From Stephen Mitchell comes an anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions--the perfect companion to Mitchel'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