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"Great literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of happiness and well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense. Presented in 14 thematic sections, these works offer inspiring readings on wisdom, self-love, ecstasy, growth, righteousness, love and lust, inspiration, oneness with nature, hope, irreverence, awe, the delights of the senses, gratitude and compassion, relation to the sacred, justice, and unity. At times elegant, at others blunt, these poems reflect on what it means to live a rich, fulfilling life."--EBSCO Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; About the Editors ; Introduction by D.J. Moores ; Cycle 1. Wisdom ; William Blake; William Wordsworth; Alexander S. Pushkin; Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson; Stephen Crane; E.E. Cummings; Chinmoy Kumar Ghose; Adele Kenny; Bhikshuni Weisbrot; Cycle 2. Pride, Self-Love and Resilience; Thomas Traherne; Walt Whitman; Sara Teasdale; Langston Hughes; Charles Bukowski; Maya Angelou; Chinmoy Kumar Ghose; Joyce Snyder; Adele Kenny Cycle 4. Consciousness Expansion, Growth and Engagement with Unconscious Depths Fariduddin 'Attar; Kabir; Giacomo Leopardi; Alexander S. Pushkin; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Walt Whitman; Matthew Arnold; Emily Dickinson; Rabindranath Tagore; C.D. Balmont; V.Y. Bryusov; Edward Field; Wendell Berry; Joyce Snyder; Joy Harjo; Bhikshuni Weisbrot; Daniel Weeks; Cycle 5. Romantic Love and Lust ; Hebrew Bible; Dante Alighieri; Robert Herrick; Thomas Carew; Andrew Marvell Cycle 3. Ecstasy, Elevation and Rapture Jalâl al-Din Rumi; Juan de la Cruz; Henry Vaughan; Baba Bulleh Shah; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Walt Whitman; Anne Brontë; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Emily Dickinson; Gerard Manley Hopkins; George Marion McClellan; Andrei Biely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev); William Carlos Williams; Siegfried Sassoon; Edna St. Vincent Millay; Sharon Olds; Bhikshuni Weisbrot; J.C. Augustine Wetta; Rachel Jamison Webster Dante Gabriel RossettiAuthur Rimbaud; Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov; James Weldon Johnson; Paul Lawrence Dunbar; Hilda Doolittle; Pablo Neruda; Stephen Spender; Allen Ginsberg; Daniel Weeks; Cycle 7. Relatedness to the Environment, Flora and Fauna ; Thomas Gray; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Philip Freneau; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; George Gordon, Lord Byron; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; John Greenleaf Whittier; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Henry David Thoreau; Walt Whitman; Gerard Manley Hopkins Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRobert Burns; Thomas Moore; Robert Browning; Walt Whitman; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; James Thomson; Oscar Wilde; V.Y. Bryusov; D.H. Lawrence; E.E. Cummings; Conrad Aiken; Pablo Neruda; Kevin Clark; Dorianne Laux; Allison Joseph; Rachel Jamison Webster; Brian Thornton; Cycle 6. Language, Inspiration and the Imagination ; Jane Colman Turell; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; William Wordsworth; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Walt Whitman; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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