Five years of Selma’s marriage passed without bringing children to strengthen the ties of spiritual relation between her and her husband and bind their repugnant souls together. A bar...

Let me sleep, for my soul is intox… Let me rest, for my spirit has had… Light the candles and burn the inc… Scatter leaves of jasmine and rose… Embalm my hair with frankincense a…

You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking t… Like children playing by the ocean… But while you build your sand—towe… And when you destroy them the ocea…

And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, “Bl… And he answered, Was it I who spo… Then he descended the steps of the… And facing the people again, he ra…

Where shall you seek beauty, and h… And how shall you speak of her exc… The aggrieved and the injured say,… Like a young mother half—shy of he… And the passionate say, “Nay, bea…

Build of your imaginings a bower i… For even as you have home—comings… Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in… Would that I could gather your ho…

I am dotted silver threads dropped… By the gods. Nature then takes me… Her fields and valleys. I am beautiful pearls, plucked fro… Crown of Ishtar by the daughter o…

In the spring of the that wonderful year, I was in Beirut. The gardens were full of Nisan flowers and the earth was carpeted with green grass, and like a secret of earth revealed to Hea...

No man can reveal to you aught but… The teacher who walks in the shado… If he is indeed wise he does not b… The astronomer may speak to you of… The musician may sing to you of th…