The Madman: His Parables and Poems

2015 Reprint of 1918 Edition. 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. Contains illustrations by Gibran whose exquisite drawings are reminiscent of Rodin and the best of Blake. . . . the greatest of Arab Romantics and father of a 20th-century Romantic tradition whose impact on Arab writers has been at least as strong as that of 19th-century figures such as Wordsworth and Keats on their English-speaking counterparts. - Dr. Suheil Bushrui Director of the Kahlil Gibran Chair on Values and Peace University of Maryland