Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment - Softcover

Halpern, Daniel

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9780060982034: Holy Fire: Nine Visionary Poets and the Quest for Enlightenment

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ISBN 10: 0060982039 ISBN 13: 9780060982034

Publisher: Perennial, 1994

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A collection of inspirational poems centers on a common theme of spiritual discovery and includes the works of William Blake, Ranier Maria Rilke, Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi, and fifteenth-century Hindu mystic Mirabai. Original. National ad/promo.

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An extraordinary compilation of works by nine visionary poets from past and present--including the Sufi poet Rumi, the mystic Mirabai, William Blake, and Allen Ginsberg--that highlights their contributions to our human spiritual quest for enlightenment.

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Auguries Of Innocence by William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
The Divine Image, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
A Dream, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
The Echoing Green, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
The Grey Monk by William Blake
Holy Thursday, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
Laughing Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
The Little Black Boy, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
London, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell by William Blake
The Mental Traveller by William Blake
My Pretty Rose Tree, Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Night, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
Nurse's Song, Fr. Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
The Price Of Experience [or, The Wail Of Enion] by William Blake
Songs Of Innocence: Introduction by William Blake
The Sun Has Left His Blackness & Has Found A Fresher Morning by William Blake
To The Evening Star by William Blake
To The Muses by William Blake
Trembling & Struck By The Universal Stroke, The Trees Unroot by William Blake
The Tyger [tiger], Fr. Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Vala [or, Introduction To Night The First] by William Blake
Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion by William Blake
With Trembling Horror Pale, Aghast The Children Of Man by William Blake
Atlantis by Harold Hart Crane
Ave Maria by Harold Hart Crane
The Broken Tower by Harold Hart Crane
For The Marriage Of Faustus And Helen by Harold Hart Crane
Lachrymae Christi by Harold Hart Crane
O Carib Isle! by Harold Hart Crane
Passage by Harold Hart Crane
Recitative by Harold Hart Crane
Repose Of Rivers by Harold Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge by Harold Hart Crane
The Tunnel by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 1 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 2 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 3 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 4 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 5 by Harold Hart Crane
Voyages: 6 by Harold Hart Crane
America by Allen Ginsberg
The Change: Kyoto-tokyo Express by Allen Ginsberg
Howl; For Carl Solomon by Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg
Wales Visitation by Allen Ginsberg
Candle, Wine, Friends by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Dervish At The Door by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Desire And The Importance Of Failing by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Eat! Bread-bird by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
The Elusive Ones by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
For Years, Copying Other People, I Tried To Know Myself by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Forget The World, And So by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
The Hoppoe's Talent by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
How Does A Part Of The World Leave The World? by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
I Don't Get Tired Of You. Don't Grow Weary by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
I Have Been Tricked By Flying Too Close by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
I Need A Mouth As Wide As The Sky by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
I Was Dead, Then Alive by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
The Indian Parrot by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
The Jar With The Dry Rim by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
The New Rule by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
On The Day I Die, When I'm Being by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
The Question by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Someone Said, 'there Is No Dervish by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Someone Who Doesn't Know The Tigris River Exists by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
There Once Was A Sneering Wife by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
