Risking everything: 110 poems of love and revelation

When death comes / Mary Oliver

Love after love / Derek Walcott

Wild geese / Mary Oliver

Today I was happy, so I made this poem / James Wright

Poetry / Pablo Neruda

The gate / Marie Howe

Shoveling snow with Buddha / Billy Collins

We shall not cease (from Little Gidding) / T.S. Eliot

On angels / Czeslaw Milosz

Holy spirit / Hildegard of Bingen

People like us / Robert Bly

My dead friends / Marie Howe

Today, like every other day / Rumi

I am not I / Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón

Three times my life has opened / Jane Hirshfield

That day / Denise Levertov

Milkwee / James Wright

My fiftieth year / W.B. Yeats

So much happiness / Naomi Shihab Nye

On foot I had to walk through the solar systems / Edith Södergran

Sunset / Rainer Maria Rilke

The wind, one brilliant day / Antonio Machado

Everything is plundered / Anna Akhmatova

Weathering / Fleur Adcock

Is my soul asleep? / Antonio Machado

I have many brothers in the south / Rainer Maria Rilke

Sweet darkness / David Whyte

I thing continually of those who were truly great / Stephen Spender

Oceans / Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón

Water / Philip Larkin

The long boat / Stanley Kunitz

You see I want a lot / Rainer Maria Rilke

The journey / Mary Oliver

I take master card (charge your love to me) / Nikki Giovanni

The greatest love / Anna Swir

Rapture / Galway Kinnell

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey (excerpt) / William Wordworth

A homecoming / Wendell Berry

The very short sutra on the meeting of the Buddha and the Goddess / Rick Fields

Gift / Czeslaw Milosz

Notice / Steve Kowit

Things to think / Robert Bly

It's possible / Antonio Machado

The third body / Robert Bly

Dithyramb of a happy woman / Anna Swir

I unpetalled you / Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón

To have without holding / Marge Piercy

Deeper than love / D.H. Lawrence

All I was doing was breathing / Mirabai

Soul at the white heat ; Wild nights / Emily Dickinson

I thank you / E.E. Cummings

A blessing / James Wright

Postscript / Seamus Heaney

Ripeness / Jane Hirshfield

In Blackwater Woods / Mary Oliver

Parkinson's Disease / Galway Kinnell

Kindness / Naomi Shihab Nye

For the sake of strangers / Dorianne Laux

The same inside / Anna Swir

Oddjob, a bull terrier / Derek Walcott

For the raindrop / Ghalib

A place to sit ; Breath / Kabir

When the shoe fits / Chuang Tzu

Sometimes a man / Rainer Maria Rilke

The road not taken / Robert Frost

The well of grief / David Whyte

Encounter / Czeslaw Milosz

The promise / Marie Howe

O taste and see / Denise Levertov

Oatmeal / Galway Kinnell

Ode to my suit / Pablo Neruda

Snake / D.H. Lawrence

The peace of wild things / Wendell Berry

Ask me / William Stafford

The prelude I (excerpt) / William Wordsworth

The cellist / Galway Kinnell

This only / Czeslaw Milosz

Once only / Denise Levertov

This much I do remember / Billy Collins

Life / Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón

Tasting heaven / Robert Bly

The swan ; The man watching / Rainer Maria Rilke

The resemblance between your life and a dog / Robert Bly

Last night, as I was sleeping / Antonio Machado

The unknown flute ; The sound / Kabir

When the one I love / Hafez

O my friends / Mirabai

Thank you, my fate / Anna Swir

Some kiss we want / Rumi

Eyes / Czeslaw Milosz

Lake and maple / Jane Hirshfield

Gift / R.S. Thomas

The heat of midnight tears / Mirabai

The door / Jane Hirshfield

A strange feather / Hafiz

The man of Tao / Chuang Tzu

Fire in the Earth / David Whyte

The dove descending (from Little Gidding) / T.S. Eliot

The holy longing / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prayer is an egg / Rumi

Prayer / Carol Ann Duffy

This talking rag / Hafiz

Maybe / Mary Oliver

Dust / Dorianne Laux

Perfect joy / Chuang Tzu

Let's go home / Rumi.