Complete Poems, 1941-1994The author has dedicated himself to helping people to transform their lives through his work as a Buddhist teacher and the medium of verse. In this collection, spanning more than half a century, he aims to combine the sensitivity of the poet with the vision born of a life of spiritual practice. |
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... feel our being's tiniest part Beat with the beating of Thy Heart - Feel too , like Thee , each tear of woe Before an Image of the Buddha.
... feel our being's tiniest part Beat with the beating of Thy Heart - Feel too , like Thee , each tear of woe Before an Image of the Buddha.
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... feel To have hanging round your neck Dragging on your horns clogging Your steps thousands of Thefts murders fornications Perjuries blasphemies - Sins of a whole people For a whole year ? How did it feel To be weighed down by all that ...
... feel To have hanging round your neck Dragging on your horns clogging Your steps thousands of Thefts murders fornications Perjuries blasphemies - Sins of a whole people For a whole year ? How did it feel To be weighed down by all that ...
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... feel 188 How like a bird it comes and goes , 132 How still the mists lie 114 How sweet is love's austerity , 43 How sweet it is , how sweet again 489 HUM / Burst forth , O Jnana ... 301 I am the Windhorse ! 299 I come to you with four ...
... feel 188 How like a bird it comes and goes , 132 How still the mists lie 114 How sweet is love's austerity , 43 How sweet it is , how sweet again 489 HUM / Burst forth , O Jnana ... 301 I am the Windhorse ! 299 I come to you with four ...
Contents
SHORTER POEMS | 21 |
London in Wartime | 23 |
Systole and Diastole | 24 |
Copyright | |
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