GIBRAN KHALIL Book THE PROPHET Poem FRIENDSHIP English TEXT
Khalil Gibran
The Prophet book
Friendship
(1923)
Arabic literature
poetry in prose
Original English text
“The Prophet” Book is the most famous text by the Lebanese writer Gibran Khalil Gibran. The book “The Prophet”, published in 1923, was written by Gibran directly in English and is a collection of prose poems. The Book The Prophet by Khalil Gibran was an inspiration and father of the “New Age”.
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Happy reading and good friendship.
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Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
Giving
Arabic literature
Original English text
And a youth said, “Speak to us of Friendship.”
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love
and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear
not the “nay” in your own mind,
nor do you withhold the “ay.”
And when he is silent
your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations
are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love
but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide,
let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need,
but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things
the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Khalil Gibran Friendship
Book: The prophet (1923)
Arabic literature
poetry in prose
Original English text
Kahlil Gibran All the poems > here
Index
The Prophet book
by Khalil Gibran
(with the link on yeyebook to where you can read them)
THE COMING OF THE SHIP
ON HOUSES
ON CLOTHES
ON BUYING AND SELLING
ON LAWS
ON FREEDOM
ON PAIN
ON SELF-KNOWLEDGE
ON TEACHING
ON FRIENDSHIP
ON TALKING
ON TIME
ON PRAYER
ON PLEASURE
ON BEAUTY
ON RELIGION
ON DEATH
THE FAREWELL
