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Hercules and the Birds

by Sangharakshita

Sangharakshita reads a selection of his own poems from the volume of the same name.

Published by Windhorse Publications, Glasgow, 1990

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	1.	Hercules and the Birds verses i & ii (7:22)
	2.	Hercules and the Birds verses iii & iv (7:32)
	3.	Poems On The 'Genius of Venice' Exhibition At The Royal Academy (5:13)
	4.	Padmaloka (2:59)
	5.	Tuscany 1983 (1:52)
	6.	Greenstone (0:55)
	7.	Sonnet (1:03)
	8.	Lines Written For The Dedication Of The Shrine And The Opening Of The London Buddhist Centre (1:34)
	9.	Lines To Jayapushpa On Her Return To Malaysia (1:31)
	10.	The Realms Of Existence As Depicted In The Tibetan Wheel of Life (6:50)
	11.	The Wondering Heart (2:05)
	12.	Yemen Revisited (0:56)
	13.	Snow-White Revisited (0:44)
	14.	Lovelace Revisited (0:48)
	15.	Lines Composed On Acquiring 'The Works Of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.' in Eleven Volumes, MDCCLXXXVII (5:24)
	16.	Alexandrines (1:21)
	17.	Minerva's Rebuke To Jean Cocteau (1:09)
	18.	IM, J, And K (1:39)
	19.	Before Dawn (0:47)
	20.	The Priest's Dream (0:45)
	21.	The Gods (0:56)
	22.	Resurrection (1:28)
	23.	Haiku (0:12)
	24.	The Sunflower's Farewell (0:49)