The Forerunner

By Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer and poet.  Even though Gibran was considered a literary and political rebel, his works are still celebrated throughout the world.  Gibran’s most famous work is The Prophet.  This edition of The Forerunner includes a table of contents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles River Editors
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781508016915

Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and a philosopher best known for his, The Prophet. Born to a Maronite-Christian family in a village occupied by Ottoman rule, Gibran and his family immigrated to the United States in 1895 in search of a better life. Studying art and literature, and inevitably ensconced in the world of political activism as a young man dealing with the ramifications of having to leave his home-land, Gibran hoped to make his living as an artist. With the weight of political and religious upheaval on his shoulders, Gibran's work aimed to inspire a revolution of free though and artistic expression. Gibran's, The Prophet has become one of the best-selling books of all time, leaving behind a legacy of accolades and establishing him as both a literary rebel and hero in his country of Lebanon. Gibran is considered to be the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao Tzu.

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THE FORERUNNER

Kahlil Gibran

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Copyright © 2015 by Kahlil Gibran

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE FORERUNNER

GOD’S FOOL

LOVE

THE KING-HERMIT

THE LION’S DAUGHTER

TYRANNY

THE SAINT

THE PLUTOCRAT

THE GREATER SELF

WAR AND THE SMALL NATIONS

CRITICS

POETS

THE WEATHER-COCK

THE KING OF ARADUS

OUT OF MY DEEPER HEART

DYNASTIES

KNOWLEDGE AND HALF-KNOWLEDGE

SAID A SHEET OF SNOW-WHITE PAPER . . .

THE SCHOLAR AND THE POET

OTHER SEAS

REPENTANCE

THE DYING MAN AND THE VULTURE

BEYOND MY SOLITUDE

THE LAST WATCH

The Forerunner

By

Kahlil Gibran

THE FORERUNNER

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YOU ARE YOUR OWN forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.

Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.

When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.

And when you were a silent word upon life’s quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down