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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AD ARMA!, by CHARLES ANDERSON DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh loiterer, that dalliest with thy dreams
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


AFTERNOON, by CAROLINE TAPPAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lie upon the earth and feed upon the sky
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


ALL I WAS DOING WAS BREATHING, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Something has reached out and taken in the beams of my eyes
Last Line: Mira says: without the energy that lifts mountains, how am ito live?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


ANKLE BELLS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mira dances, how can her ankle bells not dance
Last Line: Mira's lord attacks the beings of greed; for safety I go to him
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


ANOTHER NIGHT / SLEEPLESS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The bright dawn
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Insomnia; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


ANOTHER NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: He knows mira's anguish
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


ARS POETICA, ET HUMANA, by JOHN ALBEE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dost thou, beloved, see
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


ART AND ARTIST, by CAROLINE TAPPAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With dauntless eye the lofty one
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Transcendentalism


ART-SERVICE, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wandered with an earnest heart
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


AT THE HOLI FESTIVAL OF COLOR, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira belongs to girdhar nagar, %a slave at his feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


BANKRUPT, by CHARLES ANDERSON DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: With what a deep and ever deeper joy
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


BEETHOVEN, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lo, the strong eagle, through the storm and night
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Music And Musicians; Transcendentalism


BINDING MY ANKLES WITH SILVER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira's lord can lift mountains, %he is her refuge
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


BINDING MY ANKLES WITH SILVER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira's lord can lift mountains, %he is her refuge
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


BIRTH-DAY PRAYER, by FRANCIS ELLINWOOD ABBOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Art thou the life?
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


BLEST SPIRIT OF MY LIFE, by JOHN WEISS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


BRIGHTEST LIGHT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tranced, almost disappeared into the glare
Last Line: I would like to catch him when he falls
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Transcendentalism


BROOK, by CAROLINE TAPPAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the eyes I ever knew
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


CHARMER STOLE MY RING, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Looking for your face. %where are you?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


CLOUDS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I saw the dark clouds, I wept, oh dark one, I wept at %the dark clouds
Last Line: He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he %has passed
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


CLOUDS / I WATCHED AS THEY RUPTURED, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: This passion has yet %to be slaked
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


COFFER WITH THE POISONOUS SNAKE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rana sent a gold coffer of complicated ivory
Last Line: Had found its way in through the open window
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


COME TO ME, CLOUD, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Than anyone needs
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


COME TO MY BEDROOM, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is all she requests
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


COME, O ALOOF ONE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And she calls you the %giver of joy
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


COMPREHENSION, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Foot surer that his, crossing o'er
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


CONFESSIO AMANTIS, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I still can suffer pain
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


CONTENT, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the unpainted cottage dwell
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


CROOKED FATE -- / CROOKED DECREE!, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Even the beggars of god %are made outlaw
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


DANCING BEFORE HIM, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: He has seized me and stained me, %that dark one
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


DARE AND KNOW, by GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The truths we cannot win are fruit forbidden
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


DARK FRIEND, WHAT CAN I SAY, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira flees from lifetime to lifetime, %your virgin
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


DARK ONE, by MIRABAI                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark one, / all I request is a portion of love
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Variant Title(s): Meera
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision; Fancy


DARK ONE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark one, %all I request is a portion of love
Last Line: You've taken %this girl past the limits
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


DARK ONE'S LOVE-STAIN, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To ride on the haunch %of an ass
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


DARK ONE, / HOW CAN I SLEEP?, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira waits for a single glance from your eye
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


DARK ONE, / WHERE ARE WE GOING?, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who heaps birth upon birth
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


DENIAL, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The two best gifts in all the perfect world
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


DON'T BLOCK MY WAY, FRIEND, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To slake her thirst %at his fountain
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


DON'T GO, DON'T GO, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't go, don't go. I touch your soles. I'm sold to you
Last Line: Mira says: you who lift the mountains, I have some light, I want to mingle it with yours
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


DOWN BY THE RIVER A FLUTE!, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lord, this stumbling body, %free it from torment
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


