The woman of Byblos
A lamentation
- Weep with me, ye daughters of Ashtarte, and all ye lovers of Tamouz,
- Bid your heart melt and rise and run blood-tears,
- For He who was made of gold and ivory is no more.
- In the dark forest the boar overcame Him,
- And the tusks of the boar pierced His flesh.
- Now He lies stained with the leaves of yesteryear,
- And no longer shall His footsteps wake the seeds that sleep in the bosom of the spring.
- His voice will not come with the dawn to my window,
- And I shall be forever alone.
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- Weep with me, ye daughters of Ashtarte, and all ye lovers of Tamouz,
- For my Beloved has escaped me;
- He who spoke as the rivers speak;
- He whose voice and time were twins;
- He whose mouth was a red pain made sweet;
- He on whose lips gall would turn to honey.
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- Weep with me, daughters of Ashtarte, and ye lovers of Tamouz.
- Weep with me around His bier as the stars weep,
- And as the moon-petals fall upon His wounded body.
- Wet with your tears the silken covers of my bed,
- Where my Beloved once lay in my dream,
- And was gone away in my awakening.
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- I charge ye, daughters od Ashtarte, and all ye lovers of Tamouz,
- Bare your breasts and weep and comfort me,
- For Jesus of Nazareth is dead.
- --oOo-- -
Khalil Gibran
Introductory biography
Spirits Rebellious
The Broken Wings
A Tear and a Smile
The Madman
The Forerunner
The Prophet
The New Frontier
Sand and Foam
Jesus, The Son Of Man
James the son of Zebedee
Anna the mother of Mary
Assaph called the Orator of Tyre
Mary Magdalen
Philemon, a Greek Apothecary
Simon who was called Peter
Caiaphas
Joanna, the wife of Herod's steward
Rafca
A Persian Philosopher in Damascus
David, one of his followers
Luke
Matthew
John the son of Zebedee
A young priest of Capernaum
A rich levi in the neighborhood of the Nazarene
A shepherd in South Lebanon
John the Baptist
Joseph of Arimathea
Nathaniel
Saba of Antioch
Salome to a woman friend
Rachael, a woman disciple
Cleopas of Bethroune
Naaman of the Gadarenes
Thomas
Elmadam the Logician
One of the Mary's
Rumanous, a Greek poet
Levi, a disciple
A widow in Galilee
Judas the cousin of Jesus
The man from the desert
Peter
Melachi of Babylon, an astronomer
A philosopher
Uriah, an old man of Nazareth
Nicodemus the poet
Joseph of Arimathea
Georgus of Beirut
Mary Magdalen
Jotham of Nazareth to a Roman
Ephraim of Jericho
Barca, a merchant of Tyre
Phumiah, the high Priestess of Sidon
Benjamin the scribe
Zacchaeus
Hannah of Bethsaida
Manasseh
Jephtha of Caesarea
John the beloved disciple
Mannus the Pompeiian, to a Greek
Pontius Pilatus
Bartholomew in Ephesus
Matthew
Andrew on prostitutes
A rich man on possessions
John at Patmos
Peter on the neighbor
A cobbler in Jerusalem
Suzannah of Nazareth
Joseph surnamed Justus
Philip
Birbarah of Yammouni
Pilate's wife to a Roman lady
A man outside of Jerusalem
Sarkis, an old Greek shepherd
Annas the high priest
A woman, one of Mary's neighbors
Ahaz the portly
Barabbas
Claudius a Roman sentinel
James the brother of the Lord
Simon the Cyrene
Cyborea
The woman in Byblos
Mary Magdalen thirty years later
A man from Lebanon
The Earth Gods
The Wanderer
Al-Nay
The Garden of the Prophet
Lazarus and His Beloved
Satan
My Countrymen
I Believe In You
Your Thought And Mine
You Have Your Lebanon
History and the Nation
The Vision
Visual art