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At the time when the florid season,
joyful springtime of life,
the tender infancy of its ardent age,
made its first step in the Orient
placing flower before Aprils
to my first juvenile…
Contributor:
Diego Basurto Henríquez
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Rouen, Kingdom of France (Rouen, France)
Date:
1649
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He was home from the East, this pilgrim.
He had left to seek a perfumed flower
that Solomon, whose hands grew dark
from constant prayers for beauty,
had planted in the gardens of En Gedi,
fashioned…
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Gustave Kahn
Places:
Lorraine, French Republic (Lorraine, France)
Date:
1895
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Hear, O Israel!
Will you never tire of repeating in your prayers:
“Praised be the Eternal, who avengeth my injuries,
Who protecteth my rights, who supporteth me in need,
Who crusheth my foes, who…
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André Spire
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1907
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Beautiful mistress mine,
upon whose snow at dawn
the rose is forming
on fields of mother of pearl.
Pure and lovely lily,
who amid coral protects itself
from the pure crystals
that the…
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Antonio Enríquez Gómez
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17th Century
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On the Lord’s hills, white with lustrous light,
Far from rich palaces reeking of wine,
Drunk on the night and sidereal sadness,
The King dreams in self-imposed exile.
Below, mid the wheat, the…
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Ephraïm Mikhaël
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1887
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The fire of joy in solitude
. . . And since in vain I have made this journey,
The ground giving way to my burning steps,
Let me embrace this ardor
In abstract revelry
* * *
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Henri Franck
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1912
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With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
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Edmond Fleg
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1913