Forget not the honey days, dear of yore, And the souvenirs with which they went by; Those cherished memories, sweet, are no more, For yester, darling, was heaven with thou nigh. The Eglantine, the starry daffodils, The daisies, roses that I could retrace; The lilies grown in lakes and by the rills, All seemed fading […]
Brothers why be like a moon on the wane Ever beating the bolted door in vain Hence why not unite again to stand ‘gain Prideful of your Lebanese cultured vein Be brave to bear the burden of your fate And wise to quell the imposed storm of hate Then teach those gate-crashers to understand The […]
Behind our sylvan home, there’s a mountain Sloping down a forest so thick and green And drilling deep to the shore a fountain And far at the horizon I have seen A picture Around a ledge of stars clipped to a beam A sight of a vision caught in a dream. Clear and demure, the […]
All that comes with the morn goes with the eve As of old Al-Racheed and his empire The ancient Greeks withal never did leave But the futile ashes after the fire Hannibal crossing far Spain legions sent Across the Alps to conquer Roman Rome Of his victory he was confident Yet he was defated by […]
Gallop, gallop thy white horses, O Sea, Forever o’er thy boundless blue domain. Carthage and Rome with galley and cav’lry Fast sought the everlasting flame in vain But to fall, blind of vision, in ev’ry land, Leaving the torch of fame still in thy hand. Nations, like seasons, hold their sway and die, Dead leaves […]
What’s hope but a dream we dream half awake, A mirage on the desert seen unbound, Away, beyond away, a gleaming fake Of a vision, we vision found unfound. There’s nothing in the Hall of Time to find, But the dreams of today and tomorrow, And dreaming of hope, we walk in the blind; A […]
England grieved for a heart buried in Rome Of a poet glor’fied by rhyme and fame Cremated ashore far away from home England high over England carved his name Shelley who allured the world by his verse To a skylark he cherished to hear heard Spheres of harmony the whole universe A flood of songs […]
Yesterday I sat threading them Those beads of the past A rosary of memories The years each a gem buried In the eternal pyramid of time Leaving my mind so often consulting its pillow About the present and the merciless greedy past Chewing and gradually devouring the future Together with the defeated trailing generations Pushing […]
Verse, the lustrous galaxy of the mind, Radiating thoughts of wisdom well designed ; A torch of love lit on the palm of Time By the lively heart-glowing beats of rhyme. ‘Tis the living lip and tongue of sages, Who were the life blood of all the ages, Of a world once in caves, without […]
To keep away from the smothering smoke And the rising temper of the war to the knife Besides to shun looking at the mortal remains Which flayed the flies to fly away from a shocking sight, I decided to climb up the mountain Passing by the grave of Gibran And the old cedars on my […]