First linesAmeen Rihani

  1. Adele! a name that kindled in the breast Adele
  2. Ah, talk to me of something else, I pray; The Sister of Death
  3. Allah is merciful, Allah is kind, The Song of Rain
  4. At eventide the Pilgrim came Renunciation
  5. At night on the radiant Rialto, Lilatu Laili
  6. Beneath the salvias, where some angel slew Beneath the Salvias
  7. Even through the City of the Dead she passed, The Cataclysm
  8. From the Mist of Arcana we rise, A Chant of Mystics
  9. God of the Distances, hear us⁠— God of the Distances, Hear Us
  10. Grieve not, for I am near thee; Let Thine Eyes Whisper
  11. Hanem, we must have met before, Hanem
  12. Her sable robes the gloaming trails The House of Night
  13. Here are flowers, O my Beloved, Water and Flowers
  14. “Here she is: O take her not away so soon! Fardi wa Nafli
  15. Hold back thy lips, I pray; Near the Cascades
  16. How I did hold in deep contempt Retribution
  17. I languish in thy penetrating clasp, Dissolution
  18. I love thy color and thy symmetry; The Brass Bed
  19. I saw one day on the horizon grey, A Bed of Flame
  20. I saw Thee following me, The Fugitive
  21. I strolled upon the Brooklyn Bridge one day, It Was All for Him
  22. I walked along the countryside Reflections
  23. I walked into her Temple, as of yore The Pagan
  24. I wander among the hills of alien lands The Wanderer
  25. If I should worship at thine ancient shrine, Nectar and Blood
  26. In the grotto the forest designed, The Two Brothers
  27. In thy melancholy’s pensive Fancy To Abu’l-Ala
  28. Into this world they tell me I was sent My Burnoose
  29. Is ’t strange that in the cycle of his woes, After Reading King Lear
  30. Like yonder swallow, I would soar away⁠— Three Golden Threads
  31. Long hast thou suffered, sister of my heart, Saada
  32. Long have I a word enshrined Rest
  33. Lulled in the purple darkness is my soul, The Sufi
  34. Must I convey at last the news to thee? Gone with the Swallows
  35. My far cry, though no one should echo⁠— Ever to Be
  36. My heart ’s the field I sow for thee, A Sufi Song
  37. My soul and I, upon the peak Upon the Peak of Sanneen
  38. O Freedom, in thy cause I fought, O Freedom
  39. O kiss me now; the end is near The First and Last
  40. O Lord of Bounties, melt thy heaven’s breath, Prayer in the Desert
  41. O Master, I can not adventure with thee; The Lost Disciple
  42. O my Love, how long wilt thou continue Lebanus
  43. O, bleeding blossoms, tell, were my heart there⁠— Stolen Salvias
  44. O, how the light drifts from the hemlock grove, Disarmed Desire
  45. O, sweet Sometime, the gardens bloom the while I wait; O, Sweet Sometime
  46. O, thou, who loved me once, A Peasant’s Song
  47. Of all my desert days A Better Woe
  48. Onward keep! Forget the self that cried: Onward Keep
  49. Outside the gates of night, above the moon, Thy Smile
  50. Over the White Way’s flood of light, The Towers and the Night
  51. Regardless of the cries of priests and sages Unadorned
  52. Sad, sad, sad⁠— A Spring Dirge
  53. Said the folded Leaves upon the Heath The Fruits of Death
  54. Seek what you shall e’er possess, Badruddin
  55. She sits upon a rock along the stream The Road of Make-Believe
  56. She went out singing, and the poppies still She Went Out Singing
  57. ’T is but a score of hours when he didst swear Her First Sorrow
  58. ’T is Night; all the Sirens are silent, The Song of Siva
  59. The cricket to the corn-crake came one day, The Philistine
  60. The deed is done, O Kings: the blood is shed: The End and the Beginning
  61. The ghost of Winter stalks amidst the boughs Resurrection
  62. The Khamsin comes robed in the Lybian sands, In the Palm Groves of Memphis
  63. The moon hath said her sad good-bye, A Serenade
  64. The old gods and their slaves I’ve deserted; The God of My Goddess
  65. The shadow of thy curls I see In the Meadow
  66. The Tomb said to the Rose: The Tomb and the Rose
  67. The violets their soft, dark lashes part, Jealousy
  68. There was a rhapsody in all her moods, Andalusia
  69. There’s one upon whose youthful breast I fain would die: Midnight Mood
  70. Though cribbed and gyved, thou canst within thy walls To the Sonnet
  71. Though I’m God, thou art man, we are one, Allah wa Ana
  72. Thy love’s as tender as the drooping rose that sadly says to earth: O, Give Me Strength to Take
  73. To the Ruins of Palmyra this the “Flatiron” addrest: The “Flatiron” and the Ruins of Palmyra
  74. Upon the face of darkness beams my soul⁠— A Nocturn
  75. When my parched lips upon thy princely brow, In Memory of E. M. El-K.
  76. When Othman’s sword, as Paleologue’s, is broken Constantinople
  77. When tears wash tears and soul upon soul leaps, Repentance
  78. When the spring boughs were told Independent Blossoms
  79. Why art thou so hushed and sad, From the Arabic

All poets.