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Birds

 

 

 

The ability of birds to fly makes them a common symbol within sacred poetry. They are often used to symbolize the soul, particularly by the Sufi poets.

Poems with the theme of Birds

  Adyashanti Today I Awoke
  Arapaho (Anonymous) Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs
  Ashford, Eric Morning Market
  Attar, Farid ud-Din The Simurgh
  Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale
  Attar, Farid ud-Din The Hawk
  Attar, Farid ud-Din The Vain Bird
  Attar, Farid ud-Din The Birds Find Their King
  Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks
  ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium
  Blake, William Auguries of Innocence
  Brabazon, Francis Once God, that Great Being, (from Stay With God)
  Colonna, Vittoria da I live on this depraved and lonely cliff
  Dickinson, Emily [774] It is a lonesome Glee --
  Dogen One of six verses on snow:
  Ganjavi, Mahsati A world there is for those in love with mines of precious stones,
  Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king
  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang The Second Poem the Night-Walker Wrote
  Granger, Ivan M. Twelve Ways to Lose Your Head on Maui
  Granger, Ivan M. rock doves mourn
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) A Crystal Rim
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Geronimo
  Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Source
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Please Call Me by My True Names
  Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) The Throne of Glory Addresses the King
  Herbert, George Prayer (I)
  Hildegard of Bingen Columba aspexit / Sequence for Saint Maximin
  Holmes, Dick Words Call to You
  Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Bright are Thy tresses, brighten them even more, (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
  Islam, Nazrul Come silently like the Moon
  Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn
  Jacobsen, Rolf Guardian Angel
  Jacobsen, Rolf The Silence Afterwards
  Jayadeva [2] You rest on the circle of Sri's breast, (from The Gitagovinda)
  Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The mountain stands steady in its grandeur,
  Khayyam, Omar [7] Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
  Lawrence, D. H. God is Born
  Lawrence, D. H. Self Pity
  Lee, Li-Young Out of Hiding
  Lee, Li-Young Praise Them
  Leon, Luis de The Life Removed
  Levertov, Denise Illustrious Ancestors
  Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved)
  Mahadevi, Akka You are the forest
  Masahide When bird passes on --
  Mathias, Michael The Tower of Silence
  Mathias, Michael (6) Ramana Seeks out the Mountain of Arunachala (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  Mathias, Michael (10) The Tree of Kabbalah - The Kiss (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  Mathias, Michael (13) Jalal's Search for Jamal and the Mystical Tree (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree)
  Mechthild of Magdeburg A fish cannot drown in water,
  Mechthild of Magdeburg Effortlessly,
  Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead
  Merton, Thomas A Psalm
  Merton, Thomas Aubade -- The City
  Merton, Thomas Night-Flowering Cactus
  Merton, Thomas O Sweet Irrational Worship
  Merton, Thomas Stranger
  Merton, Thomas The Sowing of Meanings
  Meshullam da Piera Song at Dawn
  Milosz, Czeslaw This Only
  Mirabai Unbreakable, O Lord,
  Oliver, Colin Air
  Oliver, Mary Can You Imagine?
  Oliver, Mary This World
  Po, Li Self-Abandonment
  Po, Li The birds have vanished into the sky,
  Rilke, Rainer Maria Ah, not to be cut off,
  Rilke, Rainer Maria Dove that ventured outside
  Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies)
  Rilke, Rainer Maria What birds plunge through is not the intimate space
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (7) Were I a little bird (from Year of the Goddess)
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (8) Barefoot (from Year of the Goddess)
  Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean
  Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363)
  Ryokan The winds have died, but flowers go on falling;
  Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters
  Shih Shu mountain sounds carry a chill wisdom
  Surdas Krishna Awakes
  T'ao Ch'ien Unsettled, a bird lost from the flock --
  Takahashi, Shinkichi Destruction
  Teasdale, Sara The Fountain
  Tu Fu Rain, Four Poems: Two Selections
  Tulsidas The Rainy Season
  Vidyapati All my inhibition left me in a flash,
  Yeats, William Butler Sailing to Byzantium
  Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [48] In the sandalwood forest, there is no other tree. (from The Shodoka)


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