Songs For Tomorrow

by
Ko Un


Translated by

Brother Anthony of Taizé
Young-Moo Kim
Gary G. Gach


Table of Contents

Transcendental Sensibility (1960)
Ch'ŏnŭn Temple
A poet's heart
Nocturnal Rapture
Insect voice
Spring rain
Sleep
Seaside Poems (1966)
Mountain temple impressions
Journey with Hans
Extravagance
Young People's Songs of the Four Seasons
Song of a Cemetery
Nightfall at Pyŏldowŏn
God, the Last Village of Language (1967)
Loss
New Year's Day
The thirteenth night of the month
Margins of meditation
Senoya, Senoya (1970)
When I went to Munŭi Village (1974)
When I went to Munŭi Village
Beside Sŏmjin River
The wee hours
Destruction of life
Concerning silence
Taking to the Hills (1977)
Woodblocks of Buddhist scriptures
A secret question
Taking to the hills
Fun and Games with a sphere
Ode to Sim Chong
Early Morning Road (1978)
In a temple's main hall
Arrows
Homeland Stars (1984)
Lunch in the Fields
Visit to a birch grove
Kŭmnam Street
To the mothers of Argentina
Mop
Today’s ebb tide
A Road
Sunlight
Resurrection
Pastoral Poems (1986)
Crossing Rice-fields at Nightfall
A simple flower
Flowers
Fly High, Poem! (1986)
This land still has its living springs
Mokp'o bound

Your Eyes (1988)
Cold day
First snow
A white sail
Morning Dew (1990)
Fruit
Morning dew
For Tears (1990)
Your eloquence
Pumpkin blossom
Spies
Kim Shin-muk
Ten Thousand Lives (1986 - )
Sam-man's Grandmother (Vol 1)
Okya, The Palace Woman (Vol 3)
To-Gil Bitten by a Dog (Vol 7)
The Couple Running the General Store (Vol 5)
Maternal Grandfather (Vol 4)
Chae-Suk (Vol 2)
What? (1991)
A Drunkard
A Shooting Star
The Moon
A Green Frog
Ripples
One Day
Old Buddha
Asking the Way
Sea Diamond Mountain (1991)
The Upper Reaches of Sŏmjin River
Gazing up at Nogodan
My Father's Cousin
Rooks
Wild Lilies on Nogodan Ridge
On the Suspension Bridge at Namhae
Warning
10
Writing
A Few Quick Words
Winter Journey
A Bell
Odong Island in Yŏsu Harbor
Early Morning
Incident at Pŏpsŏng-p'o
Heavy snow
On Ch'ŏnwang Peak
Springtime
One Day
Untitled
Along the East Coast
An outcry
Earthworms
Yong'il Bay
Yesterday 
Song of Tomorrow (1992)
Tomorrow
Horizon
One Day's Song
A Yard at Night
The Woman of Kago Island
Windy Day
Somewhere unfamiliar
To a Young Poet
A Dead Banner
One Apple
Evening of Memorial Rites
A Bell at Dawn
That Flock of Black Cranes
A Short Bio
Grave Memories
Resting
The Road Not Yet Traveled (1993)
Windy Day
Snake
Chestnuts
Day
Clay
Death Poem
Beside a Compost Heap
Out Walking At Last
Above a Village
An Old Woman Speaks
Dawn
Afternoon
In a Street
Drawing Maps
A Certain delight
The Road Not Yet Traveled
Tokdo (1995)
Mountain
Sorrow
Wind
Where Are My New Books?
Myriad Stars
Return to harbor
Rock
Song for a Baby
Looking up at a Night Sky
A Waterfall
Tokdo
A Reverie
In the House of Prabhutaratna
East Sea Lotus Flowers
The passage of Time
Mountain Birds
Burying Names
A Memorial Stone (1997)
Poems of engagement
With the Little Countries
The Sound of a Flute
Returning from Abroad
Wild Chrysanthemum
The Lion
Sunken Bells
Last Night's Dream
Turtle Time
Light Snow
Whispering (1998)
A Path through the Fields
Singing Island
Late Flowers
Stars and Flowers
This World’s words
Childhood Nightsoil
Meeting Myself
Winter Waterfall
Worker
Reunion
Since Antiquity
The Himalayas (2000)
Tibetan Night
Name
Sky burial
Mount Sumi
Optical illusion
Flowers of a Moment  (2001)
Poems left behind (2002)
Soul
Fascination
Late Songs (2002)
Song for Peace
First-Person sorrowful
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