DREADFUL CUCKOO, / WHO SAID YOU COULD SING ABOUT LOVE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Come quietly [or, quickly], %your absence destroys me
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


DRUNK, TURBULENT CLOUDS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Infidelity spits like a snake
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


DRUNK, TURBULENT CLOUDS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Infidelity spits %like a snake
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


EMERSON, by FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lonely these meadows green
Subject(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Transcendentalism


ENCOURAGEMENT, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O friend divine, this promise dear
Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


ETERNAL PAN, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All the forms are fugitive
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


ETERNITY, by CHARLES ANDERSON DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Utter no whisper of thy human speech
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


FAITHFULNESS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend, he looked, and our eyes met; an arrow came in
Last Line: Mira says: the town thinks I am loose, but I am faithful to %the dark one
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


FOUR WHITE LILIES, by ANNA CALLENDER BRACKETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas a vision, a dream of the night
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Transcendentalism


FRANKNESS OF NATURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When in a book I find a pleasant thought
Subject(s): Nature; Transcendentalism


FRIEND, / THOUGH THE WORLD SLEEPS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Strips her of pain [or, eases her pain]
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


FRIEND, DON'T BE ANGRY, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira is desolate because you are not %with her. %take her to you
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


FRIEND, HOW CAN I MEET MY LORD?, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When we come together, %let us never again be torn apart
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


FRIEND, I SEE / ONLY THE DARK ONE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She ambles the back %country roads
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


FRIEND, WITHOUT THAT DARK RAPTOR, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: No one else %slakes [or, could slake] her desire
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


FRIENDSHIP, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor elsewise man shall fellow meet
Subject(s): Friendship; Transcendentalism


FUTURE IS BETTER THAN THE PAST, by ELIZA THAYER CLAPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not where long-passed ages sleep
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


GLIMPSE OF YOUR BODY, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Where every secret is known
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


GO! GO TO THAT LAND, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Then heed the songs of your %king
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


GOAL, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sprang on life's free course, I tasked myself
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


GONE MAD, SISTER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The power of seven %musical notes
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


GOOD FORTUNE, MY PRINCE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With dust from a %holy man's feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


GOWARD, by FRANCIS ELLINWOOD ABBOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou soul that overlightest mine!
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


GUIDE THIS LITLE BOAT, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Put an end to coming %and going
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


GUIDE THIS LITTLE BOAT, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Put an end to coming %and going
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


HARI HELPS HIS PEOPLE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira says: prince girdhar, %help me
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HARI, LOOK AT ME A WHILE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira's hari is imperishable. %her life is this
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HAVING WET ME WITH LOVE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Either way mira's dead - %unless you return
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HE HAS STAINED ME, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Birth after birth %she is his
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HE HAS STAINED ME, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Birth after birth %she is his
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


HE TOOK HIS SWORD AND CUT ME, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I mope outside the walls of paradise
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Variant Title(s): He Took His Swor
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HE'S GONE / FRIEND, AND I SUFFER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We call refuge in you %'the beyond.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HEAR MY PLEA, DARK ONE, I AM, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: With me clasping your feet forever
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


HEAT OF MIDNIGHT TEARS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, my friend, this road is the heart opening
Last Line: Mirabai says, 'the heat of midnight tears will bring you to god'
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


HEAVEN'S LAND, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once parted from the head
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HERE IS MY DRESS. WITH HIM, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I put my clothes on after we leave the bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Variant Title(s): Here Is My Dres
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HERO, by CAROLINE TAPPAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou hast learned the woes of all the world!
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


HERZLIEBSTE, by CHARLES ANDERSON DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love for thee hath grown as grows the flowers
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


HIS HAIR, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You play the flute well; I love your swing curls and your
Last Line: She turns her life over to the midnight of his hair
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HOW BITTER IS CARNIVAL DAY, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Birth after birth %a virgin
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HUMAN HELPERS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise, praise ye the prophets, the sages
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


HUNGRY EYES AND I / CRAVE HIM, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into the hands of her dark one -- %birth after birth
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


HYMN AND PRAYER, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Infinite spirit! Who art round us ever
Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F.
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


