title: The Storm: Stories and Prose Poems (Compass)
author:  Kahlil Gibran 
description: Text: English (translation)<br> Original Language: Arabic
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  Between Night and Morn
  
  Kahlil Gibran
  
  Philosophical Library
  
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  Editor’s Preface
  
   _The_ very heart of the mystic East emerges in this volume, and from the
  outset one feels the tremendous mood, the electrifying boldness, the terrible
  magnetism of the immortal Gibran.
  
  This ancient wisdom, set forth in the form of a simple yet profound philosophy
  of life, applies dynamically and with amazing timeliness to present human
  problems. But for all of his preoccupation with momentous subjects, Gibran is
  far from the modern school of poetry, and his style inclines to Victorian
  lyricism when not catapulting toward Dante or Goethe. It is at the same time
  powerful and tender; frightening and delightful; joyous and funereal; simple
  and tremendous. However, diametric opposites in substance apparently presented
  no difficulty in style to this master of simple, effective communication of
  subtle thought. Gibran’s style is incomparable in both poetry