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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said Love came |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [15] Sorrow looted this heart, |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [21] The day Love was illumined, |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [33] Lovers are sacrifices to the Beloved, |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [36] Piousness and the path of love |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [38] A pious one with a hundred beads on your rosary, |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [59] Those who seek annihilation in the Beloved and poverty in life |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [65] Love came and emptied me of self, |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [142] Rise early at dawn, when our storytelling begins. |
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Abil-Kheir, Abu-Said [210] When the desire for the Friend became real, |
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Adyashanti The Shape of Love |
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Alighieri, Dante The love of God, unutterable and perfect, |
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Ammons, A. R. Identity |
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Ammons, A. R. Still |
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Andal The full moon day of Margazhi is here (from Tiruppavai) |
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Ansari, Khwaja Abdullah Empty Me of Everything But Your Love |
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Arnaut Daniel The firm desire that enters |
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Ashford, Eric A Flame in the Eye of Love |
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Ashford, Eric Dances with Sophia |
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Ashford, Eric Loves Portrait |
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Ashford, Eric Stay Close to the Lovers |
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Ashford, Eric The Breath of Love |
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Ashford, Eric The Journey |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Dullard Sage |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Valley of the Quest |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Nightingale |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din A dervish in ecstasy |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din How long then will you seek for beauty here? |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din Look -- I do nothing; He performs all deeds |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din The Lover |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din Looking for your own face |
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Attar, Farid ud-Din Mysticism |
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Aulia, Hazrat Nizamuddin In Allah's garden you gather roses, |
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Bahu, Sultan I knew God well when love flashed before me. |
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Bahu, Sultan So what if love's idol is hidden? One's heart will never be far away. |
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Battacharya, Mahendranath Screening its face amongst lotus stalks |
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ben Kallir, Eleazar Epithalamium |
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Bernart de Ventadorn When I see the lark beating |
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Berry, Wendell What We Need Is Here |
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Bhitai, Shah Abdul Latif If you are seeking Allah, |
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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence |
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Blake, William Awake! awake O sleeper of the land of shadows (from Jerusalem) |
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Blake, William Eternity |
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Blake, William The Divine Image |
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Brabazon, Francis Dawn is a Friend |
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Brabazon, Francis Our drop souls are of the ocean of Truth |
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Brabazon, Francis The Dawn-Song Of His Mouth (from Stay With God) |
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Brabazon, Francis The world is being run on time |
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Bronte, Emily No coward soul is mine, |
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Bulleh Shah I have been pierced by the arrow of love, what shall I do ? |
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Bulleh Shah Repeating the name of the Beloved |
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Bulleh Shah What a carefree game He plays! |
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Bulleh Shah Your love has made me dance all over. |
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Chinook (Anonymous) Teach us, and show us the Way |
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Clare of Assisi Draw me after You! |
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Clare of Assisi Happy, indeed, is she whom it is given to share this sacred banquet, |
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Clare of Assisi O blessed poverty, |
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Clare of Assisi Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! |
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Clare of Assisi When You have loved, You shall be chaste |
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Cloud of Unknowing Blessed With a Kiss |
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Cloud of Unknowing How Can I Deny You? |
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Cloud of Unknowing The Crucifixion |
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Cloud of Unknowing The Ecstasy of the Atoms |
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Cloud of Unknowing The Recital |
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Cloud of Unknowing What Am I? |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The Presence of Love |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To Nature |
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Crashaw, Richard The Flaming Heart or the Life of the Glorious S. Teresa |
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Crashaw, Richard To the Name above every Name, the Name of Jesus |
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cummings, e. e. i thank You God for most this amazing |
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cummings, e. e. love is a place |
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Dadu Dayal So priceless is the birth, O brother, |
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Dariya Who can describe the Source of the universe, |
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Dariya Without love there can be no devotion and wisdom. (from Love Chapter) |
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Dariya You have nothing to worry about. |
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Dickinson, Emily [322] There came a Day at Summer¹s full, |
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Dickinson, Emily [611] I see thee better -- in the Dark -- |
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Dogen One of fifteen verses on Dogen's mountain retreat: |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo Brahma |
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Emre, Yunus I am before, I am after |
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Emre, Yunus One Who Is Real Is Humble |
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Emre, Yunus The lover is outcast and idle |
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Emre, Yunus The mature ones are a sea. |
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Emre, Yunus True speech is the fruit of not speaking. |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh Raga Asa |
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Farid, Baba Sheikh The lanes are muddy and far is the house |
