The Enlightened Heart

From Stephen Mitchell comes an anthology of poetry chosen from the world''s great religious and literary traditions—the perfect companion to Mitchell''s bestselling translation of 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 • Wait Whitman • Emily Dickinson • Gerard Manley Hopkins • Uvavnuk • Anonymous Navaho • W. B. Yeats • Antonio Machado • Rainer Maria Rilke • Wallace Stevens • D.H. Lawrence • Robinson Jeffers