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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Page 146
Sangharakshita (Bhikshu), Sangharakshita. 146 ' I THINK THERE LIVES MORE WISDOM ... ' I think there lives more wisdom In what the poets write Than all the scribbling fingers Of sages could indite , With doubt and speculation Troubling ...
Sangharakshita (Bhikshu), Sangharakshita. 146 ' I THINK THERE LIVES MORE WISDOM ... ' I think there lives more wisdom In what the poets write Than all the scribbling fingers Of sages could indite , With doubt and speculation Troubling ...
Page 346
... Lives of the Poets of the land From Cowley down to studious Gray And Lyttelton ( unread today ) , With lives of heroes , scholars ' lives , Where courage dares , and wit contrives . Decisively he hands them down The fadeless or the ...
... Lives of the Poets of the land From Cowley down to studious Gray And Lyttelton ( unread today ) , With lives of heroes , scholars ' lives , Where courage dares , and wit contrives . Decisively he hands them down The fadeless or the ...
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... lives . LVII This love of mine will pursue you long after I am dead , Long after the frailty of your beauty has taken refuge with the dust , Flowering into the long delayed fulfilment of its longing From some other green bud on the tree ...
... lives . LVII This love of mine will pursue you long after I am dead , Long after the frailty of your beauty has taken refuge with the dust , Flowering into the long delayed fulfilment of its longing From some other green bud on the tree ...
Contents
SHORTER POEMS | 21 |
London in Wartime | 23 |
Systole and Diastole | 24 |
Copyright | |
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