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Hebrew woman, who knows your life?
You came in darkness and in darkness depart.
Your sorrows and joys, your hopes and desires
Were born within you and die in your heart.
Daughters of other nations
Ma…
Contributor:
Judah Leib Gordon
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1875
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Cigarettes! Cigarettes!
My voice rings through the streets
With eyes overcast, cloudy—
Buy! Buy! Buy!
Hunting foxes—Cossacks ride—
With horseshoes like scythes—
And cut down sounds like sheaves:
Buy…
Contributor:
Malka Lee
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926
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King David was old, advanced in years. Though covered in bedclothes, he could not get warm. They searched the land of Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abischag the Shunammite, who was…
Contributor:
André Spire
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1925
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Abishag. Little, young, warm Abishag.
Shout into the street: King David is not yet dead.
But King David wants to sleep and they won’t let him.
Adoniyahu with his gang shout my crown off my gray head…
Contributor:
Jacob Glatstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1926
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I run on the bridge
and the children follow
Yonatan
Yonatan they call
a little blood
just a little blood to finish up the honey
I’d let them pierce me with tacks
but the children want
and they are…
Contributor:
Yona Wallach
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1966
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Houses hold virgins
The doors on the chain
‘Plumb streets with hearts’
‘Bore curtains with eyes’
Virgins without dots
Stare beyond probability
See the men pass
Their hats are not ours
We …
Contributor:
Mina Loy
Places:
Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1914