The Soul is here for its own joy Sacred poems from many cultures
Book - 1995
This book is a poetic exploration of different aspects of spiritual and religious questioning and includes such poets as: Rainer Maria Rilke, Rumi, Emily Dickinson, Rabindranath Tagore, Hafez, Danta Alighieri, Simone Weil, St. John of the Cross, Owl Woman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Antonio Machado, George Herbert, and Kabir.
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- Genres
- Poetry
Religious poetry - Published
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Hopewell, N.J. :
Ecco Press
©1995.
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 268 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780880013550
9780880014755
- pt. 1. Starting on the path
- pt. 2. Longing for the garden
- pt. 3. Question of greed and constant hunger
- pt. 4. Twenty poems of Kabir
- pt. 5. God in the feminine
- pt. 6. Loving God through loving a woman or a man
- pt. 7. Twenty poems of Rumi
- pt. 8. Leaving the body or entering it
- pt. 9. Dying to this world
- pt. 10. Spirit: who is a guest of the soul, will never be at home on this earth.