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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... song again rise clear . Before some other hut she sings , Base scion of an ancient art , Whose voice has power to pluck those strings That tremble in the heart . Though sings she at some distant door My heart shall hearken as before ...
... song again rise clear . Before some other hut she sings , Base scion of an ancient art , Whose voice has power to pluck those strings That tremble in the heart . Though sings she at some distant door My heart shall hearken as before ...
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... song breathed into her buried sense The fields of Enna and lost innocence , And love lost , and the lyrist singing lone Sadder and sweeter than the earth had known . Rough beasts themselves were then his audience . But we , tired ...
... song breathed into her buried sense The fields of Enna and lost innocence , And love lost , and the lyrist singing lone Sadder and sweeter than the earth had known . Rough beasts themselves were then his audience . But we , tired ...
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... song of sixpence , And songs of Eternity . Blake danced upon the moony banks , Yet did not lay him down . He trod the stars beneath his feet , And had the sun for crown . Blake fought the intellectual fight With burning bow and spear ...
... song of sixpence , And songs of Eternity . Blake danced upon the moony banks , Yet did not lay him down . He trod the stars beneath his feet , And had the sun for crown . Blake fought the intellectual fight With burning bow and spear ...
Contents
SHORTER POEMS | 21 |
London in Wartime | 23 |
Systole and Diastole | 24 |
Copyright | |
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