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Francis of Assisi Let us desire nothing else |
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Francis of Assisi Prayer from 'A Letter to the Entire Order' |
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Francis of Assisi Prayer Inspired by the Our Father |
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Francis of Assisi The Canticle of Brother Sun |
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Galib, Seyh If I say that the skies have opened |
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Galib, Seyh Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth; |
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Ganjavi, Mahsati A world there is for those in love with mines of precious stones, |
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Gibran, Kahlil Reason and Passion (from The Prophet) |
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Govindasvamin Holy sixth day |
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Granger, Ivan M. Bent |
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Granger, Ivan M. Reflection |
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Granger, Ivan M. Touch |
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Granger, Ivan M. in love with the new sun |
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Granger, Ivan M. The World's Cruel Kiss |
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Granger, Ivan M. When the Spring Thaw Comes |
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Granger, Ivan M. Adi Atman 6: vixen eyes |
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Hadewijch Dew (from Love's Seven Names) |
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Hadewijch God must give us a renewed mind (from Vale Millies) |
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Hadewijch How she first made me beautiful promises (from Defense of Love) |
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Hadewijch Love Has Seven Names |
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Hadewijch Love has subjugated me: |
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Hadewijch Love's constancy |
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Hadewijch The madness of love |
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Hadewijch What I sang so often of Love (from Defense of Love) |
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Hafiz A New World |
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Hafiz Hair disheveled, smiling lips, sweating and tipsy, |
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Hafiz It Is Time to Wake Up! |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Consumed in Grace |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Geronimo |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) How Could a Lover Fall? |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) I Have Learned So Much |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) Love is the Funeral Pyre |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) That Lamp That Needs No Oil |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) That Magnificent Storm |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) The Thousand-Stringed Instrument |
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Hafiz (Ladinsky, Daniel) What the Hell |
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Hallaj (al-Hallaj, Mansur) I am the One whom I love |
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Hallaj (al-Hallaj, Mansur) Kill me, my faithful friends, |
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Hanh, Thich Nhat Looking for Each Other |
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Hawaiian (Anonymous) He kanaenae no Laka / A Prayer of Adulation to Laka |
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Hayati, Bibi Before there was a hint of civilization |
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Hekhalot Hymns (Anonymous) The Face of God |
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Herbert, George Church-Monuments |
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Herbert, George Prayer (I) |
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Herbert, George The Pearl. Matthew 13 |
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Hildegard of Bingen O Euchari in leta via / Sequence for Saint Eucharius |
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Hildegard of Bingen O ignis Spiritus Paracliti / Sequence for the Holy Spirit |
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Himmet, Kul No Ordinary Goods |
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Holderlin, Friedrich Remembrance |
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Holmes, Dick You Have Me |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin As Night Let its Curtains Down in Folds |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin I believe in the religion |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin In the Mirror of a Man |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin My heart has become capable of every form |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin When my Beloved appears, |
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Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin While the sun's eye rules my sight, |
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Ibn al-Farid, Umar In memory of the beloved (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah)) |
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ibn Gabirol, Solomon "Rise and open the door that is shut, |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Bright are Thy tresses, brighten them even more, (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad O Cup-bearer! Give me again that wine of love for Thee; (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad Selfhood can demolish the magic of this world; (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iqbal, Allama Muhammad To the Saqi (from Baal-i-Jibreel) |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Every word of every tongue is |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin I want Union with Him |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin In those days |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love plays its lute behind the screen -- |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Love the phoenix cannot be trapped |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin O saki, fill a cup |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin We Yield Our Hearts |
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Iraqi, Fakhruddin Whether they know Thee or not |
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Islam, Nazrul Come silently like the Moon |
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Islam, Nazrul He who has seen my Mother |
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Islam, Nazrul Let's Meet Hereafter! |
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Islam, Nazrul mother, i may have been a naughty child, |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) As air becomes the medium for light when the sun rises, (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) How the Soul Through the Senses Finds God in All Creatures |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) In losing all, the soul has risen (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) Love beyond all telling, (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jacopone da Todi (Benedetti, Jacopone) When you no longer love yourself (from Self-Annihilation and Charity Lead the Soul...) |
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Jami, Ahmad Even from earthly love thy face avert not, |
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Jayadeva Raga Gujri |
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Jayadeva When he quickens all things (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva [3] When spring came, tender-limbed Radha wandered (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jayadeva [6] My heart values his vulgar ways, (from The Gitagovinda) |
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Jnanadev The Union of Shiva and Shakti (from Amritanubhav) |
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John of the Cross Dark Night |
