Why does my lover rage - Moses ibn Ezra

Why does my lover rage and tyrannize me,
      While my heart
            Bends like a reed to him?

I hope so much - Mas'ud-i Sa'd-i Salmān

I am a fallen person in a thousand sorrows
In each breath my life's looking to end

Written While Drunk in Lake-View Pavilion on the 27th Day of the Sixth Month - Su Shi

The inky clouds fly in, but do not hide the hills,
As random drops of white rain leap into the boats.

Leavetaking - Ibn Jakh

On the morning they left
we said goodbye
filled with sadness
for the absence to come.

Empty Me of Everything But Your Love - Abdullah Ansari

Lord, send me staggering with the wine
Of Your love!

Birth, Old Age, Sickness, Death - Dieu Nhan

Birth, old age, sickness, death
Are commonplace and natural.
Should we seek relief from one,
Another will surely consume us.

O Saviour of the nations - Otloh of St Emmeram

O Saviour of the nations,

Creator of the skies, 

Our single hope, our glory, 

To thee our song shall rise.

If you are seeking closeness to the Beloved - Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

If you are seeking closeness to the Beloved,

love everyone.

Odin's Rune Song - Sæmundr Sigfússon

I know that I hung, on a wind-rocked tree, nine whole nights, with a spear wounded, and to Odin offered, myself to myself; on that tree, of which no one knows from what root it springs.

Holy Spirit, come and shine - Hermann Contractus

Holy Spirit, come and shine

Sweetly in this heart of mine,

With Thy heavenly love and light;

Come, Thou Father of the poor,

Come, Thou Giver, great and sure;

Come, and make my spirit bright!

The living God we praise - Moses ibn Ezra

The living God we praise, exalt, adore!

He was, He is, He will be evermore.

When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild - Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

When you told us our glances, soft, timid, and mild,

      Could occasion such wounds in the heart,

Can ye wonder that yours, so ungovern’d and wild,

      Some wounds to our cheeks should impart?

Christ, the victim undefiled - Wipo of Burgundy

Christ the Lord is risen today;

Christians, haste your vows to pay;

Offer ye your praises meet

At the Paschal Victim’s feet.

To St. Paul - Peter Damian

Learned Paul, thy sounding voice,

A trumpet, makes the church rejoice

Thou flying cloud of fiery birth,

Thy wisdom circles all the earth.

Praise be to Thee, O Christ, the Creator - Godescalcus

Praise be to Thee, O Christ, the Creator, the Redeemer, and the Saviour.

Of the heaven, the earth, the sea, angels, and men.

Whom alone we confess to be God and Man.

O soul, with storms beset - Solomon ibn Gabirol

O soul, with storms beset! 

Thy griefs and cares forget. 

Why dread earth's transient woe, 

When soon thy body in the grave unseen 

Shall be laid low, 

And all will be forgotten then, as though 

It had not been ? 

Vesper hymn to the Virgin - Hermann Contractus

Mother of majesty, 

God's love adorning, 

Thou that hast oped for man 

O brook - Moses ibn Ezra

O brook, whose hurrying waters go

To the far land that holds my friend,

By thee, my greeting let me send;

I Have forgotten - Milarepa

May I be far removed from contending creeds and dogmas.

Ever since my Lord’s grace entered my mind,

My mind has never strayed to seek such distractions.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion,

I have forgotten all difference between myself and others.

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Quatrains XIII - XXIII) - Omar Khayyám

Look to the Rose that blows about us — 'Lo, 

Laughing' she says, 'into the World I blow; 

At once the silken Tassel of my Purse 

Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.'