Music of the Sky An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry

by Laude, Patrick; McDonald, Barry

• ISBN13: 9780941532457
• ISBN10: 0941532453
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-13
• Publisher: World Wisdom

Summary

The short poems in this book reflect the spiritual insights of some of the greatest poets, saints, and sages know to Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Native American traditions.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Barry McDonald
Introduction	1	(16)
Patrick Laude
Part I: Dust from the Whirlwind
Paiute
Song of the Ghost Dance	17	(1)
Cheyenne
``Nothing lives long''	18	(1)
Chief Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot
``What is life?''	19	(1)
Wintu
You and I Shall Go	20	(1)
Giun
``All doctrines split asunder''	21	(1)
Kigen
``Seventy-one!''	22	(1)
Kozan Ichikyo
``Empty-handed I entered the world''	23	(1)
ISSA
``The pure morning dew''	24	(1)
Han Shan
``Story on story of wonderful hills and stream''	25	(1)
Ryokan
``Walking along a narrow path at the foot of a mountain''	26	(1)
Rengetsu
``Eternal spring wind''	27	(1)
Ryushu
``Why bother with the world?''	28	(1)
Chong Ch'ol
``A dash of rain upon''	29	(1)
Lalla Yogishwari
``By the highway of Release I came''	30	(1)
Bengali Hymn
``Mother! Mother! My boat sinks in the ocean of this world''	31	(1)
Bengali Hymn to Kali
``Because Thou lovest the Burning-ground''	32	(1)
Akka Mahadevi
``O mother, I have fallen in love''	33	(1)
Tulsidas
``You are kind, I am the pitiable one''	34	(1)
Mirabai
``Guide this little boat''	35	(1)
Rabindranath Tagore
``Don't let go, hold on tight''	36	(1)
``O now beneath your feet's dust''	37	(1)
Yunus Emre
``How many in this life can never''	38	(1)
Ansari
``If thou canst walk on water''	39	(1)
Rumi
``I died as mineral and became a plant''	40	(1)
```Needs must I tear them out,' the peacock cried''	41	(1)
Omar Khayyam
``Old tent-maker, your body is a tent''	42	(1)
``Last night I dropped and smashed my porcelain bowl''	43	(1)
Abu'l-Husayn Al-Nuri
``I had supposed that, having passed away''	44	(1)
Shabistari
``As the Arab racer needs not the whip''	45	(1)
Angelus Silesius
``Even God must die, if He wishes to live for thee''	46	(1)
Petrarch
``The chosen angels and the blessed souls''	47	(1)
``I go my way regretting those past times''	48	(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh
``What is our life? A play of passion''	49	(1)
Robert Herrick
``O Years! and Age! Farewell''	50	(1)
John Donne
``Death be not proud''	51	(1)
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
``When as Man's life, the light of human lust''	52	(1)
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury
To His Watch, When He Could Not Sleep	53	(1)
William Shakespeare
``The expense of spirit in a waste of shame''	54	(1)
Novalis
``The times are all so fearful!''	55	(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Self-Knowledge	57	(1)
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Uphill	58	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Because I Could Not Stop For Death	59	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke
Autumn	60	(1)
Frithjof Schuon
The Island	61	(1)
Confession	62	(3)
Part II: A Garden Amidst Flames
Ibn `Arabi
``O marvel! A garden amidst flames!''	65	(1)
Ahmad Al-'Alawi
Layla	66	(2)
Omar Khayyam
``The secret longings of a learned man''	68	(1)
Rumi
``A man knocked at the door of his beloved''	69	(1)
The Song of the Reed	70	(1)
The Unseen Power	71	(1)
``And this is love---''	72	(1)
Yunus Emre
``Whatever I say, You are the subject''	73	(1)
``Do you know, my friends, where the real saints are?''	74	(1)
``Let the deaf listen to the mute''	75	(1)
Lalla Yogishwari
``Lady, rise and offer to the Name''	76	(1)
```Think not on the things that are without'''	77	(1)
Utpaladeva
``He who utters the name of Shiva''	78	(1)
