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