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| Thanks | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Finding Myself | |
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| The Way of the Three Steps: A Native American Way to Begin the Day | |
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| The Truth About Myself | |
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| How Could I Reject Who I Am? | |
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| Lord of Healing | |
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| The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow | |
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| Listen | |
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| Gestalt at Sixty | |
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| Wild longing in my eyes | |
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| Prayer | |
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| Prelude to The Dance | |
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| Grace for My Twenty-Fifth Year | |
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| Handicaps | |
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| The Well | |
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| Order of Melchizedek | |
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| Bonsai | |
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| I Was Obsessed | |
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| Our deepest fear | |
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| Lord, not you | |
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| Blessed Are You | |
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| Be Who You Are | |
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| It is by seeking | |
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| O Lord, One tiny bit of water | |
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| The Mother Line | |
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| Pastoral | |
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| The Boston School of Cooking Cookbook | |
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| I Have So Much I Can Teach Her | |
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| The Meaning of Bones | |
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| The Tablecloth | |
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| Dying at 31 | |
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| Source | |
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| Oh, God, thank you for the child I carry | |
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| To Jacqueline, Age 2, in Her Great-Grandmother's House | |
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| Cost of Living | |
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| Prayer for Easy Labor | |
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| Consecration | |
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| 35/10 Sharon Olds to dance at your daughter's wedding | |
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| Gift from My Mother | |
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| Your Clothes | |
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| To Elvira, My Maternal Grandmother | |
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| The Turning Point | |
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| What Came to Me | |
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| The Power in My Mother's Arms | |
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| Chains of Fire | |
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| Mother of Mothers | |
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| Gathering Our Inner Strengths | |
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| Letting Go | |
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| A Cedary Fragrance | |
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| Self-Giving | |
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| Three times each day | |
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| From Self-Consciousness to Happiness | |
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| Learning to Grow | |
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| May you be drenched with the longing for peace | |
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| The Last Story | |
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| As I light these Sabbath candles | |
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| In Pain | |
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| Buddhist Vow | |
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| Moments of Real Grace | |
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| Life in Ravensbruck | |
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| Women Who Light Lives | |
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| Purnima | |
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| We see you | |
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| How can you go on sleeping | |
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| Breakdown | |
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| I Taught Myself to Live Simply | |
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| God Alone Suffices | |
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| May the Blessing of Rain Be on You | |
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| Finding Heaven in Mother Earth | |
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| A vein of sapphires | |
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| Sow in me your living breath | |
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| His Heart Shone Right Out of His Eyes | |
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| Play in this universe | |
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| The Seven Directions | |
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| The little cares | |
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| Earth Teach Me | |
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| The Holy may speak to you | |
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| The Sapphire | |
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| How Should I Fear to Die? | |
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| The Stars | |
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| The mountain | |
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| The Sacred Berry | |
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| This Island, This Season | |
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| I know I am made from this earth | |
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| Spiritual Life | |
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| I think everything and everyone slept that afternoon | |
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| How shall I begin my song | |
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| Earth is crammed with heaven | |
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| The Prayer of the Cat | |
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| My Lord, Lord of the mountain grove Andal and how could anyone believe | |
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| For All Our Needs | |
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| Ti Prego M.P.A. Sheaffer | |
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| God our Mother, Living Water | |
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| A Prayer for Spiritual Teachers | |
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| Brigid's Feast | |
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| Give Me Someone | |
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| Different Ways to Pray | |
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| May I be free from danger | |
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| Open our eyes to see our own part | |
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| Help in Old Age from the Mother | |
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| Make us ready, Lord | |
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| Prayer for Village Earth | |
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| Prayer for Beauty | |
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| Prayer for a Child While Listening to Rachmaninoff | |
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| Prayer for Wellness | |
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| Metta Prayer | |
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| At Work | |
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| A Zen Prayer for Preparing a Meal: How to Stuff a Pepper | |
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| Kalighat | |
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| You Can Also Pray While You Work | |
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| A Pediatrician's Prayer for Perfection | |
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| What Must I Do? | |
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| Litany of Sorrow for Denying Women Authority | |
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| Litany of Blessing for a Woman Taking Authority | |
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| I saw God in an instant of time | |
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| My Poems | |
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| Prayer Before Work | |
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| Lord of all the world | |
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| Cleaning Rice | |
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| Too Much to Do | |
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| Radiating Pain | |
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| May there always be work | |
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| Doing the Best We Can | |
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| The Great Work | |
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| Go Forward Securely | |
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| Grateful for Everything | |
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| Magnificat | |
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| Unexpected Blessings | |
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| To Sing Is to Praise | |
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| Faithfulness | |
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| For the Darkness | |
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| To Our First Grandmother | |
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| Gratitude | |
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| Celtic Thanksgiving | |
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| All you clear and shimmering waters | |
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| Thank you, my dear | |
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| Theology | |
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| Thank You | |
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| I Arise Today | |
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| The Flowers | |
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| Praise to You Spirit of Fire! | |
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| Give Thanks for Everything | |
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| Out of Darkness | |
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| Mother Wisdom Speaks | |
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| Why Do You Hide Yourself? | |
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| Dear God, it is so hard | |
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| Passing the Refugee Camp | |
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| For Victims of War and Refugees | |
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| Lament for September 11, 2001 | |
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| The Next Day: 9/12/01 | |
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| For the 500th Dead Palestinian: Ibtisam Bozieh | |
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| In the Cemetery of Your City: Israel, March 6, 2002 | |
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| What Is Happening | |
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| Prayer from Auschwitz | |
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| Bodhi | |
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| Not Without Longing | |
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| In the morning | |
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| I saw you in the doorway Miriam | |
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| From moment to moment | |
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| May the angel of God make smooth the road | |
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| Psalms of a Laywoman | |
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| There is a Brokenness | |
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| Our Spiritual and Mystical Experience | |
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| Preparing to Greet the Goddess | |
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| Fire in Water | |
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| As a silkworm weaves | |
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| You | |
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| The desert waits | |
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| Enter and penetrate | |
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| The Sacredness of Time | |
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| Speak and Write What You See and Hear! | |
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| Dangerous Prayers | |
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| Clea--La Chanson de Ma Mie' | |
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| The silence is all there is | |
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| Oh God, whose true nature I cannot know | |
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| With Your Light | |
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| When We Stumble and Find It | |
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| Mahakranti: The Endtime | |
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| Invocation to the Light, December 2001 | |
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| I come in the little things | |
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| God Everywhere | |
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| God is | |
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| Beautiful One | |
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| A Way In | |
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| A Thousand Ways | |
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| Love | |
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| And you held me | |
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| Black and White Blessing | |
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| Balada | |
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| I am watching all the roads | |
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| Between Words | |
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| Do you ever wonder | |
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| And so it came | |
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| A long time I have lived with you | |
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| First Passion | |
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| One must go down | |
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| To Aphrodite | |
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| Who Will Teach Me Now? | |
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| The Soul in Love | |
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| My Book Was Begun in Love | |
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| You Have Come, My Beloved | |
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| No Words At All, Just Love | |
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| Mira Speaks to Her Lord | |
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| A Dying Grandfather's Prayer | |
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| To Be an Island in the Sea | |
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| In this still moment, Lord | |
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| Cold | |
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| I Am My Beloved's | |
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| All She Needed That Day | |
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| To what shall I liken you, Lord? | |
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| Index of Authors and Sources | |
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| Index of Titles or First Lines | |
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| Permissions and Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Editor | |