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• Forth went the candid man

  Forth went the candid man
  And spoke freely to the wind --

  by Stephen Maria Crane 11 lines
• The Chip on the Shoulder

  Learn this now before you are older:
  Don’t go through life with a chip on your shoulder,

  by Arthur Guiterman 11 lines, 1 comment
• Out of Your Love

  Out of your love the fire of youth will rise.
  In the chest, visions of the soul will rise.

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 4 lines
• Did I Not Say To You

  in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?”
  

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 20 lines
• Vision X

  There in the middle of the field, by the side of a crystalline stream, I saw a bird-cage whose rods and hinges were fashioned by an expert's hands. In one corne

  by Khalil Gibran 9 lines
• Night, on the Sea-shore

  I have fled from all, and none can now
  My way, my wanderings see;

  by Louisa Stuart Costello 20 lines
• In the Waters of Purity

  In the waters of purity, I melted like salt
  Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 5 lines
• Atalanta

  It’s as pleasing to me as, they say,
  that golden apple was to the swift girl,

  by Gaius Valerius Catullus 3 lines
• Poem 13

  O MY heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake, oh wake!
  Run to the feet of your Beloved: for

  by Kabir 4 lines
• Having drifted apart

  Having drifted apart,
  Why should folk

  by Saigyo 5 lines, 1 comment
• Book1 Prologue

  Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains,
  Lamenting its banishment from its home:

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 73 lines, 3 comments
• "Behold, the grave of a wicked man,"

  Behold, the grave of a wicked man,
  And near it, a stern spirit.

  by Stephen Maria Crane 12 lines
• Unwind my riddle

  UNWIND my riddle.
  Cruel as hawks the hours fly;

  by Stephen Maria Crane 7 lines, 2 comments
• You tell me this is God?

  You tell me this is God?
  I tell you this is a printed list,

  by Stephen Maria Crane 3 lines, 1 comment
• I have fallen into unconsciousness

  I have got out of my own control, I have fallen into unconsciousness; in my utter unconsciousness how joyful I am with myself!
  The darling sewed up my eyes so

  by Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi 8 lines, 2 comments
• Song Of Man XXV

  I was here from the moment of the
  

  by Khalil Gibran 46 lines
• Of His Ladies Old Age

  When you are very old, at evening
  You’ll sit and spin beside the fire, and say,

  by Pierre de Ronsard 15 lines
• The Long Road Home

  There's a wind up and a sighing along the waterside,
  And we're homeward bound at last on to-night's full tide:

  by Cicely Fox Smith 28 lines
• Two Infants II

  A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let me offer you and this whole fortunate country

  by Khalil Gibran 5 lines, 1 comment
• In His Magnification

  When He shows His Nature to His creation, into what mirror shall He enter? The burden of proclaiming the Unity not everyone bears; the desire of proclaiming the

  by Hakim Sanai 8 lines, 1 comment
• The Kings Prophecie

  What Stoick could his steely brest containe
  (If Zeno self, or who were made beside

  by Joseph Hall 384 lines
• Here Is This Day

  Here is this day,
  Across the fields of darkness softly come

  by Nancy Byrd Turner 34 lines, 1 comment
• Once I saw mountains angry

  Once I saw mountains angry,
  And ranged in battle-front.

  by Stephen Maria Crane 11 lines
• The Ode of Tarafah

  as though the wings of a white vulture enfolded the sides

  by Tarafah ibn al Abd 88 lines, 1 comment
• The Poet VIII

  He is a link between this and the coming world.
  He is

  by Khalil Gibran 66 lines, 7 comments
• Last Curtain

  I know that the day will come
  when my sight of this earth shall be lost,

  by Rabindranath Tagore 19 lines
• Deer Enclosure

  Empty hill not see person
  Yet hear person voice sound

  by Wang Wei 10 lines, 6 comments
• limitations gone

  limitations gone
  since my mind fixed on the moon

  by Saigyo 5 lines, 2 comments
• Strange That The Godless Prosper

  STRANGE is it that the godless, who have sprung
  From evil-doers, should fare prosperously,

  by Sophocles 9 lines
• Not Stopping To Mark The Trail

  Not stopping to mark the trail,
  let me push even deeper

  by Saigyo 5 lines, 4 comments

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