A Chant of Mystics, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by the influential Lebanese American author Ameen Rihani. In these poems, the author playfully introduces the American public of the early 1920's to the environment in which he grew up, embellishing the poems with folklore and fairy tale romance.

By : Ameen Rihani (1876 - 1940)

01 - The Towers and the Night 02 - The End and the Beginning 03 - The Cataclysm 04 - Reflections 05 - The Song of Siva 06 - The Fruits of Death 07 - Constantinople 08 - Andalusia 09 - In the Palm Groves of Memphis 10 - Prayer in the Desert 11 - Water and Flowers 12 - The Song of Rain 13 - The House of Night 14 - After Reading King Lear 15 - The Wanderer 16 - Lebanus 17 - The Pagan 18 - The Lost Disciple 19 - From the Arabic 20 - She Went out Singing 21 - Hanem 22 - O Freedom 23 - The Road of Make-Believe 24 - Renunciation 25 - A Sufi Song 26 - The Two Brothers 27 - God of the Distances, Hear Us 28 - Badruddin 29 - The Sufi 30 - The Fugitive 31 - A Chant of Mystics