HYMN OF A SPIRIT SHROUDED, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, who, in thy dear still heaven
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


HYMN TO THE GOD OF THE STARS, by ELIZA THAYER CLAPP    Poem Source                    
First Line: God of those splendid stars! I need
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


I AM YOUR SLAVE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: By the river %just for a glimpse
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


I CAN'T BREAK WITH THE DARK ONE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Away from her lover, mira is in agony. %lord, come. Let her see you
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


I DON'T SLEEP. ALL NIGHT, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira is lost, %her senses are dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


I HAVE TALKED TO YOU, TALKED, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through life after life, %a virginal harvest for you to reap
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Spiritual Life; Transcendentalism; Women And Religion


I SCRAWL / ENDLESS LETTERS AND SEND THEM, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We were lovers in a previous %life
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


I SHALL BE SATISFIED WHEN I AWAKE WITH THY LIKENESS, by EDNAH DOW CHENEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Waken in thy likeness,' meet thee face to face
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


I WAS GOING TO THE RIVER FOR WATER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: What he wishes to be, he is
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


I WILL SING OUT HIS BEAUTIES!, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She's taken the dark one %off her bridal bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


I'VE TASTED IT, DRUNK ONE,, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: He befriends whomever he chooses
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


IDEAL WINS, by GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though hunger sharpens in the dream of food
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


IDEALS, by DAVID ATWOOD WASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Angels of growth, of old in that surprise
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


IMMANUEL, by GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The law which spheres the hugest sun
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


IN MY DREAM, SISTER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Bears its [or, comes to] fruit
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


IT'S A CURSE -- / I DON'T EVEN, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Touch me once, %you won't get away
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


IT'S TRUE I WENT TO THE MARKET, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend, I went to the market and bought the dark one
Last Line: Be with me when I lie down; you promised me this in an earlier life
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


JAR OF ROSE-LEAVES, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Myriad roses fade unheeded
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


JUDGMENT: BHAGAVAD GITA PREFACE TRANSCENDENTAL, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1855 walt whitman rhapsodized that the great poet
Last Line: Does it, as aftersoul envelops all helpless things
Subject(s): Change; Transcendentalism


LET ME SEE YOU, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: When will she see you? %she spends her days looking for crows
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


LET THEM GOSSIP, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: He has aroused her
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


LIFE A TEMPLE, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The temple round
Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


LIFE ON THIS PLANET IS FRAGILE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But I'm the one %who crosses the limits [or, but it's me who crosses %the limits]
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


LINES, by CAROLINE TAPPAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You go to the woods - what there have you seen?
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


LISTEN, FRIEND, / THE DARK ONE LAUGHS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: How can mira %endure her own body
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


LOVE HAS STAINED MY BODY, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Day or night, she waits only on him
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


MAN, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He omnipresent is
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


MATINS, by FRANCIS ELLINWOOD ABBOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly the sun climbs up the amber east
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


MATTER, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the chaos dawns in sight
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


METHOD, by JOHN WEISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Central axis, pole of pole
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


MIRA IS DANCING, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mira is dancing with bells tied %on her ankles
Last Line: Only he %is her ultimate protector
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Variant Title(s): Mira Is Dancing With Bells Tie
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


MURARI YANKED / AT MY SKIRT, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I lower my head %to his feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


MUSIC, by JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Music's the measure of the planet's motion
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


MUSIC, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend, the stain of the great dancer has penetrated my body
Last Line: The great dancer is my husband, mira says, rain washes %off all the other colors
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


MUSIC AND MEMORY, by JOHN ALBEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enchantress, touch no more that strain
Last Line: Still bringing all the pain they cost.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Transcendentalism


MY BELOVED IS LOVELY TO LOOK AT, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To be human and not know the lord %is truly the womb of sorrow
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


MY DARK ONE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To what cannot perish %her dark one
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


MY DARK ONE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: To what cannot perish, %her dark one
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


MY EYES ARE THRISTY, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But mira is sold to hari. %she is his slave for many lives
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


MY LIFE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My life has been the poem I could have writ
Last Line: But I could not both live and utter it.
Subject(s): Life; Transcendentalism


