Come to me at dawn, love

This is one of a series of poems by Ibn Gabirol. In each, he uses imagery drawn from the Song of Songs to compose a lyrical love poem in which the beloved is not a mundane human lover, but God or the Messiah (“Jesse’s son”), and the desired reunion is that of divine redemption of the Jewish people. Although it is not entirely clear where in the liturgy this poem may have fit, it seems likely that it was used for devotion, whether in a synagogue setting or in private prayer.