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Include books by the same authorGitanjali: 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
Bhagavad Gita
Barbara Stoler Miller, Anonymous
Shikwa and Jawab-i-Shikwa: Iqbal's Dialogue with Allah
Muhammad Iqbal · 96 pages
The Upanishads: Translations from the Sanskrit
Anonymous · 143 pages
"When all the ties that bind the heart are unloosened, then a mortal becomes immortal." The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 BCE by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas -- the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma an
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
Han Shan · 309 pages
I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy
Hafez · 91 pages
From the renowned translator of The Gift, a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readersTo Persians , the poems of Hafiz are not "classical literature" from a remote past but cherished wisdom from a dear and intimate friend that continue to be quoted in daily life. With uncanny insight, Hafiz captures the many forms and stages of love. His poetry outlines the stages of the my
Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz
Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi · 367 pages
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran · 107 pages
Reflections by the Lebanese poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
John Milton · 400 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 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 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
The complete works of Richard Crashaw
Crashaw, Richard · 340 pages
The Orchard: The Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz
Saadi, Idries Shah · 245 pages
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg · 44 pages
"The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1956 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition." "When the book arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with the City Lights Bookstore manager
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins · 155 pages
Wheel-Rim River
Wang Wei; Translated by David Hinton
The Complete Poetry and Prose
William Blake · 218 pages
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