Love Is a Stranger Selected Lyric Poetry of Jelaluddin

by RUMI, JALALUDDIN

• ISBN13: 9781570625275
• ISBN10: 1570625271
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-18
• Publisher: Shambhala

Summary

"Love is a stranger and speaks a strange language," wrote Rumi, one of the world's most beloved mystical poets. His poems of spiritual love still speak directly to our hearts after more than seven hundred years. These classic selections contemplate separation and longing, intoxication and bliss, union and transcendence.

Author Biography

Jalaluddin Rumi (1207–1273) was not only a poet, mystic, and the founder of a Sufi order, he was a man of profound insight into the nature of human existence and possibly the greatest mystical poet of any age.

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(14)
The Ruby	14	(2)
The Root of the Root of Your Self	16	(2)
Love is a Stranger	18	(2)
A New Rule	20	(1)
The Intellectual	21	(1)
Didn't I Say?	22	(1)
On the Deathbed	23	(1)
A House for the Naked	24	(1)
Like Sunlight Upon the Earth	25	(1)
A War Inside	26	(1)
Buy Me From My Words	27	(1)
What a Man Can Say	28	(1)
This Marriage	29	(1)
Clothes Abandoned on the Shore	30	(1)
The Pull of Love	31	(2)
Sweep the Dust off the Sea	33	(2)
And He is With Us	35	(1)
You and I	36	(1)
Search the Darkness	37	(1)
The Ninth Month	38	(1)
This Useless Heart	39	(1)
Expansion and Contraction	40	(4)
The Guest House	44	(5)
The Ruins of the Heart	49	(1)
Song of the Reed	50	(3)
Love is Reckless	53	(1)
When a Man and a Woman Become One	54	(2)
I Am Not	56	(2)
When Names Did Not Exist	58	(1)
To Take a Step Without Feet	59	(1)
The Man of God	60	(1)
A World With No Boundaries	61	(3)
Be Lost in the Call	64	(2)
The House of Love	66	(2)
Elegy for Sana'i	68	(1)
The Inner Garment of Love	69	(3)
This Body is a Rose	72	(2)
Empty the Glass of Your Desire	74	(2)
To Know the Moon and the Sea	76	(1)
A Night for Departure	77	(3)
The Color of Purity	80	(2)
Words of `Ali	82	(2)
The Grave is a Veil	84	(1)
That Which Has no Clue	85	(3)
Appendix	88