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Dawn

 

 

 

A common experience of high mystical states is the perception of a flood of light. The onrush of light can be intense, almost overwhelming, or it can be gentle and soothing, but it is associated with a radical expansion of awareness that is often compared with waking up, "awakening."

For these reasons, the experience is often compared with the dawn.

See also

Crown
East
Light
Sun
Sun

Poems with the theme of Dawn

  Akha Speaker of truth and the sun -- these two --
  Akha The Essence is only as far away as the sky
  Allama Prabhu Looking for your light,
  Arapaho (Anonymous) Arapaho Ghost Dance Songs
  Ashford, Eric Morning Market
  Attar, Farid ud-Din The pilgrim sees no form but His and knows (from Bou Ali and the Old Woman)
  Attar, Farid ud-Din God Speaks to David
  Aurobindo, Sri Reminiscence
  Berry, Wendell Sabbaths 1999, VII
  Blake, William Auguries of Innocence
  Blake, William Hear the voice of the Bard! (from Songs of Experience)
  Blake, William Of the Sleep of Ulro! and of the passage through (from Jerusalem)
  Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend
  Brabazon, Francis We have waited all night for you, and now the dawn is come.
  Crashaw, Richard To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus
  Dickinson, Emily [174] At last, to be identified!
  Dickinson, Emily [323] As if I asked a common Alms,
  Dickinson, Emily [1053] It was a quiet way --
  Feuerstein, Georg Dawn of Wisdom
  Gibran, Kahlil Prayer (from The Prophet)
  Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king
  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Ha! A rush of bliss (from Faust)
  Granger, Ivan M. Empty Dawn
  Granger, Ivan M. Supper
  Granger, Ivan M. The Warbler Knows
  Hafiz Spring and all its flowers
  Hanh, Thich Nhat Fall Moon Festival
  Hawaiian (Anonymous) Ho'opuka e-ka-la ma ka hikina/The Dawning of Enlightenment
  Hayati, Bibi Is it the night of power
  Hirshfield, Jane The Task
  Ibn al-Farid, Umar From his light, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
  Ibn al-Farid, Umar I sought her from myself, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)
  Ibn al-Farid, Umar In memory of the beloved (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah))
  Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world; (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
  Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
  Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love the phoenix cannot be trapped
  Islam, Nazrul O Nightingale!
  Islam, Nazrul Song of Dawn
  Jimenez, Juan Ramon Who Knows What is Going On
  Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
  Khayyam, Omar [1] AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
  Khayyam, Omar [2] Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky
  Khayyam, Omar [38] One Moment in Annihilation's Waste,
  Khayyam, Omar [53] With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
  Levertov, Denise Celebration
  Machado, Antonio Songs
  Marpa (Lotsawa, Marpa) Realisation of Dreams and Mind
  Merton, Thomas Stranger
  Meshullam da Piera Song at Dawn
  Nasimi, Imadeddin At love's most sumptuous feast was I with love made drunk -
  O'Donohue, John May the light of your soul guide you.
  O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved
  Oliver, Mary Sunrise
  Oliver, Mary This World
  Osborne, Arthur Be Still
  Po, Li Clearing at Dawn
  Qushayri When morning arose
  Rahman Baba Soul Train
  Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) So I say: Mind, don't you sleep
  Reninger, Elizabeth Dawn
  Reninger, Elizabeth Late Autumn
  Reninger, Elizabeth splash
  Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile
  Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies)
  Rilke, Rainer Maria We are the driving ones.
  Rosenstock, Gabriel (10) I carved a wind-harp (from Uttering Her Name)
  Rumi, Jelaluddin Ah, what was there in that light-giving candle that it set fire to the heart, and snatched the heart away?
  Rumi, Jelaluddin Inner Wakefulness
  Rumi, Jelaluddin The glow of the light of daybreak is in your emerald vault, the goblet of the blood of twilight is your blood-measuring bowl.
  Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363)
  Shih Shu against the gently flowing spring morning
  Singh, Darshan At dusk, at dawn I gaze upon your beauty --
  Singh, Darshan How should I tell of the feeling that reigns
  Singh, Darshan Wonder of wonders!
  Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak
  Snyder, Gary For All
  Snyder, Gary Manzanita
  Soseki, Muso Buddha's Satori
  Tagore, Rabindranath (81) On many an idle day have I grieved over lost time (from Gitanjali)
  Teasdale, Sara Dew
  Therese of Lisieux My Song for Today
  Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew
  Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven
  Vaughan, Henry The Morning Watch
  Vidyapati He promised he'd return tomorrow.
  Walters, Dorothy Scars of Rapture
  Whitman, Walt [24] Walt Whitman, a cosmos, of Manhattan the son, (from Song of Myself)
  Wordsworth, William "And what are things eternal?--powers depart," (from The Excursion, Book 4)
  Yeats, William Butler Crazy Jane and God
  Yeats, William Butler The Dawn
  Yeats, William Butler The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  Zorman, Alenka early morning


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