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The Madman: His Parables and Poems
The Madman: His Parables and Poems
The Madman: His Parables and Poems
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The Madman: His Parables and Poems is an early collection of English poems written by Lebanese American author Kahlil Gibran. This volume includes the following poems: 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, and 'The Perfect World'.
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Release dateJan 1, 2010
ISBN9781420914900
The Madman: His Parables and Poems
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Kahlil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was an essayist, novelist, and mystic poet. He wrote The Prophet, a collection of philosophical essays that went on to become one of the bestselling books of the twentieth century. Though he was born in Lebanon, he moved to Boston’s South End as a child and studied art with Auguste Rodin in Paris for two years before launching his literary career. Much of Gibran’s work contains themes of religion and Christianity as well as spiritual love.

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    The Madman - Kahlil Gibran

    THE MADMAN:

    HIS PARABLES AND POEMS

    BY KAHLIL GIBRAN

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    CONTENTS

    THE MADMAN: HIS PARABLES AND POEMS

    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'

    THE MADMAN: HIS PARABLES AND POEMS

    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 an worn in seven lives,—I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, 'Thieves, thieves, the cursed 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 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

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