They Say That Paradise Will Be Perfect by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Think That You're Gliding Out From The Face Of A Cliff by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
The Variety Of Intelligence In Human Beings by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
We Can't Help Being Thirsty by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
When Things Are Heard by Jalal Ad-din (jalaluddin) Ar-rumi
Ascetics Wander Shrine To Shrine by Lalla
Dying And Giving Birth Go On by Lalla
Fame Is Water by Lalla
I Came To This Birth And Rebirth Universe by Lalla
I Was Passionate by Lalla
Lalla, You've Wandered So Many Places by Lalla
Let Them Throw Their Curses by Lalla
Loosen The Load Of Sweetness I'm Carrying by Lalla
Meditate Within Eternity by Lalla
Men And Women Now, Even The Best by Lalla
Playfully, You Hid From Me by Lalla
Shiva Is The Horse by Lalla
Some People Abandpn Their Homes by Lalla
The Soul, Like The Moon by Lalla
The Sun, The Lowest Chakra Of Action by Lalla
There Are Those Sleeping Who Are Awake by Lalla
They Arrive And Others Arrive by Lalla
Those With A Knack For Walking In Air by Lalla
Wear Just Enough Clothes To Keep Warm by Lalla
What Is Worship? Who Are This Man by Lalla
What Understanding Comes Through Reading? by Lalla
All I Was Doing Was Breathing by Mirabai
Binding My Ankles With Silver by Mirabai
Dark One by Mirabai
Dark One, %how Can I Sleep? by Mirabai
Don't Go, Don't Go by Mirabai
Down By The River A Flute! by Mirabai
Drunk, Turbulent Clouds by Mirabai
Friend, %though The World Sleeps by Mirabai
Friend, I See by Mirabai
Guide This Little Boat by Mirabai
He Has Stained Me by Mirabai
Hear My Plea, Dark One, I Am by Mirabai
The Heat Of Midnight Tears by Mirabai
I Am Your Slave by Mirabai
In My Dream, Sister by Mirabai
It's True I Went To The Market by Mirabai
Life On This Planet Is Fragile by Mirabai
Love Has Stained My Body by Mirabai
My Beloved Is Lovely To Look At by Mirabai
My Dark One by Mirabai
O Friends, I Am Mad by Mirabai
O My Friends by Mirabai
The Plums Tasted by Mirabai
Refuge In You, Dark One by Mirabai
Sister, The Dark One Won't Speak To Me by Mirabai
Ten Thousand Thanks by Mirabai
Thick Overhead %clouds Of The Monsoon by Mirabai
This Is The Seal Of by Mirabai
To Be Born In This Human Body Is Rare by Mirabai
Unbreakable, O Lord by Mirabai
When Can I Meet %the Dark Lord? by Mirabai
Why Life by Mirabai
Why Mira Can't Go Back To Her Old House by Mirabai
Why This Impulse by Mirabai
Yogin, I Did Not Touch by Mirabai
Again, Again! by Rainer Maria Rilke
All Of You Undisturbed Cities by Rainer Maria Rilke
And Then That Girl The Angels Came To Visit by Rainer Maria Rilke
Archaic Torso Of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
Buddha In Glory by Rainer Maria Rilke
Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Duino Elegies: 1 by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Duino Elegies: 10 by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Duino Elegies: 2 by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Duino Elegies: 6 by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Duino Elegies: 9 by Rainer Maria Rilke
Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart. Look, How Tiny ... by Rainer Maria Rilke
For The Sake Of A Single Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
I Am, O Anxious One. Don't You Hear My Voice by Rainer Maria Rilke
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Sonnets To Orpheus: First Part, 1 by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Sonnets To Orpheus: First Part, 3 by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Way In by Rainer Maria Rilke
Democracy by Arthur Rimbaud
Departure by Arthur Rimbaud
The Deserts Of Love by Arthur Rimbaud
The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
Farewell by Arthur Rimbaud
Genie by Arthur Rimbaud
H by Arthur Rimbaud
Hunger by Arthur Rimbaud
Lives by Arthur Rimbaud
Morning by Arthur Rimbaud
Morning Of Drunkeness by Arthur Rimbaud
Night Of Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Sale by Arthur Rimbaud
A Season Of Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Tale by Arthur Rimbaud
Vagabonds by Arthur Rimbaud
Vigils by Arthur Rimbaud
Youth: 1. Sunday by Arthur Rimbaud
Youth: 2. Sonnet by Arthur Rimbaud
Youth: 3. Twenty Years Old by Arthur Rimbaud
Youth: 4. War by Arthur Rimbaud
All Souls' Night; Epilogue To 'a Vision' by William Butler Yeats
Among School Children by William Butler Yeats
The Cloak, The Boat, And The Shoes by William Butler Yeats
A Coat by William Butler Yeats
A Dialogue Of Self And Soul by William Butler Yeats
Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
Lapis Lazuli (for Henry Clifton) by William Butler Yeats
Leda And The Swan by William Butler Yeats
Memory by William Butler Yeats
The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats
Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
The Three Hermits by William Butler Yeats
The Tower by William Butler Yeats
Under Ben Bulben by William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans At Coole by William Butler Yeats
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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