Poems by Khalil Gibran
Freedom XIV
... esired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape ...
Friendship IXX
... disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught ...
Giving chapter V
... your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father ...
Good and Evil XXII
... rs it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore ...
Houses chapter IX
... f the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night ...
Joy and Sorrow chapter VIII
... e-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall ...
Laws XIII
... the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing ...
Leave Me, My Blamer XIII
... My brothers. Go from me, for you are taking away ...
On Pain
... the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has ...
Peace XVIII
... mforting silence, the soldier said to his sweetheart, "Look at the Darkness, giving birth to the Sun ...
Pleasure XXIV
... love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy ...
Reason and Passion XV
... reath In God's sphere, and a leaf in God's forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion ...
Religion XXVI
... u shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain ...
Self-Knowledge XVII
... " And he answered, saying: Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights ...
Song of Fortune VI
... I would Teach him how to shed tears of affection ...
