You delight in laying down laws,
Yet you delight more in breaking t
Like children playing by the ocean
But while you build your sand—towe
And when you destroy them the ocea

The God separated a spirit from H
And the God bestowed upon her a l
And He gave her wisdom from heave
Then the God took consuming fire
And the god laughed and cried. He

In the stillness of night Wisdom
By my bed. She gazed upon me like
And wiped away my tears, and said:
The cry of your spirit and I am c
Open your heart to me and I shall

The power of charity sows deep in
My soul gives life to the grapevin
Heaven fills my lamp with oil and
I do all these things because I l
Humanity rages like a tempest, but

I am a kind word uttered and repea
By the voice of Nature;
I am a star fallen from the
Blue tent upon the green carpet.
I am the daughter of the elements

Love has no other desire but to fu
But if your love and must needs ha
Let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running broo
That sings its melody to the night

My neighbours, you remember the da
Every time I went to the fields I
Solitude has soft, silky hands, bu
The boy’s soul undergoing the buff
That sorrow which obsessed me duri

I was eighteen years of age when l
Selma Karamy was the one who taug
Every young man remembers his firs
In every young man’s life there is
I was deeply engrossed in thought

No man can reveal to you aught but
The teacher who walks in the shado
If he is indeed wise he does not b
The astronomer may speak to you of
The musician may sing to you of th

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which y
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into
Is not the cup that holds your win