When I arrived
Late 12th Century
Image
Engage with this Source
In this tongue-in-cheek Hebrew wine poem, the poet lightheartedly chides his host, with a biblical verse, for having served him wine without any food to accompany it. The headnote, as usual, is in Arabic.
Read more
Restricted
Related Guide
Early Medieval Poetry
7th to 12th Century
You may also like
Seats of the Soul
Therefore doth it behoove every man to bless and to praise Him for all the good He hath conferred upon man; to exalt Him, to honor Him, to sanctify Him, and to declare His unity, in the thoughts of…
I have seen a damsel
A 12th-century Karaite scholar praises a girl for her melodious and accurate chanting of the Hebrew Bible in this brief Hebrew poem.
One day, a beautiful gazelle
One day, a beautiful gazelle came to me,
her attractiveness cloaked in a veil;
I begged her:…
A soul, splendid
A soul, splendid by the glory of the Lord,
How was she associated with the body?
Or how is it that…
Your saliva, gazelle
Your saliva, gazelle, and your wine are sweet to me;
might it be that one day during [our] reunion you will fall in…
My soul, why are you so disquieted?
My soul, why are you so disquieted, so downcast over me,
with so much crying and tears on my cheek?
Why do you tremble like…