MY LOVE IS IN MY HOUSE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira is an ocean of joy. %she takes him inside
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


MY LOVER'S SHADOW, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A ruin from %birth
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


MY TWO QUESTS, by JOHN WEISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, many trees watch east
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


NATURE, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the universe, - I love the joy
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


NIGHT IS PAINTED RED, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Birth after birth. %he's taken me
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


NIRVANA, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the scholar's glowing page
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


NO MORE SEA, by ELIZA SCUDDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life of our life, and light of all our seeing
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


NO, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: What does he know about cracked souls?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


O CREATURES OF EARTH, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: He wipes out her ill [or, evil] karma %body and mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


O FRIENDS, I AM MAD, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira calls her lord: o dark one, %only you can heal this pain
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


O MIND, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mind, %praise the lotus feet that don't perish
Last Line: Then cut the cords and %set her free
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


O MY FRIENDS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She says, the single lotus will swallow you whole
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


O SWEET TONGUED ENCHANTER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I'll beat it out %on my drum
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


OCEAN, by SARAH MARGARET FULLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, brother, what are we?
Alternate Author Name(s): Fuller, Margaret; Ossoli, Marchioness; Ossoli, Margaret Fuller
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


ODE TO A BUTTERFLY, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou spark of life that wavest wings of gold
Last Line: Symbol of life, me with such faith endow!
Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Transcendentalism; Bugs


OH I SAW WITCHCRAFT TONIGHT, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Tonight she saw witchcraft %at braj
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


OLD SONG AND THE NEW, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Close are the shadows and dim is the day
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


ONE ABOUT TO DIE, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, melancholy liberty
Subject(s): Death; Transcendentalism


OPEN SECRET, by SYDNEY HENRY MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not through nature shineth
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


OUR BIRTHRIGHT, by GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As children of the infinite soul
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


OUT IN A DOWNPOUR, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: My lord, when %are you coming
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


OVER THE TREES, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But today his passion %seems distant and faint
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


PASSION, / PASSION'S THE DAGGER THAT, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Now I see omens
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


PEACE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not in seeking
Last Line: Lo! Peace is here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Peace; Transcendentalism


PLUMS TASTED, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was a cowherding girl %at gokul
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


PLUMS TASTED, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Was a cowherding girl %at gokul
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


POET, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He touched the earth, a soul of flame
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Transcendentalism


POET'S OBEDIENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only as thou herein canst not see me
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Transcendentalism


PRESENCE, by JONES VERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit within my room, and joy to find
Last Line: Whene'er I turn, art ever with me there
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


PRICE OF THE DIVINA COMMEDIA, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give, - you need not see the face
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


PRIMAVERA, THE BREATH OF SPRING, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With the rush and whirl of the fleet wild brook
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


RAMA IS MY BOX OF GEMS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: He is rowing me across
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


RANA, I KNOW YOU GAVE ME POISON, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira's lord knows she is his servant
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


RANA, WHY DO YOU TREAT ME, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira has her lord girdhar, %who turns poison into nectar
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


REFUGE IN YOU, DARK ONE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Spring her from this noose we call 'world'
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


REJOICING IN THE RAINY SEASON: 1, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rainy season's clouds now mark
Last Line: To utter songs of joy
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Rain; Transcendentalism


REJOICING IN THE RAINY SEASON: 2, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fill up with water, cloud, and come!
Last Line: The lucky come to you
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Rain; Transcendentalism


REMEMBER OUR PLEDGE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira knows you're with %somebody else
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


REMEMBERED LOVE, by JOHN ALBEE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As two birds journeying from different lands
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


RUMORS FROM AN AEOLIAN HARP, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a vale which none hath seen
Last Line: Their thoughts conversing with the sky.
Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Transcendentalism; Lyres


SAADI'S THINKING, by JOHN WEISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Such a noon as thought has made!
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SEER'S RATIONS, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Takes sunbeams, spring waters
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SERVICE, by SYDNEY HENRY MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fret not that the day is gone
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SHAME WOULD KILL / THESE PEOPLE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: At the lotus feet %of her dark one
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


