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Poetry

Ameen Rihani

BOOK TYPE
Poetry
READING TIME
At your own pace
WORDS
19,099
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About this book

A collection of Ameen Rihani’s poetry.

Poetry

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. Dedication
  4. Salaam
  5. Poetry
    1. Ever to Be
    2. Upon the Peak of Sanneen
    3. The Philistine
    4. My Burnoose
    5. A Spring Dirge
    6. Fardi wa Nafli
    7. Adele
    8. Nectar and Blood
    9. Resurrection
    10. Disarmed Desire
    11. A Better Woe
    12. The First and Last
    13. In the Meadow
    14. O, Sweet Sometime
    15. A Bed of Flame
    16. The Sister of Death
    17. Retribution
    18. Let Thine Eyes Whisper
    19. Lilatu Laili
    20. Midnight Mood
    21. Thy Smile
    22. Unadorned
    23. Dissolution
    24. A Serenade
    25. The Brass Bed
    26. Three Golden Threads
    27. Independent Blossoms
    28. The God of My Goddess
    29. A Peasant’s Song
    30. Her First Sorrow
    31. A Nocturn
    32. Saada
    33. Stolen Salvias
    34. Jealousy
    35. Beneath the Salvias
    36. Gone with the Swallows
    37. To the Sonnet
    38. The Tomb and the Rose
    39. Rest
    40. The “Flatiron” and the Ruins of Palmyra
    41. It Was All for Him
    42. Repentance
    43. O, Give Me Strength to Take
    44. Near the Cascades
    45. Onward Keep
    46. Allah wa Ana
    47. In Memory of E. M. El-K.
    48. To Abu’l-Ala
    49. The Towers and the Night
    50. The End and the Beginning
    51. The Cataclysm
    52. Reflections
    53. The Song of Siva
    54. The Fruits of Death
    55. Constantinople
    56. Andalusia
      1. I: Alcazar
      2. II: Alhambra
      3. III: The Mosque
      4. IV: Al-Zahra
    57. In the Palm Groves of Memphis
    58. Prayer in the Desert
    59. Water and Flowers
    60. The Song of Rain
    61. The House of Night
    62. After Reading King Lear
    63. The Wanderer
    64. Lebanus
    65. The Pagan
    66. The Lost Disciple
    67. From the Arabic
    68. She Went Out Singing
    69. Hanem
    70. O Freedom
    71. The Road of Make-Believe
    72. Renunciation
    73. A Sufi Song
    74. The Two Brothers
    75. God of the Distances, Hear Us
    76. Badruddin
    77. The Sufi
    78. The Fugitive
    79. A Chant of Mystics
  6. Endnotes
  7. Colophon
  8. Uncopyright

Edition & source

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SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE
2023-05-22
SOURCE EDITION UPDATED
2026-08-24
ADDED TO iREADALL
2026-10-13
Edition contributors
  • The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
  • Ameen Rihani (ann, aut, dto)
  • Alberto Pasini (art)
  • Wikisource (trc)
  • Weijia Cheng (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, trc, tyg)
  • Alex Cabal (pfr)
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