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POETRY COLLECTION The Madman: Parablesand Poems

The Madman: Parables and Poems

Kahlil Gibran · 15 poems · 30 pages · free to read

Fifteen short parables from Gibran’s first book in English (1918), five years before The Prophet.

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Contents

  1. God (open in book)
  2. The Scarecrow (open in book)
  3. The Wise Dog (open in book)
  4. On Giving and Taking (open in book)
  5. The Fox (open in book)
  6. The New Pleasure (open in book)
  7. The Two Cages (open in book)
  8. The Three Ants (open in book)
  9. The Grave-Digger (open in book)
  10. On the Steps of the Temple (open in book)
  11. Faces (open in book)
  12. The Astronomer (open in book)
  13. Said a Blade of Grass (open in book)
  14. The Eye (open in book)
  15. When My Sorrow Was Born (open in book)

Sources

The poems in this collection are in the public domain. This is a reading edition, not a Pagine Original.

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