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Sacred Poetry from Around the World

East

The east is the direction of new birth, it is the direction from which light dawns each morning.

In symbolic language of mysticism throughout the world, to face east or travel eastward is to be oriented toward the Divine, to be receptive to it, to seek the sacred experience of awakening and of light.

See also

	Dawn
	Light
	Sun
	Sun
	Sun

Poems with the theme of East

	Crashaw, Richard To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus
	Efendi, Seyh Ibrahim The Sufi Way
	Giraut de Bornelh Reis glorios / Glorious king
	Hafiz Cupbearer, it is morning, fill my cup with wine.
	Han-Ch'ing, Kuan Idle Wandering
	Han-shan (Cold Mountain) [253] Children I implore you
	Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world; (from Baal-i-Jibreel)
	Issa, Kobayashi spring day--
	Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) A faint glow in the Eastern sky
	Khayyam, Omar [1] AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
	Maier, Michael Three Golden Apples from the Hesperian grove. (from Atalanta Fugiens)
	Mistral, Gabriela Song of Death
	Po, Li Parting
	Rumi, Jelaluddin What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
	Schuon, Frithjof Space
	Snyder, Gary At Tower Peak
	Soseki, Muso Beyond the World
	T'ao Ch'ien Autumn chrysanthemums have beautiful color,
	Trungpa, Chogyam The Education of the Warrior
	Wei, Wang Cooling Off
	Wei, Wang Fields and Gardens by the River Qi
	Whitman, Walt [24] Walt Whitman, a cosmos, of Manhattan the son, (from Song of Myself)

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East

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