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John of the Cross Full of Hope I Climbed the Day |
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John of the Cross Love's Living Flame |
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John of the Cross On the Communion of the Three Persons (from Romance on the Gospel) |
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John of the Cross The Sum of Perfection |
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John of the Cross Without a Place and With a Place |
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Kabir Hang up the swing of love today! |
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Kabir The Lord is in Me |
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Kabir When the Day Came |
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Kabir [XVII] The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright: |
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Kabir (6) The moon shines in my body |
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Kabir (8) Within this earthen vessel |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) Choose Love |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) In the pre-dawn hours |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) The Way To Peace |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) This mind, like a firefly, flashes into existence, |
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Kalidas (Edwards, Lawrence) What mind can possibly approach you |
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Kamalakanta Mother, |
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Kerouac, Jack Bowery Blues |
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Kerouac, Jack The Scripture of the Golden Eternity |
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Khayyam, Omar [35] I think the Vessel, that with fugitive |
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Khayyam, Omar [62] Another said -- "Why, ne'er a peevish Boy, |
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Kirmani, Hamid al-Din Swept Away |
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Ko Un Indangsu sea, shine dark blue, |
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Lalla (Ded, Lal) At the end of a crazy-moon night |
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Lawrence, D. H. Deeper Than Love |
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Lee, Li-Young From Blossoms |
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Leon, Luis de Ode to Francisco Salinas |
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Leon, Luis de The Life Removed |
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Levertov, Denise Beginners |
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Levertov, Denise The Secret |
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Levine, Stephen Half life |
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Llull, Ramon January (from The Book of the Lover and Beloved) |
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Machado, Antonio Songs |
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Maghsoud, Moulana Shah The light of the beloved rises from the horizon of my heart, |
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Mahadevi, Akka He bartered my heart |
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Mahadevi, Akka I love the Handsome One: |
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Mahadevi, Akka Like a silkworm weaving |
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Maharshi, Ramana The Marital Garland of Letters |
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Maier, Michael Three Golden Apples from the Hesperian grove. (from Atalanta Fugiens) |
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Manikkavacakar While unperishing love melted my bones, |
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Mathias, Michael The Tower of Silence |
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Mathias, Michael (9) My Blind Musicians (from Tagore: Gallery of Sketches) |
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Mathias, Michael (10) The Tree of Kabbalah - The Kiss (from The Cosmic Soul and the World Tree) |
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McCombs, Chris Divine Lovers |
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McCombs, Chris Finish Me Off |
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McCombs, Chris Go Deeper |
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McCombs, Chris Passion for the Sacred |
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McCombs, Chris Pavanas |
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McCombs, Chris Swan Born |
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McCombs, Chris The Friend Is Always There |
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McCombs, Chris Your Pilot |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Effortlessly, |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Of the voices of the Godhead |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg The devil also offers his spirit |
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Mechthild of Magdeburg Then shall I leap into love |
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Mei, Yuan Climbing the Mountain |
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Merton, Thomas O Sweet Irrational Worship |
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Mirabai Dark Friend, what can I say? |
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Mirabai Friend, without that Dark raptor |
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Mirabai I am true to my Lord, |
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Mirabai No one knows my invisible life. |
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Mirabai O my friends, |
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Mirabai Unbreakable, O Lord, |
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Mirabai Why Mira Can't Come Back to Her Old House |
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Misri, Niyazi Now No Trace Remains |
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Namdev The thundering resonance of the Word |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin At love's most sumptuous feast was I with love made drunk - |
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Nasimi, Imadeddin I take the Merciful One¹s shape, the Merciful I am. |
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Nawaz, Gharib Riddle |
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Nawaz, Gharib The Second Jesus |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah I beheld my essence. What I saw |
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Nematollah Vali, Shah The Sea Is Our Essence |
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Neruda, Pablo Gautama Christ |
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Neruda, Pablo [17] I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, |
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Nirmala A lasting marriage |
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Nirmala it is here |
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Nirmala why fear this moment |
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Novalis Over I journey |
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Novalis Uplifted is the stone -- |
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O'Donohue, John Beannacht / Blessing |
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O'Donohue, John May the light of your soul guide you. |
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O'Donohue, John On the death of the Beloved |
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Oliver, Colin Love |
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Oliver, Mary In Blackwater Woods |
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Oliver, Mary Spring |
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Oliver, Mary Wild Geese |
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Osborne, Arthur Arunachala |
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Po, Li The Cold Clear Spring at Nanyang |
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Porete, Marguerite Beguines say I err... |
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Porete, Marguerite Beloved, what do you want of me? |
