The Kahlil Gibran Collection

The Kahlil Gibran Collection

Kahlil Gibran

Contents

Spirits Rebellious (1908)

1. Madame Rose Hanie

2. The Cry of the Graves

3. Khalil The Heretic

Broken Wings (1912)

Foreword

1. Silent Sorrow

2. The Hand Of Destiny

3. Entrance to the Shrine

4. The White Torch

5. The Tempest

6. Lake Of Fire

7. Before the Throne of Death

8. Between Christ and Ishtar

9. Sacrifice

10. The Rescuer

A Tear And A Smile (1914)

1. The Creation

2. Two Infants

3. The House Of Fortune

4. A Poet’s Death Is His Life

5. The Criminal

6. Song Of Fortune

7. Song Of The Rain

8. The Poet

9. Laughter And Tears

10. Vision

11. Two Wishes

12. Yesterday And Today

13. Leave Me, My Blamer

14. The Beauty Of Death

15. A Poet’s Voice

16. The Life Of Love

17. Song Of The Wave

18. Peace

19. The Playground Of Life

20. The City Of The Dead

21. The Widow And Her Son

22. Song Of The Soul

23. Song Of The Flower

24. Song Of Love

25. Song Of Man

26. Before The Throne Of Beauty

27. A Lover’s Call

28. The Palace And The Hut

The Madman (1918)

Foreword

1. God

2. My Friend

3. The Scarecrow

4. The Sleep-Walkers

5. The Wise Dog

6. The Two Hermits

7. On Giving And Taking

8. The Seven Selves

9. War

10. The Fox

11. The Wise King

12. Ambition

13. The New Pleasure

14. The Other Language

15. The Pomegranate

16. The Two Cages

17. The Three Ants

18. The Grave-Digger

19. On The Steps Of The Temple

20. The Blessed City

21. The Good God And The Evil God

22. « Defeat »

23. Night And The Madman

24. Faces

25. The Greater Sea

26. Crucified

27. The Astronomer

28. The Great Longing

29. Said A Blade Of Grass

30. The Eye

31. The Two Learned Men

32. When My Sorrow Was Born

33. And When My Joy Was Born

34. « The Perfect World »

The Forerunner (1920)

Foreword

1. God's Fool

2. Love

3. The King-hermit

4. The Lion's Daughter

5. Tyranny

6. The Saint

7. The Plutocrat

8. The Greater Self

9. War and the Small Nations

10. Critics

11. Poets

12. The Weather-cock

13. The King of Aradus

14. Out of My Deeper Heart

15. Dynasties

16. Knowledge and Half-knowledge

17. 'Said a Sheet of Snow-White Paper. . .'

18. The Scholar and the Poet

19. Values

20. Other Seas

21. Repentance

22. The Dying Man and the Vulture

23. Beyond my Solitude

24. The Last Watch

Spirits Rebellious (1908)