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INTRODUCTION
WHEN DEATH COMES - Mary Oliver
LOVE AFTER LOVE - Derek Walcott
WILD GEESE - Mary Oliver
TODAY I WAS HAPPY, SO I MADE THIS POEM - James Wright
POETRY - Pablo Neruda
THE GATE - Marie Howe
SHOVELING SNOW WITH BUDDHA - Billy Collins
WE SHALL NOT CEASE (FROM LITTLE GIDDING) - T. S. Eliot
ON ANGELS - Czeslaw Milosz
HOLY SPIRIT - Hildegard of Bingen
PEOPLE LIKE US - Robert Bly
MY DEAD FRIENDS - Marie Howe
TODAY, LIKE EVERY OTHER DAY - Rumi
I AM NOT I - Juan Ramón Jiménez
THREE TIMES MY LIFE HAS OPENED - Jane Hirshfield
THAT DAY - Denise Levertov
MILKWEED - James Wright
MY FIFTIETH YEAR - W. B. Yeats
SO MUCH HAPPINESS - Naomi Shihab Nye
ON FOOT I HAD TO WALK THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEMS - Edith Södergran
SUNSET - Rainer Maria Rilke
THE WIND, ONE BRILLIANT DAY - Antonio Machado
EVERYTHING IS PLUNDERED - Anna Akhmatova
WEATHERING - Fleur Adcock
IS MY SOUL ASLEEP? - Antonio Machado
I HAVE MANY BROTHERS IN THE SOUTH - Rainer Maria Rilke
SWEET DARKNESS - David Whyte
I THINK CONTINUALLY OF THOSE WHO WERE TRULY GREAT - Stephen Spender
OCEANS - Juan Ramón Jiménez
WATER - Philip Larkin
THE LONG BOAT - Stanley Kunitz
YOU SEE I WANT A LOT - Rainer Maria Rilke
THE JOURNEY - Mary Oliver
I TAKE MASTER CARD (CHARGE YOUR LOVE TO ME) - Nikki Giovanni
THE GREATEST LOVE - Anna Swir
RAPTURE - Galway Kinnell
LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY (EXCERPT) - William Wordsworth
A HOMECOMING - Wendell Berry
THE VERY SHORT SUTRA ON THE MEETING OF THE BUDDHA AN D THE GODDESS - Rick Fields
GIFT - Czeslaw Milosz
NOTICE - Steve Kowit
THINGS TO THINK - Robert Bly
IT’S POSSIBLE - Antonio Machado
THE THIRD BODY - Robert Bly
DITHYRAMB OF A HAPPY WOMAN - Anna Swir
I UNPETALLED YOU - Juan Ramón Jiménez
TO HAVE WITHOUT HOLDING - Marge Piercy
DEEPER THAN LOVE - D. H. Lawrence
ALL I WAS DOING WAS BREATHING - Mirabai
SOUL AT THE WHITE HEAT - Emily Dickinson
WILD NIGHTS - Emily Dickinson
I THANK YOU - E. E. Cummings
A BLESSING - James Wright
POSTSCRIPT - Seamus Heaney
RIPENESS - Jane Hirshfield
IN BLACKWATER WOODS - Mary Oliver
PARKINSON’S DISEASE - Galway Kinnell
KINDNESS - Naomi Shihab Nye
FOR THE SAKE OF STRAN G ERS - Dorianne Laux
THE SAME INSIDE - Anna Swir
ODDJOB, A BULL TERRIER - Derek Walcott
FOR THE RAI N DROP - Ghalib
A PLACE TO SIT - Kabir
BREATH - Kabir
WHEN THE SHOE FITS - Chuang Tzu
SOMETI MES A MAN - Rainer Maria Rilke
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN - Robert Frost
THE WELL OF GRIEF - David Whyte
ENCOUNTER - Czeslaw Milosz
THE PROMISE - Marie Howe
O TASTE AN D SEE - Denise Levertov
OATMEAL - Galway Kinnell
ODE TO MY SUIT - Pablo Neruda
SNAKE - D. H. Lawrence
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS - Wendell Berry
ASK ME - William Stafford
THE PRELUDE I (EXCERPT) - William Wordsworth
THE CELLI ST - Galway Kinnell
THIS ONLY - Czeslaw Milosz
ONCE ONLY - Denise Levertov
THIS MUCH I DO REMEMBER - Billy Collins
LIFE - Juan Ramón Jiménez
TASTING HEAVEN - Robert Bly
THE SWAN - Rainer Maria Rilke
THE MAN WATCHING - Rainer Maria Rilke
THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN YOUR LIFE ANDADOG - Robert Bly
LAST NIGHT, AS I WAS SLEEPING - Antonio Machado
THE UN KNOWN FLUTE - Kabir
THE SOUND - Kabir
WHEN THE ONE I LOVE - Hafez
O MY FRIENDS - Mirabai
THANK YOU, MY FATE - Anna Swir
SOME KISS WE WANT - Rumi
EYES - Czeslaw Milosz
LAKE AN D MAPLE - Jane Hirshfield
GIFT - R. S. Thomas
THE HEAT OF MIDNIGHT TEARS - Mirabai
THE DOOR - Jane Hirshfield
A STRANGE FEATHER - Hafiz
THE MAN OF TAO - Chuang Tzu
FIRE IN THE EARTH - David Whyte
THE DOVE DESCENDING (FROM LITTLE GIDDING) - T. S. Eliot
THE HOLY LONGING - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
PRAYER IS AN EGG - Rumi
PRAYER
THIS TALKING RAG - Hafiz
MAYBE - Mary Oliver
DUST - Dorianne Laux
PERFECT JOY - Chuang Tzu
LET’S GO HOME - Rumi
ALSO BY ROGER HOUSDEN
ABOUT THE POETS
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
PERMISSIONS
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Copyright Page
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