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Porete, Marguerite How Love names the Soul by twelve names |
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Porete, Marguerite How Truth Praises Such Souls |
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Porete, Marguerite O Lover of gentle nature, |
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Porete, Marguerite Peace of charity in the annihilated life |
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Porete, Marguerite Thought is no longer of worth to me, |
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Porete, Marguerite You who would read this book, |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness. |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) My joy -- |
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Rabia (Al-'Adawiyya, Rabi'a) O my Lord, the stars glitter |
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Ramakrishna Is there anyone in the universe, |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Its value beyond assessment by the mind |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Love Her, Mind; |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Who is that Syama woman |
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Ramprasad (Sen, Ramprasad) Why disappear into formless trance? |
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Ravidas If You are a mountain, |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Basin |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Deluge |
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Reninger, Elizabeth True Love |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Vision |
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Reninger, Elizabeth Wood Pile |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria Duration of Childhood |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Man Watching |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria The Second Elegy (from The Duino Elegies) |
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Rosenstock, Gabriel (51) the grace showered on me (from Uttering Her Name) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin By the God who was in pre-eternity living and moving and omnipotent, everlasting. |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin I'm neither beautiful nor ugly |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Love is Here |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin No end to the journey |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin On Love |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Seizing my life in your hands, you thrashed me clean |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin That moon which the sky never saw |
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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. |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin The Sun Must Come |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin Whoever finds love |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin [82] Today, like every other day, we wake up empty |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin A World with No Boundaries (Ghazal 363) |
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Rumi, Jelaluddin [1246] The minute I heard my first love story |
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Saadi If one His praise of me would learn, |
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Sanai, Hakim Mystic Chat |
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Sanai, Hakim Streaming |
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Saraha The Royal Song of Saraha (Dohakosa) |
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Sarmad Companion |
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Sarmad To the dignified station of love I was raised, |
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Shabistari, Mahmud Sun-Reflections (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Beloved Guest (from The Secret Rose Garden) |
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Shabistari, Mahmud The Tavern Haunters |
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silent lotus Hurdles |
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silent lotus In the Clearing |
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Silesius, Angelus God, whose love and joy |
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Singh, Darshan How did I ever think silence the language of love? |
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Singh, Darshan In what state was I |
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Solovyov, Vladimir Three Meetings |
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Stein, Edith I Will Remain With You... |
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Stein, Edith Novena Of The Holy Spirit |
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Surdas Krishna Awakes |
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Symeon the New Theologian We awaken in Christ's body |
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Tagore, Rabindranath I touch God in my song |
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Tagore, Rabindranath (38) I want thee, only thee (from Gitanjali) |
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Teasdale, Sara I Am Not Yours |
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Teasdale, Sara Oh You Are Coming |
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Teasdale, Sara Two Songs for Solitude |
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Teresa of Avila In the Hands of God |
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Teresa of Avila Oh Exceeding Beauty |
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Thayumanavar Prayer to Being - Let Us Contemplate |
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Thayumanavar To have reached the state of impassivity that holds (from Bliss that is Perfect Full) |
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Therese of Lisieux The Atom of Jesus-Host |
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Therese of Lisieux My Song for Today |
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Therese of Lisieux The Divine Dew |
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Thompson, Francis The Hound of Heaven |
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Tilopa Song of the Mahamudra (Tilopa's Song to Naropa) |
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Tiruvalluvar Love |
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Traherne, Thomas Love |
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Trungpa, Chogyam Exposé |
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Tukaram Can water drink itself? |
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Tukaram Thou art more kind than mother dear, |
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Tulsidas The Rainy Season |
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Vidyapati All my inhibition left me in a flash, |
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Vidyapati My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain |
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Vidyapati The moon has shone upon me, |
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Walters, Dorothy Ruined by Your Beauty |
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Walters, Dorothy Taken |
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Wei, Wang My Cottage at Deep South Mountain |
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Whitman, Walt [2] Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, (from Song of Myself) |
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Whitman, Walt [7] Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? (from Song of Myself) |
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Wordsworth, William For I have learned (from Tintern Abbey) |
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Yeats, William Butler Crazy Jane and God |
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Yeats, William Butler The Secret Rose |
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Yogananda, Paramahansa Prayer for the Great Enlightenment |
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Yoka Genkaku (Xuanjue, Yongjia) [31] Holding truth and rejecting delusion-- (from The Shodoka) |
