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Come, my friend, and friend of the luminaries
Come, my friend, and friend of the luminaries!
Come with me; let us pass the night in the villages,
For winter is past, and there is heard
In our land the hubbub of swallows and turtledoves.
We…
I spent the night
I spent the night in agitation. It seemed as if
my eyes had been enjoined from sleeping.
The sky was like a tent with ropes
that kept the night attached to it.
The moon alongside heaven’s Bear
…
Speak, messenger
Speak, messenger, my greetings to my friend,
a man whose like does not exist on earth,
whose wondrous gifts my heart will ever praise
and not forget as long as it may live.
He sent a salver full…
Winter kept its vow
Winter kept its vow,
fulfilled its promise to the lily of the valley.
A summer day had waited all through winter.
Then the lightning came, proclaiming
that the earth had given painless birth
…
Betrothed to the earth’s dust
Betrothed to the earth’s dust, whose husband is the dirt,
far from any lad, she lost her maidenhood.
As she approached the [burial] mounds, to join their graves—
She was a woman in her maidenhood.…
For the mountain of Zion
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate (Lamentations 5:18)
I will groan and be astonished.
For the mountain of Zion I will complain,
and I will have mercy upon its dust.
For the mountain of…