The Earth Gods

2013 Reprint of English. Exact facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. With Illustrations reproduced from original drawings by the author. This is in my opinion one of the greatest poems in the language. The Earth Gods is perhaps a book for the mystic a poet's book for poets for the initiate and the dreamer of vast dreams. Yet I have known those who pride themselves on being highly practical and feet-on-the-ground who disown any bent toward the mystical and the occult to pronounce it a book of wonder and power. And as a child of seven to whom I read portions of the poem on request says unvaryingly 'Read it again!' This perhaps for the music and the almost unearthly beauty of rhythm.-Barbara Young in This Man From Lebanon: A Study of Kahlil Gibran