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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
DIVINITY – What is the nature of God or the One?
The Song of Creation, Rig-Veda (trans F Max Muller)
God, ancient Egyptian (trans anon)
From The Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna (trans Sir Edwin Arnold)
From The Gospel According to St John, St John (trans William Tyndale)
From A Hymn of Jesus, Christian tradition (trans anon)
All Is He, ’Iraqi (trans anon)
The Pursuit of God, Rúmí (trans Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy, revised by Robert Bridges)
From Songs of Kabir, Kabir (trans Rabindranath Tagore)
I Am Thine, and Born for Thee, St Teresa of Avila (trans anon)
The Intellectual Fire, Jacob Revius (trans anon)
Resurrection, imperfect, John Donne
The Star, Henry Vaughan
From The Eternal Word, Frederick William Faber
Implicit Faith, Aubrey de Here
Knowledge, Philip James Bailey
Last Lines, Emily Brontë
To See God, Walt Whitman
From Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets, Christina Rossetti
The Over-Heart, John Greenleaf Whittier
From Out of Silence, James Rhodes
Love’s Vision, Edward Carpenter
From The World-Spirit, Edward Carpenter
Nirvana, Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes
Assumpta Maria, Francis Thompson
TRANSCENDENCE – What deep truths can we find in our spiritual quest?
From In an Indian Temple, Mandukya (trans Sir Edwin Arnold)
From New Sayings of Jesus and the Logia (fragments of a lost gospel) (trans Drs Grenfell and Hunt)
From The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu (trans Mike Annesley)
Lord, Thou Hast Shown Me, Jacopone da Todi (trans anon)
From The Parliament of Bees, Attar (trans Edward Fitzgerald)
From The Rubaiyat of Mar Khayyam (trans Edward Fitzgerald)
From The Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Dante (trans H F Carey)
From The Vita Nova, Dante (trans D G Rossetti)
Blissful Awareness, anon
Clasping of Hands, George Herbert
Vanity of Spirit, Henry Vaughan
From Ascension Day, Henry Vaughan
An Hymn upon St Bartholomew’s Day, Thomas Traherne
Poems of Nazir, Nazir (trans H P Shastri)
From Jerusalem, William Blake
From The Brahmin, James Montgomery
From Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Human Life’s Mystery, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From With Sa’di in the Garden, Sa’di (trans Sir Edwin Arnold)
The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins
As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Gerard Manley Hopkins
La Vie Profonde, Edward Gore Alexander Holmes
The Kingdom of God, Francis Thompson
Renewal, Michael Field
Sonnets to Orpheus, II, 4, Rainer Maria Rilke (trans Robert Saxton)
The Angel Roof, Robert Saxton
LOVE – How can we give and cherish most profoundly?
The Song of Solomon (trans Miles Coverdale)
From The Gita Govinda, Govinda ((trans Sir Edwin Arnold)
From Epistle 1 of St John, St John (trans William Tyndale)
Love, Rabi’a (trans anon)
Love, St Isaac of Stella (trans anon)
Love Flows from God, Mechthild of Magdeburg (trans anon)
For I Am Faint with Love, anon (trans anon)
Of Man’s Perfection in Love, Jacopone da Todi (trans anon)
When In Love’s Snare, ’Iraqi (trans anon)
This Is Love, Rúmí (trans F Hadland Davis)
The Journey of the Beloved, Rúmí (trans F Hadland Davis)
The Religion of Love, Rúmí (trans F Hadland Davis)
Pain Is a Treasure, Rúmí (trans F Hadland Davis)
From Poems of Kabir, Kabir (trans H P Shastri)
My Beloved One Is Mine, St Teresa of Avila (trans anon)
Prayer, St Teresa of Avila (trans anon)
Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis, Sir Philip Sidney
To God the Father, Henry Constable
Aire and Angels, John Donne
A Song, Richard Crashaw
The Rapture, Thomas Traherne
From Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sudden Light, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
From Momma Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets, Christina Rossetti
Communion, Edward Dowden
Love’s Lord, Edward Dowden
From Song by the Subconscious Self, Andrew Lang
He Who Knows Love, Elsa Barker
Song of the Wave, Kahlil Gibran (trans Anthony Rizcallah Ferris)
DEVOTION – How might we explore and affirm our faith?
