Rumi : the book of love : poems of ecstasy and longing

Now in paperback, this is the definitive collection of America′s bestselling poet Rumi′s finest poems of love and lovers. In Coleman Barks′ delightful and wise renderings, these poems will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and out. ′There are lovers content with longing. I′m not one of them.′ Rumi is best known for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love of all kinds - erotic, divine, friendship -and Coleman Barks collects here the best of those poems, ranging from the ′wholeness′ one experiences with a true lover, to the grief of a lover′s loss, and all the states in between: from the madness of sudden love to the shifting of a romance to deep friendship - these poems cover all ′the magnificent regions of the heart′. Cover Title Page CONTENTS Preface Introduction: The Magnificent Regions of the Heart A Brief Account of Rumi’s Life Chapter One: Spontaneous Wandering Excuse My Wandering Five Things The Many Wines Cooked Heads Where You Love From You’ve So Distracted Me In Your Light I Learn How to Love Drumsound Rises on the Air Are You Jealous of the Ocean’s Generosity? There’s Nothing Ahead Chapter Two: Sohbet: Who You Talking To? Response to Your Question If You Want What Visible Reality Can Give Special Plates You Are Not Your Eyes What Was Said to the Rose The Music Imra’u ‘l-Qays Chapter Three: The Superabundance of Ordinary Being Zuleikha Put this Design in Your Carpet The Road Home This is Enough Uzayr Out of Nowhere A Horse Amazed Mouth Birdsong, Wind Begin Chapter Four: Sudden Wholeness This Market The Music We Are Walnuts You that Come to Birth and Bring the Mysteries No Better Gift This Moment this Love Comes to Rest in Me The Clear Bead at the Center Changes Everything A Thousand Half-Loves Pattern Auction Chapter Five: Escaping into Silence Quietness Some Kiss We Want The Waterwheel Blessing the Marriage Two Days of Silence I Hear Nothing in My Ear But Your Voice Which is Worth More, A Crowd of Thousands Passage into Silence Chapter Six: A New Life Escaping to the Forest Love Comes Sailing Through, And I Scream Any Chance Meeting Nasuh’s Changing If You Love Love What I Say Makes Me Drunk The Circle Chapter Seven: Grief The Death of Saladin Birdwings The Silent Articulation of a Face The Allure of Love Sky-Circles I Throw it All Away Your Face I’ve Broken Through to Longing Now The Center Leads to Love My Work is to Carry this Love Pale Sunlight The Purpose of Emotion The Ground’s Generosity Takes in Our Compost Chapter Eight: Tavern Madness I am a Glass of Wine with Dark Sediment Smoke I’m not Saying this Right Who Says Words with My Mouth? We have a Huge Barrel of Wine, But no Cups Real Value Comes with Madness A Cap to Wear in Both Worlds Midnight, But Your Forehead There’s a Strange Frenzy in My Head Fringe Drunks Fear the Police The Ache and Confusion Let the Lover be Disgraceful, Crazy Wonder without Willpower Chapter Nine: Absence Chapter Nine: Absence Candlelight Becomes Moth The Basket of Fresh Bread When you are with Everyone But Me This Torture Chapter Ten: Animal Energies Think That You’re Gliding out from the Face of a Cliff The Public Bath Mashallah Spirit and Body Breadmaking Sexual Urgency and True Virility Two Ways of Running Chapter Eleven: Love’s Secret Close to Being True What Hurts the Soul? Love is the way messengers Hidden Inside If Everyone Could See What Love Is They Try to Say What You Are, Spiritual or Sexual Come to the orchard in spring... Chapter Twelve: Love’s Discipline Who Makes These Changes? Drowning The Dog Problem Zikr The Core of Masculinity Clear Being The Soul’s Friend Longing The Morning Wind Spreads Its Fresh Smell What Draws You? Fear A Teacher’s Pay Looking into the Creek The Polisher Chapter Thirteen: Shift from Romance to Friendship Burnt Kabob Sitting in the Orchard The Prince of Kabul The Wrist If the Beloved is Everywhere The King, the Handmaiden, and The Doctor Reason has No Way to Say Chapter Fourteen: Union The Sunrise Ruby The Generations I Praise One Swaying Being Held Like This, To Draw in Milk Hangover Remorse Soul, Heart, and Body One Morning Today, Like Every Other Day, We Wake Up Empty Out Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing Chapter Fifteen: Die Before You Die Judge a Moth by the Beauty of its Candle Husam Lovers are Alive to the Extent That Quick Empty Boat In the Slaughterhouse of Love they Kill Only I Trust You Imadu’l-Mulk You Have Said What You Are Some Nights Stay Up Till Dawn Chapter Sixteen: Harsh Evidence Kharraqani’s Marriage Harsh Evidence The Stupid Things I’ve Done Candle at Noon Dervishes Doves When Words Are Tinged with Lying There You Are A Night Full of Talking That Hurts There’s a Shredding That’s Really a Healing Dance, When You’re Broken Open All I Know of Spirit Your Defects Chapter Seventeen: Meditation Pavane Rules About Restraint The Company of Lovers The Look That Opens Straw and Grasses Friend, Our Closeness is This Chapter Eighteen: Love Dogs The Ocean Surge Love Dogs Inside Water, A Waterwheel Turns No Better Love than Love with No Object A Great Wagon Blasphemy and the Core You’re Song Keep Walking, Though There’s No Place to Get To Chapter Nineteen: One Stroke Down Lightning, Your Presence I Can Break Off From Anyone The Friend Comes into My Body Wooden Cages More Range Ayaz and the King’s Pearl Hallaj Chapter Twenty: Love’s Excess The Source of Joy Roses Underfoot Poetry Birdsong from Inside the Egg Eastern Mystery No Flag Chapter Twenty-One: Love’s Bewilderment God only Knows, I don’t I Reach for a Piece of Wood. It Turns into a Lute In Complete Control, Pretending Control Moses and the Shepherd The Minute I Heard My First Love Story Morning Wind The Ocean’s Motion Ignorance Chapter Twenty-Two: Lord of the Heart I am so Small I Can Barely be Seen Eyes I am Filled With You When You Feel Your Lips Becoming Infinite The Granary The Gazing-House The Guest House The One Thing You Must Do This We Have Now A Note on Translation Notes Index of Titles and First Lines About the Author Credits Copyright Notice I take down my King James to look up the passage about love (charity) in 1 Corinthians 13.