The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry

Edited by Stephen Mitchell

An anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions—the perfect companion to the best selling Tao Te Ching.

The Upanishads • The Book of Psalms • Lao–tzu • The Bhagavad Gita • Chuang–tzu • The Odes of Solomon • Seng–ts'an • Han–shan • Li Po • Tu Fu • Layman P'ang • Kukai • Tung–shan • Symeon the New Theologian • Izumi Shikibu • Su Tung–p'o • Hildegard of Bingen • Francis of Assisi • Wu–men • Dõgen • Rumi • Mechthild of Magdeburg • Dante • Kabir Mirabai • William Shakespeare • George Herbert • Bunan • Gensei • Angelus Silesius • Thomas Traherne • Basho • William Blake • Ryõkan • Issa • Ghalib • Bibi Hayati • Walt Whitman • Emily Dickinson • Gerard Manley Hopkins • Uvavnuk • Anonymous Navaho • W. B. Yeats • Antonio Machado • Rainer Maria Rilke • Wallace Stevens • D.H. Lawrence • Robinson Jeffers