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To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…
Contributor:
Solomon Mazal Tov
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
mid 16th Century
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A fountain surges from my verse’s house.
Its flowing waters quench the thirst of men—
A fountain from the rock of perfect rhyme,
With waters cold to please the yearning man—
A flow unending…
Contributor:
Sa‘adia Longo
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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I know a forest and in that forest
I know a hidden pool:
In the denseness of the wood, isolated from the world,
In the shades of a lofty oak, blessed by light and accustomed to storm,
Alone she…
Contributor:
Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1904
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Snow has fallen, with no light. A month
has gone by now or two, since autumn in its monkish cowl
brought tidings my way, a leaf from Ukrainian slopes:
“Remember it’s wintry here too, for the…
Contributor:
Paul Celan
Places:
Tabarasti, Kingdom of Romania
(Tabarasti, Romania)
Date:
1943
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And if Moyshe-Leyb, the poet, tells
That he saw Death on the high waves—
Just as he sees himself in a mirror,
And it was in the morning, around ten—
Will they believe Moyshe-Leyb?
And if Moyshe…
Contributor:
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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The rinsed fences dry themselves in the wind.
The kneaded black earth turns softer under my feet.
Soaked soil, tousled and wanton wind,
What more can I want from you today?
It seems to me that I’ve…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian SFSR
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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Hyacinth and mallow was I to God: lifelong
Only this pure sun fills, for each, the earth,
And an angel urges: “Bud, child, and bring forth
Among the biting thorns, your festive song.”
The damp…
Contributor:
Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian SFSR
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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Someone in a tales is walking your rooftops.
Only he is stirring in the city by night.
He listens. Old gray veins quicken—sound
Through courtyard and synagogue like a hoarse, dusty heart.
You are a…
Contributor:
Moyshe Kulbak
Date:
1929
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O, if through thy eyes, like through sea waves,
My love could sail like a ship,
Long ago with full sails I would have boldly
Struck to your heart, like to the Holy Land.
If you light up for me in…
Contributor:
Antoni Slonimski
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1933
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Before your shining, full eyes
How good it is to live;
Before their light every limb is taut
Like a eucalyptus after a storm are you:
Tired, strong and still moving in the wind
My head will reach to…
Contributor:
Esther Raab
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Date:
1922