245 pages
Gitanjali: Song Offerings
Rabindranath Tagore · 86 pages
Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in Indian (and more specifically Bengali) literary history, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian—indeed, the first person outside Europe—to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, largely in recognition of his “spiritual offering of songs,” Gitanjali . Tagore himself translated the poems from the original Bengali, taking many liberties in the p
The Way of Chuang Tzu
Thomas Merton, Zhuangzi · 159 pages