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    Poems, Parables and Drawings
    Poems, Parables and Drawings
    Poems, Parables and Drawings
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    Poems, Parables and Drawings

    By Kahlil Gibran and Alice Raphael

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    The perfect companion to Kahlil Gibran's classic, The Prophet, this elegant volume presents an original selection of works by the popular writer and artist. It consists of the complete texts and drawings of The Madman and The Forerunner, plus 20 additional illustrations—many long out of print—and a perceptive essay by art historian Alice Raphael. The Madman features a series of concise stories and verses offering uplifting views of human nature. Gibran warmly encourages his readers to abandon the superficial and embrace the true self, an outlook that recurs in The Forerunner and its 24 morality tales. Each of the poems, parables, and illustrations reflects Gibran's fervent belief in the transformative powers of love. This splendid keepsake edition of the renowned author's influential works is an ideal gift for any occasion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateSep 21, 2012
    ISBN9780486122212
    Poems, Parables and Drawings
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    Kahlil Gibran

    Poet, philosopher, and artist, Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) was born in Lebanon. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age and he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the country of his birth. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages and his drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake.

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      THE MADMAN

      HIS PARABLES AND POEMS

      CONTENTS

      GOD

      MY FRIEND

      THE SCARECROW

      THE SLEEP-WALKERS

      THE WISE DOG

      THE TWO HERMITS

      ON GIVING AND TAKING

      THE SEVEN SELVES

      WAR

      THE FOX

      THE WISE KING

      AMBITION

      THE NEW PLEASURE

      THE OTHER LANGUAGE

      THE POMEGRANATE

      THE TWO CAGES

      THE THREE ANTS

      THE GRAVE-DIGGER

      ON THE STEPS OF THE TEMPLE

      THE BLESSED CITY

      THE GOOD GOD AND THE EVIL GOD

      DEFEAT

      NIGHT AND THE MADMAN

      FACES

      THE GREATER SEA

      CRUCIFIED

      THE ASTRONOMER

      THE GREAT LONGING

      SAID A BLADE OF GRASS

      THE EYE

      THE TWO LEARNED MEN

      WHEN MY SORROW WAS BORN

      AND WHEN MY JOY WAS BORN

      THE PERFECT WORLD

      YOU ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen,—the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives,—I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, Thieves, thieves, the curséd thieves.

      Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me.

      And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, He is a madman. I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.

      Thus I became a madman.

      And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

      But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief.

      GOD

      IN the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips, I ascended the holy mountain and spoke unto God, saying, Master, I am thy slave. Thy hidden will is my law and I shall obey thee for ever more.

      But God made no answer, and like a mighty tempest passed away.

      And after a thousand years I ascended the holy mountain and again spoke unto God, saying, Creator, I am thy creation. Out of clay hast thou fashioned me and to thee I owe mine all.

      And God made no answer, but like a thousand swift wings passed away.

      And after a thousand years I climbed the holy mountain and spoke unto God again, saying, Father, I am thy son. In pity and love thou hast given me birth, and through love and worship I shall inherit thy kingdom.

      And God made no answer, and like the mist that veils the distant hills he passed away.

      And after a thousand years I climbed the sacred mountain and again spoke unto God, saying, My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou art my tomorrow. I am thy root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

      Then God leaned over me, and in my ears whispered words of sweetness, and even as the sea that enfoldeth a brook that runneth down to her, he enfolded me.

      And when I descended to the valleys and the plains God was there also.

      MY FRIEND

      MY friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear—a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence.

      The I in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

      I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do—for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.

      When thou sayest, The wind bloweth eastward, I say, Aye it doth blow eastward; for I would not have thee know that my mind doth not dwell upon the wind but upon the sea.

      Thou canst not understand my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have thee understand. I would be at sea alone.

      When it is day with thee, my friend, it is night with me; yet even then I speak of the noontide that dances upon the hills and of the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley; for thou canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating against the stars—and I fain would not have thee hear or see. I would be with night alone.

      When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell—even then thou callest to me across the unbridgeable gulf, My companion, my comrade, and I call back to thee, My comrade, my companion—for I would not have thee see my Hell. The flame would burn thy eyesight and the smoke would crowd thy nostrils. And I love my Hell too well to have thee visit it. I would be in Hell alone.

      Thou lovest Truth and Beauty and Righteousness; and I for thy sake say it is well and seemly to love these things. But in my heart I laugh at thy love. Yet I would not have thee see my laughter. I would laugh alone.

      My friend, thou art good and cautious and wise; nay, thou art perfect—and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously. And yet I am mad. But I mask my madness. I would be mad alone.

      My friend, thou art not my friend, but how shall I make thee understand? My path is not thy path, yet together we walk, hand in hand.

      THE SCARECROW

      ONCE I said to a scarecrow, You must be tired of standing in this lonely field,

      And he said, "The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire

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