Prayer, St Denis (trans anon)
The Path of Devotion, Ansari (trans anon)
O Lord, Give Me Eyes, Ansari (trans anon)
Devotion for Thee, Ansari (trans anon)
Immerse Yourself for Evermore, Attar (trans anon)
We Yield Our Hearts, ’Iraqi (trans anon)
A Sonnet, Michelangelo (trans William Wordsworth)
An Hymn, Phineas Fletcher
Emblem III, vii: Wherefore Hidest Thou Thy Face, and Holdest Me for Thine Enemy?, Francis Quarles
The Altar, George Herbert
From Poems of Tukarama, Tukarama (trans Nelson Fraser and K B Marathe)
Preface from Silex Scintillans, Henry Vaughan
From Disorder and Frailty, Henry Vaughan
The Pilgrim Song, John Bunyan
Huswifery, Edward Taylor
So Far, So Near, Christopher Pearce Cranch
Pied Beauty, Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Living God, Vivekananda
Kyrie, R S Thomas
PEACE – How can we find stillness amidst turmoil and loss?
A Prayer, St Francis of Assisi (trans anon)
The Pure Mind, Jenti (trans anon)
My Heart Is Free, Patacara (trans anon)
Fulfilment, Tayumanavar (trans anon)
God’s Lute, Angelus Silesius (trans anon)
Why Fear to Die?, Sir Philip Sidney
The Pilgrimage, Sir Walter Raleigh
From Samson Agonistes, John Milton
Peace, Henry Vaughan
Rise, Noble Soul, Thomas Traherne
Ode on Solitude, Alexander Pope
The Dying Christian to His Soul: Ode, Alexander Pope
Song, William Blake
The Secret of the Universe, Edward Dowden
Sonnets to Orpheus, II, 29, Rainer Maria Rilke (trans Robert Saxton)
From By the Shore, Edward Carpenter
Quiet, John Spencer Moorhead
The Slumberer, Elsa Barker
Microprosopos, Elsa Barker
The Fountain, Vivian de Sola Pinto
The Eclipse, Richard Eberhart
NATURE – What insights can we take from creation?
From Song to Apollo, Homer (trans Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Amergin (trans anon)
The Power of Sense, Sir John Davies
Man, George Herbert
From Contemplations, Anne Bradstreet
Meditation, Canticles 6.11: I Went Down into the Garden of Nuts, to See the Fruits, Edward Taylor
From Retirement, William Cowper
Night, William Blake
From Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth
From Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, William Wordsworth
From To Jane: The Invitation, Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Ode to Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Each and All, Ralph Waldo Emerson
From A Day of Sunshine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All Things Are Full of God, John Stuart Blake
Pebbles in the Stream, William Bell Scott
Pippa’s Song, Robert Browning
I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings, Henry David Thoreau
Mont Blanc, John Ruskin
From The Tent on the Beach, John Greenleaf Whittier
A Dream Within a Dream, Edgar Allan Poe
God’s Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hurrahing in Harvest, Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Quest, Eva Gore-Booth
From A Song of Life, Vivian de Sola Pinto
SPIRIT – What is sacred about the individual self?
A New Light Doth Shine, Luis de Leon (trans anon)
Sonnet XXIII, Michelangelo (trans Vivian de Sola Pinto)
The Knowledge of God, Jacob Revius (trans anon)
The Known Must Be the Knower, Angelus Silesius (trans anon)
Sonnet 146, William Shakespeare
Why the Soul Is United to the Body, Sir John Davies
Good Friday, 1613: Riding Westward, John Donne
From Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations, John Donne
The Inner Light, John Milton
The Flesh and the Spirit, Anne Bradstreet
From A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure, Andrew Marvell
On a Drop of Dew, Andrew Marvell
My Spirit, Thomas Traherne
From Auguries of Innocence, William Blake
Self-Knowledge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Soul’s Expression, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Winged Soul, Emily Pfeiffer
From Paracelsus, Book I, Robert Browning
From Song of the Open Road, Walt Whitman
Grand Is the Seen, Walt Whitman
From Empedocles on Etna, Matthew Arnold
Soul’s Beauty, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Confluents, Christina Rossetti
The Recall, Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Caged Skylark, Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Mystic’s Prayer, William Sharp
Harvest, Eva Gore-Booth
The Quest, James H Cousins
The Mystic Rose, Elsa Barker
From Sat Darshan, Ramana Maharshi (trans Kapali Sastry)
The Coming of Light, Mark Strand
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