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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
Saadi, Idries Shah · 245 pages
Faust: First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 327 pages
A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations
Hafez · 417 pages
The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
Robert Alter · 518 pages
One of Newsweek’s Best Books of the Year and winner of the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement. A cornerstone of the scriptural canon, the Book of Psalms has been a source of solace and joy for countless readers over millennia. This timeless poetry is beautifully wrought by a scholar whose translation of the Five Books of Moses was hailed as a “godsend” by Seamus Heaney and a “masterpi
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
Kabir · 71 pages
Theogony/Works and Days
Hesiod · 99 pages
Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world. Includes Hesiod's "Works and Days", lines 1-201, and material from the Library of Apollodorus.
Shikwa and Jawab-i-Shikwa: Iqbal's Dialogue with Allah
Muhammad Iqbal · 96 pages
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
John Milton · 400 pages
The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory
Dante Alighieri · 258 pages
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
Han Shan · 309 pages
The Love Poems of Rumi
Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi · 64 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
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer · 506 pages
A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, Hous
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Basho Matsuo · 167 pages
The Way of Chuang Tzu
Thomas Merton, Zhuangzi · 159 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 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
Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
Daniel Ladinsky · 381 pages
Genesis of these poems. Rabia -- St. Francis of Assisi -- Rumi -- Meister Eckhart -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Hafiz -- St. Catherine of Siena -- Kabir -- Mira -- St. Teresa of Avila -- St. John of the Cross -- Tukaram.
The Complete English Poems
George Herbert · 462 pages
Presents a selection of Herbert's Latin verse with English translation along with selections of his prose pieces. George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language. His deceptively simple verse uses the ingenious arguments typical of seventeenth-century 'metaphysical' poets, and unusua