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Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm
that draws to you life’s greatest joys.
Rounded like a bow, that brow,
or like a moon in half eclipse.
Your eye, beside it, is a pool,
all sparkle, like a…
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Joseph Tsarfati
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
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Early 16th Century
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My soul sighs, fate brings only trouble.
My spirit was lifted, and I grew bold.
I heard a voice: ‘Your poem is gold.
Who has learned to sing like you, Rachel?’
My spirit in turn replies: I’ve lost…
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Rachel Luzzatto Morpurgo
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Trieste, Habsburg Empire (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1847
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Then did Moses and the Children of Israel sing this song (Exodus 15:1). Before we explain the words of this song, it is appropriate to clarify its poetic structure. I maintain that we, the Israelite…
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Isaac Abravanel
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Early 16th Century
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Please listen to my words,
Wise, honest, and beautiful women
For my riddle is complete:
Against your faithful crew [of women]
Old men
Raise your shame to the stars
While I protect you,
Defend you…
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Judah Sommo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1577
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We should praise God eternally and proclaim His wonders, for He is revered and venerated by pious souls. He is powerful both on earth and in Heaven. His praise is unfathomable, no one can laud Him…
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Elye Bokher
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1507
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Why, death, do you tarry so?
Why does your chariot come so slow?
Old age has prepared for me
Every illness and complaint.
What good are my hundred years?
If such pain I undergo—
Why, death…
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Jacob Frances
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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A woman beautiful in every way
I give you—pedigreed, with every skill—
And all you want to know is what’s the dowry!
That’s not the way to think; that’s faulty judgment.
If you’d appraise her…
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Jacob Frances
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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I have set this stone as a weight, not as a memorial, over my wife’s grave, lest (God forbid!) she rise from the dead and come back home.
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Immanuel Frances
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17th Century
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Lord, I want to return to your word,
Lord, I want to pour out my wine,
Lord, I want to go, to go to you,
Lord, I do not know what should be done,
I am alone.
I am alone in empty air,
In terror of…
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Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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Over and over, when the wayside dust had grayed us,
And we came and knocked at another’s door,
He threatened us with his fist and gainsaid us:
This is not your place! Move on!
Over and over.
Over…
Contributor:
Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934