The Farewell (Khalil Gibran Poems)
And now it was evening.And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that ...
And now it was evening.And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that ...
Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the ...
In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stoodBy my bed. She gazed upon me like a tender motherAnd wiped ...
Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell ...
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves sat together and thus conversed ...
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear--acare-woven garment that protects me from ...
And an old priest said, "Speak to us of Religion."And he said:Have I spoken this day of aught else?Is not ...
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heartFor the joys of the multitude.And I would not have the tears ...
I was,And I am.So shall I be to the end of time,For I am without end.I have cleft the vast ...
I am dotted silver threads dropped from heavenBy the gods. Nature then takes me, to adornHer fields and valleys.I am ...
Upon a lonely mountain, there lived two hermits who worshipped Godand loved one another.Now these two hermits had one earthen ...
In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips, I ascended the holy mountain and ...
Then Almitra spoke, saying, "We would ask now of Death."And he said:You would know the secret of death.But how shall ...
One night a feat was held in the palace, and there came a man andprostrated himself before the prince, and ...
And a man said, "Speak to us of Self-Knowledge."And he answered, saying:Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the ...
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, 'Speak to us of Children.'And he said:Your children are ...
You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, longbefore many gods were born, I woke ...
Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"And he answered saying:You were born together, and together you ...
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."And he said:Your children are ...
And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."And he said:Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses ...
Your pain is the breaking of the shellthat encloses your understanding.Even as the stone of the fruit must break,that itsheart ...
Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through you but ...
In the town where I was born lived a woman and her daughter, whowalked in their sleep.One night, while silence ...
One day there passed by a company of cats a wise dog.And as he came near and saw that they ...
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itselfBut if your love and must needs have desires,Let these be your ...
Love one another, but make not a bond of love.Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of ...
Once I said to a scarecrow, "You must be tired of standing in thislonely field."And he said, "The joy of ...
Once there lived a man who had a valley-full of needles. And oneday the mother of Jesus came to him ...
Love is a magic rayemitted from the burning coreof the souland illuminatingthe surrounding earth.It enables usto perceive lifeas a beautiful ...
There in the middle of the field, by the side of a crystalline stream, I saw a bird-cage whose rods ...
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