Gathered in this volume are translations and versions of poems and aphorisms from Asian languages as varied as Urdu, Chinese, Sanskrit, Japanese, Persian, and Vietnamese. Included are poems by some of the world's greatest writers, deeply influential poets such as Rumi, Tu Fu, Li Po, and Muso Soseki, beautifully brought forward by one of the century's most celebrated poets. I Have Had A Companion On The Road Ghazal V Ghazal Xii Ghazal Xv Ghazal Xxi Ghazal Xxv Ghazal Xxxiv If You're Not Going To Sleep Love You Alone Have Been With Us That Moon Which The Sky Never Saw When The Heart Bursts Into Flame Wise Teacher Tell Me Even The Man Who Is Happy The Ideal Retreat From Kavikanthabharana Quiet Night Thoughts Oh The Sound Of Her Silk Sleeves Rebirth The Lake Of The Ten Thousand Mountains Abiding Mountain All On My Own I'm Happy All Worries And Troubles Among Rocks And Valleys Ancient Origin Another Summit Ashikaga Tadayoshi's Palace At Gen's Embarkation For Yuan China At Iku's Embarkation For Yuan China At The Nachi Kannon Hall At Whole-world-in-view Hut Bamboo Garden Beyond Light Beyond The World The Bridge Where The Moon Crosses Buddha's Satori By The Sea Cave Of The Thousand Pines Chick Feed Is What I Eat Clear Valley Climbing Down The Snowy Mountain Cloud Mountain A Curtain Of Cloud Hangs Digging Out The Buddha Relic Don't Ask Suspiciously Dragon-gate House Dry Tree East Of The Strait East Peak Flat Mountain For A Monk Going West For Gen The New Head Priest Of Erin-ji For Ko Who Has Come Back From China For Myo's Departure For Anzen-ji For Myo's Departure For Shofuku-ji For Sho The New Head Priest Of Erin-ju For Taihei Osho For Tetsu The New Head Priest Of Erin-ji For The Death Of A Monk For Years I Dug In The Earth The Fragrance Of The Udumbara Free Old Man From My Hut In Miura From The Beginning The Garden At The General's Residence The Gate Of Universal Light Gem Creek Gem Forest Gem Mountain Green Mountains Hall Of The Guardian God Heaven Peak House Of Spring Hui-ning's Pond Hut In Harmony I Wake From My Noon Nap I'm Not So Deep In It In These Mountain Villages And Harbor Towns In This Small Hut Inauguration Of Fukusan Dormitory Incomparable-verse Valley It Jewel Cliff Jewel Field Joy Mountain Lamenting The Civil War Laughing Mountain A Lodging House In Town Loud Thunder Lover Of Mountains Magnificent Peak Moon Mountain Moon Tree Cliff Mourning For The Layman Named Cloud Peak Mugoku Osho's Snow Poem No End Point No Gain No Precedent No-word Hut Old Creek Old Hut Old Man Advancing Old Man At Leisure Old Man In Retirement Old Man Of Few Words Old Man To-the-point Old Mountain On The Blue Waves On The Wall Of Cloud-friend Hut One Hut Ox Turned Loose Patriarch Peaks The Peak Of The Held-up Flower People's Abuse Pine Shade Plum Window Poem On Dry Mountain (a Zen Garden) The Pure Sound Pavilion Of The Riverside Temple Reizan Osho Visits Me Reply To A Friend's Poem Reply To Bukko Zenji's Poem At Seiken-ji Reply To Gen'no Osho's Poem Reply To Reizan Osho Reply To Suzan Osho's Snow Poem Snow Snow At Rohatsu Sesshin Snow Garden Snow Valley Spring Cliff Strange Peak Suzan Osho's Visit Suzan Osho's Visit To My West Mountain Hut Temple Of Eternal Light Tengan Osho's Visit To Erin-ji Thanks For Daisen Osho's Visit Thanks Sent To Taihei Osho Three-step Waterfall Tiger Valley Time For A Walk To Kengai Osho Of Engaku-ji To The Emperor's Messenger Toki-no-ge (satori Poem) Truth Hall Turtle Head Stupa Very High This Mountain Visiting My Old Hut In Late Spring Wandering With Compassionate Hands Withered Zen Autumn Winter Where The Mist Has Torn A Breeze Strokes The Water Of The Spring Women Autumn Night Between His Hands Burmese Figures Chinese Figures I Chinese Figures Ii Chinese Figures Iii Cosmology Hiding In The %cucumber Garden I Like Sleeping With Somebody Japanese Figures I Japanese Figures Ii Korean Figures Lao Figures A Long Time Back Malay Figures My Husband Before Leaving Philippine Figures The Substituted Poem Of Laureate Quynh Tatar Songs Water Pouring From Clouds A Woodcutter On His Way Home The Body Of Man The Whole Universe Is Full Of God -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® W.S. Merwin is one of America's leading poets. His prizes include the 2005 National Book Award for his collected poems, Migration, the Pulitzer Prize, the Stevens Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Lannan Foundation. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and translations. He lives in Hawaii, where he cultivates endangered palm trees.