The essential Rumi / translated by Coleman Barks, with John Moyne, A.A. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index.

On Rumi -- The Tavern: Whoever Brought Me Here Will Have to Take Me Home -- On The Tavern -- Who Says Words with My Mouth? -- We have a huge barrel of wine -- A Community of the Spirit -- There's a strange frenzy in my head -- Drunks fear the police -- A Children's Game -- Gone, inner and outer -- The wine we really drink -- The Many Wines -- Special Plates -- Burnt Kabob -- The New Rule -- This that is tormented -- Bewilderment: I Have Five Things to Say -- On Bewilderment -- I Have Five Things to Say -- Acts of Helplessness -- Saladin's Begging Bowl -- Late, by myself -- Does sunset sometimes look -- Be Melting Snow -- The Fragile Vial -- Where Are We? -- The Friend comes into my body -- There is a light seed grain -- Do you think I know -- Emptiness and Silence: The Night Air -- On Silence -- The Reed Flute's Song -- A Thirsty Fish -- Enough Words? -- This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness -- Quietness -- Sanai -- A Just-Finishing Candle -- Craftsmanship and Emptiness -- Emptiness -- When you are with everyone but me -- No Flag -- The Food Sack -- The Night Air -- Only Breath -- There is a way between voice -- Spring Giddiness: Stand in the Wake of This Chattering and Grow Airy -- On Spring Giddiness -- Spring -- Where Everything Is Music -- A Great Wagon -- Today, like every other day -- Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing -- The breeze at dawn -- I would love to kiss you -- Daylight, full of small dancing particles -- They try to say what you are -- Come to the orchard in Spring -- Spring Is Christ.

A comprehensive collection of ecstatic poetry that delights with its energy and passion, The Essential Rumi brings the vibrant, living words of famed thirteenth-century Sufi mystic Jelalludin Rumi to contemporary readers.