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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... flowers unfold , In the forest vast of night , Petals of purest light . So may my heart unfold , When the suns of the world have set , In the forest vast of the Void , Wisdom with Mercy met In that tranquil , silent hour , Like a flower ...
... flowers unfold , In the forest vast of night , Petals of purest light . So may my heart unfold , When the suns of the world have set , In the forest vast of the Void , Wisdom with Mercy met In that tranquil , silent hour , Like a flower ...
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... flowers That rained all night beneath the Bodhi Tree As though in adoration , or as though In homage to his súpreme victory ... Flowers of the earth or thought - flowers , all I know Is that Compassion , sunlike , can transmute Our hate ...
... flowers That rained all night beneath the Bodhi Tree As though in adoration , or as though In homage to his súpreme victory ... Flowers of the earth or thought - flowers , all I know Is that Compassion , sunlike , can transmute Our hate ...
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... dust with fear ! XXI The earth seeks to prove her love for the sun With the heavenly rhetoric of flowers . XXII When the flower shrank from the sun's love The sun wished it was a flower . Bitter as death is it to me that you should XVII.
... dust with fear ! XXI The earth seeks to prove her love for the sun With the heavenly rhetoric of flowers . XXII When the flower shrank from the sun's love The sun wished it was a flower . Bitter as death is it to me that you should XVII.
Contents
SHORTER POEMS | 21 |
London in Wartime | 23 |
Systole and Diastole | 24 |
Copyright | |
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