SHIPWRECK IN HAVEN: 4, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fate is cleverer than the king
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SHIPWRECK IN HAVEN: 5, by KEITH WALDROP    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: After this, the cold more intense, and the night comes rapidly up
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SILENT, by JONES VERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a sighing in the wood
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SISTER, / I WENT INTO MARKET, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We struck a bargain %lifetimes ago
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


SISTER, THE DARK ONE WON'T SPEAK TO ME, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira's whole life is a long %night of craving
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


SISTER, THE DARK ONE WON'T SPEAK TO ME, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira's whole life is a long %night of craving
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


SISTER, THE ENCHANTER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Chose whom to sleep with
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


SNARED ME -- / AND NOW THE ENCHANTER HAS VANISHED!, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But look at mira -- %she dies like a slave
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


SOMEWHERE, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere awaits the treasures we have strewn
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SON, by JONES VERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father, I wait thy word. The sun doth stand
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SONNET: 8. TO M. W., ON HER BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born
Last Line: Through time, and part it from eternity.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To - , On Her Birth-day;to Irene On Her Birthday
Subject(s): Birthdays; Transcendentalism


SOUL, by WILLIAM HENRY FURNESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is this that stirs within
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


STANZAS, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the heaven is generation
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


STANZAS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature doth have her dawn each day, / but mine are far between
Last Line: With fairest summer weather.
Subject(s): Nature; Sun; Transcendentalism


STRAIGHT ROAD, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty may be the path to highest good
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


STUMBLING ABOUT, / A CLAY POT ON HER HEAD, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her mouth full of garble
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


SUB ROSA, CRUX, by MARGARET FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In times of old, as we are told
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


SUMMER MORNING HOUR WITH NATURE, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night has gathered up her moonlit fringes
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


TAKE A YOGIN, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But tonight I'm an utter wreck
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


TAKE MY ARM / AND KEEP UP YOUR PROMISE!, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: At stake is your honor
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


TAKE MY MESSAGE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: She might as well give him %body and mind
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


TEN THOUSAND THANKS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Shyam, the ocean of pleasure %has come into me
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


TEN THOUSAND THANKS, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has come into me
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


TERRIBLE SOLITUDE / FESTIVAL DAY, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Dark one's away %she wilts in the rubble
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


THANKSGIVING, by ELIZA SCUDDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For the rapt stillness of the place
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


THE HEART'S CURE, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart, heart, lie still!'
Last Line: "and I am still"" --"
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


THE HOUSE OF REST, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will build a house of rest
Last Line: Can I build the house of rest.
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


THE SANCTUARY: 6. LOVE TRANSCENDENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When time shall cease and the world be ended
Last Line: O my saint with the sinless eyes!
Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Soul; Transcendentalism; Paradise


THICK OVERHEAD / CLOUDS OF THE MONSOON, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's time to take my songs %into the street
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


THIS INFAMY, O MY PRINCE,, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Rake only themselves %over the coals
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


THIS IS THE SEAL OF, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Life after life %she awaits his arrival
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


THOUGHT OF GOD, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One thought I have, my ample creed
Last Line: My rest by night, my strength by day, %o blessed thought of god!
Subject(s): God; Transcendentalism


THOUGHTS, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bible is a book worthy to read
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


TILL LOVE BE WHOLE, by SYDNEY HENRY MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soul I swell within
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


TO BE BORN IN THIS HUMAN BODY IS RARE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Awaken and sleep no more - %brief are the days of life
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


TO THE IDEAL, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! What avails it thus to dream of thee
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


TO THE POETS, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They who sing the deeds of men
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


TRANQUILLITY, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weary, and marred with care and pain
Last Line: That doth the worlds with music fill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


TRANSCENDENTALISM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it is told, in buddhi-theosophic schools"
Subject(s): Buddhism;transcendentalism; Buddha;buddhists


TRANSCENDENTALISM, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dark abyss where nothing is
Last Line: The modern saint and sibyl leap.
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


TWO MOODS, by SYDNEY HENRY MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The truth shall bind,' quoth he
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


