The Penguin book of spiritual verse 100 poets on the divine
Book - 2023
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- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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London :
Penguin Classics
2023.
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 400 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBN
- 9780241391594
- Introduction
- Enheduanna, from 'Hymn to Inanna'
- Unknown, 'Death of Enkidu,' from The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Unknown, from The Book of the Dead
- Unknown, Song of Songs, chapters 1 and 2
- King David, Psalm 23
- Homer, from The Odyssey
- Sappho, Fragments 22 and 118
- Patacara, 'When they plow their fields'
- Lao Tzu, 'Easy by Nature', from Tao Te Ching
- Chandaka, Two Cosmologies
- Vyasa, from the Bhagavad Gita
- Lucretius, from The Nature of Things
- Virgil, from The Aeneid
- Shenoute, 'Homily'
- Sengcan, "The Mind of Absolute Trust'
- From the Quran
- Kakinomoto Hitomaro, 'In praise of Empress Jito'
- Li Po, 'Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon'
- Rabi'a al-Basri, 'O my lord'
- Ono No Komachi, 'This inn'
- Hanshan, 'Hanshan's Poem'
- Al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh, 'Names of the Lion'
- Unknown, Anglo-Saxon charm
- Izumi Shikibu, 'Things I Want Decided'
- Li Qingzhao, 'Late Spring'
- Hildegard of Bingen, 'Song to the Creator'
- Mahadeviyakka, 'I do not call it his sign'
- Attar of Nishapur, 'Parable of the Dead Dervishes in the Desert'
- St Francis of Assisi, 'Canticle of the Sun'
- Wumen Huikai, from The Gateless Gate
- Rumi, 'Lift Now the Lid of the Jar of Heaven'
- Mechthild of Magdeburg, 'Of all that God has tshown me'
- Saadi Shirazi, 'The Grass Cried Out'
- Thomas Aquinas, 'Lost, All in Wonder'
- Moses de León, from The Sepher Zohar
- Dante Alighieri, from Inferno, Canto III
- From the Sundiata
- Hafez, Ghazal 17
- Yaqui people, 'Deer Song'
- Nezahualcoyotl, "The Painted Book'
- Kabir, 'Brother, I've seen some'
- Mirabai, 'O friend, understand'
- Yoruba people, from A Recitation of Ifa
- Teresa of Ávila, 'Laughter Came from Every Brick'
- Gaspara Stampa, 'Deeply repentant of my sinful ways'
- St John of the Cross, 'O Love's living flame'
- Mayan people, from the Popol Vuh
- Christopher Marlowe, from Faustus
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146
- John Donne, 'Batter my heart, three-person'd God'
- Nahuatl people, 'The Midwife Addresses the Woman'
- George Herbert, 'Easter Wings'
- Walatta Petros/Gälawdewos, from The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros
- John Milton, from Paradise Lost, Book 4
- Basho, 'Death Song' and 'In Kyoto'
- Juana Inés de la Cruz, 'Suspend, singer swan, the sweet strain'
- Yosa Buson, 'A solitude'
- Olaudah Equiano, 'Miscellaneous Verses'
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'Wanderer's Nightsong II'
- Phillis Wheatley, 'On Virtue'
- William Blake, 'Auguries of Innocence'
- Kobayashi Issa, 'All the time I pray to Buddha'
- John Clare, 'I Am!'
- John Keats, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
- Mirza Ghalib, 'For the Raindrop'
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'Grief'
- Frederick Douglass, 'A Parody'
- Emily Dickinson, 'I prayed, at first, a little Girl'
- Uvavnuk, 'The Great Sea'
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, 'God's Grandeur'
- Rabindranath Tagore, "The Temple of Gold'
- Constantine Cavafy, 'Body, Remember'
- W. B. Yeats, 'The Second Coming'
- Rainer Maria Rilke, 'The Second Duino Elegy'
- Muhammad Iqbal, 'These are the days of lightning'
- Yosano Akiko, 'To punish'
- Sarojini Naidu, 'In the Bazaars of Hyderabad'
- Delmira Agustini, 'Inextinguishables'
- Gabriela Mistral, 'The Return'
- Anna Akhmatova, from 'Requiem'
- Osip Mandelstam, 'O Lord, help me to live through this night'
- Edith Södergran, 'A Life'
- Marina Tsvetaeva, from Poems to Czechia
- María Sabina, from 'The Midnight Velada'
- Xu Zhimo, 'Second Farewell to Cambridge'
- Federico García Lorca, 'Farewell'
- Nâzim Hikmet, 'Things I Didn't Know I Loved'
- Léopold Sédar Senghor, 'Totem'
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz, 'Before You Came'
- Czeslaw Milosz, 'Dedication'
- Edmond Jabès, 'At the Threshold of the Book'
- Aimé Césaire, from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
- Octavio Paz, 'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal, 'Gbd's One Mistake'
- Paul Celan, 'There was Earth in Them'
- Paul Laraque, 'Rainbow'
- Nazik Al-Malaika, 'Love Song for Words'
- Wislawa Szymborska, 'Astonishment'
- Zbigniew Herbert, 'The Envoy of Mr Cogito'
- Yehuda Amichai, 'A Man in His Life'
- Ingeborg Bachmann, 'Every Day'
- Kim Nam-Jo, 'Foreign Flags'
- Kamau Brathwaite, 'Bread'
- Adonis, 'The New Noah'
- Christopher Okigbo, 'Come Thunder'
- Ingrid Jonker, 'There Is Just One Forever'
- Jean Valentine, 'The River at Wolf'
- Kofi Awoonor, 'At the Gates'
- Adélia Prado, 'Dysrhythmia'
- Lucille Clifton, 'my dream about God'
- Vénus Khoury-Ghata, from She Says
- Mahmoud Darwish, 'I Didn't Apologize to the Well'
- M. NourbeSe Philip, from Zong!
- Inrasara, from Allegory of the Land
- Sources
- Acknowledgements
- Index of First Lines
- Index of Titles