in the lyric). 1978. Dafātir al-ayyām (diaries). 1987. Translations Khalil Gibran : The Prophet. 1968. TS Eliot : The Destroyed Earth. 1958 Anthology of American Poems. 1958. Carl Sandburg : Abraham Lincoln. 1959. Robert Frost : Selected Poems. 1962. The new Testament. 1958. Yusuf al-Khal translated in German Some of his poems have appeared in collections in German, e. B. in Suleman Taufiq (Ed.): New Arabic Poetry. Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-13262-0 . Featured works al-Khal, Yusuf. The Flag of Childhood: Poems from The Middle East. “The Deserted Well” Ed. Naomi Shihab Nye. New York: Aladdin, 1998. 76. References External links 1917 births 1987 deaths 20th-century Lebanese poets Syrian people of Lebanese descent Syrian emigrants to Lebanon Syrian magazine founders Greek Orthodox Christians from Syria