The Madman – His Parables and Poems (Khalil Gibran Poems)
You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, longbefore many gods were born, I woke ...
You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, longbefore many gods were born, I woke ...
In that dark silent hourWhen the wind wants power,And in the black heightThe sky wants light,Stirless and blackIn utter lack,And ...
FATE says, and flaunts her stores of gold,'I'll loan you happiness untold.What is it you desire of me?'A perfect hour ...
MY eyelids red and heavy arcWith bending o'er the smold'ring peat.I know the Aeneid now by heart,My Virgil read in ...
Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery,Hot sphinx of nature, cactus-crowned, what hast thou done?Unclothed and mute as when the groans of ...
It stands neglected, silent, far from the ways of men,A lonely little cottage beside a lonely glen;And, dreaming there, I ...
They bring her flowers--red roses heavily sweet,White pinks and Mary-lilies and a hazeOf fresh green ferns; around her head and ...
Varus, varus, gib mir meine Legionen wiederQuick on my feet in those Novembers of my loneliness,I tossed a short pass,Almost ...
THE nightingales at Fairford singAs though it were a common thingTo make the day melodiousWith tones that use to visit ...
What silences we keep, year after yearWith those who are most near to us, and dear!We live beside each other ...
None is travellingHere along this way but I,This autumn evening.The first day of the year:thoughts come - and there is ...
Lord, I am small, and yet so great,The whole world stands to my estate,And in Thine Image I create.The sea ...
Once your word was a home for meWith windows and doors open to bliss,And I knew- there was no distanceFrom ...
Is thy heart weary of unfeeling men,And chilled with the world's ice? Then come with me,And I will bring thee ...
A yellow field of flowering mustard. Loneliness and sunshine.And such a mood - as if I turned the handle of a kiddy's ...
NOT unto us, O Lord,Not unto us the rapture of the day,The peace of night, or love's divine surprise,High heart, ...
O patient shore, thou canst not go to meetThy love, the restless sea, how comfortestThou all thy loneliness? Art thou ...
Hushed is the shriek of hurtling shells: and hark!Somewhere within that bit of soft blue sky-Grand in his loneliness, his ...
Well! with what art we labour to deceiveOur hearts, and nurse vain phantasies of Hope,And swelling thoughts, that have no ...
In the pain, in the loneliness of love,To the heart of my sweet I fled.I knocked at the door of ...
I am dazed by the beauty of my body.today I looked at myself with your eyes. discoveredthe soft curve of ...
My sisters have their loves, but IAm all alone, she said.And oh! the weary wonder Why.And oh! that I were ...
'Tis midnight. On the globe dead slumber sits,And all is silence—in the hour of sleep;Save when the hollow gust, that ...
Yes, you have taken everything from me:Beauty and love and all the measurelessImpatience of proud April; even our seaShouting under ...
Luminous mind, bright devilof absolute clusterings, of upright noon---:here we are at last, alone, without loneliness,far from the savage city's ...
Thy hand my hand,Thine eyes my eyes,All of theeCaught and confused with me:My hand thy hand,My eyes thine eyes,All of ...
LIKE rays once shed By a spent starThe words of a dead Poet are,That through bleak space Unchecked fly on,Though hand, heart, face, To ...
When death close my blank eyes --Hard from so much vain torment,What thoughts will fill your young bosomOf all my ...
WHO could refuseThe last wish of a friend?Loving unto the end,Fain would His love transfuseItself into the lives He left ...
I have looked too long upon the sunset.Its spell has stripped me bareOf all the comfortable thoughtsThat commonly I wear.Evening's ...
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