Mirabai
``Yogin, don't go---''	79	(1)
``Binding my ankles with silver''	80	(1)
Rabindranath Tagore
``God of the silent soul''	81	(1)
St. John of the Cross
``On a dark night''	82	(2)
Mechthild of Magdeburg
``I cannot dance O Lord, unless Thou lead me''	84	(1)
``Ah! God-loving soul! In thy struggles''	85	(1)
Dante Alighieri
``As I rode out one day not long ago''	86	(1)
St. Francis of Assisi
Canticle of the Sun	87	(2)
Dante Alighieri
``Love and the noble heart are but one thing''	89	(1)
Inca
``With rejoicing mouth''	90	(1)
Zuni
``That our earth mother may wrap herself''	91	(1)
Sioux
I Pass the Pipe	92	(1)
Saichi
``O Saichi, where is the Land of Bliss?''	93	(1)
``Wind and air are two''	94	(1)
``I am a happy man, indeed!''	95	(1)
Ippen
``Among all living things---''	96	(1)
Tz'u-Min
``The Buddha, in the causal stage''	97	(1)
Yosano Akiko
``Amidst the notes''	98	(1)
Han Shan
``If you're looking for a place to rest''	99	(1)
Huynh Sanh Thong
``Where gather mists and clouds, a happy world''	100	(1)
Moritake
``Today''	101	(1)
George Herbert
Love	102	(1)
Prayer	103	(1)
John Donne
``Batter my heart, three-personed God''	104	(1)
Robert Herrick
``Lord, I am like to Mistletoe''	105	(1)
Friedrich Holderlin
``The lines of life are various; they diverge and cease''	106	(1)
William Blake
The Divine Image	107	(1)
Novalis
``When in hours of fear and failing''	108	(1)
Edward Dowden
Love's Lord	109	(1)
John Bannister Tabb
All in All	110	(1)
Elsa Barker
Who Knows Love	111	(1)
Frithjof Schuon
The Name	112	(1)
The Drink	113	(4)
Part III: The Single Light
Meister Eckhart
``This desert is the Good''	117	(1)
Mechthild of Magdeburg
``Of the heavenly things God has shown me''	118	(1)
Angelus Silesius
``Eternal Wisdom builds''	119	(1)
Omar Khayyam
``Lift up the cup and bowl, my darling one''	120	(1)
Rumi
```Tis light makes color visible: at night''	121	(1)
```Twas a fair orchard, full of trees and fruit''	122	(1)
Yunus Emre
``Ask of all those who know''	123	(1)
Shabistari
``On the narrow path of Truth''	124	(1)
``In Being's silver sea''	125	(1)
```I' and `you' are but the lattices''	126	(1)
``Ponder on God's mercies''	127	(1)
Levi Yitzchak of Berditchov
``Where I wander---You!''	128	(1)
Judah He-Hasid
Hymn of Glory for the Sabbath	129	(1)
Ortha Nan Gaidheal
Song to the Sun	130	(1)
Mescalero Apache
Dawn Song	131	(1)
Eskimo
Song	132	(1)
Pygmy
``In the beginning was God''	133	(1)
Dogen
``There in midnight water''	134	(1)
``To what shall''	135	(1)
``Attaining the heart''	136	(1)
``Not limited''	137	(1)
Ryokwan
``At Kugami''	138	(1)
Muso Soseki
Snow	139	(1)
Spring Cliff	140	(1)
Sodo
``The question clear, the answer deep''	141	(1)
Chin' Gak
``For no reason it rains''	142	(1)
Tu Fu
Full Moon	143	(1)
Feng Kan
``Only this''	144	(1)
Pai-Chu-I
``Flowers not flowers, fog not fog''	145	(1)
Seng-Ts'an
``One in All''	146	(1)
Kanakadasa
``Sweetness is in sugar, sugar is in sweetness!''	147	(1)
``Are you in illusion or is illusion in you?''	148	(1)
Basavanna
``The pot is a god''	149	(1)
Kabir
``The river and its waves are one surf''	150	(1)
``I laugh when I hear''	151	(1)
``If Allah lives in a mosque''	152	(1)
Sadasiva Brahmendra
``Everything is pervaded by God!''	153	(1)
Lalla Yogishwari
``Lo! a Vision is before mine eyes''	154	(1)
Rabindranath Tagore
``In a crack in the garden wall a flower''	155	(1)
Friedrich Holderlin
Conviction	156	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brahma	157	(1)
Emily Dickinson
``I never saw a moor''	158	(1)
Charles Baudelaire
Elevation	159	(1)
Eva Gore-Booth
The Quest	160	(1)
George Macdonald
Lost and Found	161	(1)
Frithjof Schuon
Immanence	162	(1)
Maya	163	(1)
The Song	164	(3)
Biographical Notes on Selected Poets	167	(12)
Index of Author Names	179	(4)
Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems	183	(6)
Biographical Notes on the Editors	189