UNA, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are centered deeper far
Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


UNABLE TO LIVE SINCE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fetch me home
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


UNBREAKABLE, O LORD, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: O my beloved - %return
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


VESPER HYMN, by ELIZA SCUDDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is done, the weary day of thought and toil is past
Last Line: At morn, at night, in earth, in heaven, be thou my first and last!
Subject(s): Transcendentalism; Worship


VIA SACRA, by CHARLES ANDERSON DANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slowly along the crowded street I go
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


VICTORY, by SYDNEY HENRY MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: To do the tasks of life, and not be lost
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


VIOLET, by JONES VERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou tellest truths unspoken yet by man
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


VOICE OF THE PINE, by CHARLES TIMOTHY BROOKS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O tall old pine! O gloomy pine!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, C. T.
Subject(s): Pine Trees; Transcendentalism; Trees


WAIFS, by SYDNEY HENRY MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gird thee, gird thee, soldier strong!
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


WAITING HELP, by EDNAH DOW CHENEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whate'er the name, whate'er the power
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


WAKE UP, / MY LOVER OF WOMEN, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: But you must come %seeking refuge
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


WAKE, CHILD / WITH THE FLUTE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Handsome girdhar, mira's lord, %saves those who come to be saved
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


WARNING, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Power, reft of aspirarion
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


WAY, by SYDNEY HENRY MORSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They find the way who linger here
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


WELTSCHMERZ, by JOEL BENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The child-eyed wonder with which life began
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


WHAT IS THIS ANGER, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Calling your name %every time
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


WHEN CAN I MEET / THE DARK LORD?, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fate never swerves from its course
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


WHEN I DON'T SEE YOU, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Maybe we'll be one. %a sea of pleasure
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


WHIPPOORWILL, by JOEL BENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the summer nights, when the world's tumult stills
Subject(s): Birds; Transcendentalism; Whipporwills


WHO WERT AND ART AND EVER MORE SHALL BE, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring, o morn, thy music! Bring, on night, thy hushes!
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


WHOM [OR WHO] BUT THEE, by ELIZA SCUDDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From past regret and present faithlessness
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


WHY LIFE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: O beloved, take this raft quickly %and lead it to shore
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


WHY MIRA CAN'T GO BACK TO HER OLD HOUSE, by MIRABAI    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The colors of the dark one have penetrated mira's body
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Variant Title(s): Meera
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision; Fancy


WHY MIRA CAN'T GO BACK TO HER OLD HOUSE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The colors of the dark one have penetrated mira's body
Last Line: And now you want me to climb on a jackass? Try to be serious!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


WHY THIS IMPULSE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Singing from deep %in your throat
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


WHY THIS IMPULSE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Singing from the deep in your throat
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


WIEGENLIED, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still and sleep, my soul!
Last Line: Be still and sleep, my soul!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Sleep; Soul; Transcendentalism


WINTER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bird sings not in wintertime
Subject(s): Transcendentalism; Winter


WOLFISH EYES DEVOURING THE DARK ONE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without the dark one's approval %nothing survives
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


WORD OF GOD, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It sounds along the ages
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


WORK WHILE IT IS DAY, by JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Work, and thou wilt bless the day
Subject(s): Transcendentalism


YOGI, DON'T GO AWAY, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Mira says: lord girdhar nagar, %let our fires unite
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


YOGIN, A SINGLE GLIMPSE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Look at mira's black hair %it's turned white
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


YOGIN, DON'T GO, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Can flame twist upon flame
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


YOGIN, I DID NOT TOUCH, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Has been written by fate
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


YOGIN, I DID NOT TOUCH, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: What mira obtains %has been written by fate
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Imagination; Krishna (god); Transcendentalism; Vision


YOU PRESSED MIRA'S SEAL OF LOVE, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: You touched her intimate seal %and then left
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism


YOUR COLORFUL KINGDOM / JUST BORES ME, by MIRABAI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A lover who fills her %completely
Alternate Author Name(s): Mira Bai; Mira
Subject(s): Krishna (god); Transcendentalism