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What is this sound of tumult that I hear—
Roaring of the sea, not burbling of the brook
Like the roar of a lion or a tiger?
I am in great danger and do not know
If my time approaches when I must…
Contributor:
Moses Zacuto
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
Mid–17th Century
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God’s world is great and holy. The holiest land in the world is the Land of Israel. In the Land of Israel the holiest city is Jerusalem. In Jerusalem the holiest place was the…
Contributor:
Sh. An-ski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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The rain cleaned off the steep facade of houses;
I write upon the white and stony sheet
And feel how my tired hand so softly rouses
From love poems that always, sweetly, were a cheat.
I wake in the…
Contributor:
Else Lasker-Schüler
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
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The dreadful angel in me is invisible
today, his screeching almost still.
You startle at its whisper. Is it
someone come to pay a visit
or a grasshopper tapping at the sill?
It’s he. Oh, he is…
Contributor:
Miklós Radnóti
Places:
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1943