“He Said, Don’t Sleep” (Rabbi Adonim Halevi Poems)
He said, "Don't sleep. Drink old winewith myrrh and lilies, henna and aloes,in an orchard of pomegranates, palm, and vinesfull ...
He said, "Don't sleep. Drink old winewith myrrh and lilies, henna and aloes,in an orchard of pomegranates, palm, and vinesfull ...
Witness all: that unrepenting, Feathers flying, music high,I go down to death unshaken By your mean philosophy.For your wages, take my body, That ...
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
But when the days were numbered, then befellThe parting of our Lord — which was to be —Whereby came wailing ...
With fierce noons beaming, moons of glory gleaming, Full conduits streaming, where fair bathers lie, With sunsets ...
SHEPHERD Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel, Bell-capped, bellevued, straight-jacketed and decked With chromium palms and a fromage of moon, Not ...
Thou wants my vote, young man wi' t' carpet-bags, Weel, sit thee down, an' hark what I've to say.It's ...
Hooded crows fly at night over the walls of Chang'an,uttering harsh cries above Welcoming Autumn Gate,then head for ...
The noble lion groweth old, The weight of years his eyesight dims, And strength deserts his mighty limbs,His once warm ...
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights; We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as ...
1901 ". . . and will supply details to guard the Blood River Bridge." District Orders-Lines of Communication, South African ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
He claimed no responsibility, no ownership of the injustice, the unholy death of the innocent man Absolving himself, washing the ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
YOU are a sky of autumn, pale and rose; But all the sea of sadness in my blood Surges, and ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
I long to go over there to the further bank of the river. Where those boats are tied to the ...
Scarlet coats, and crash o' the band, The grey of a pauper's gown, A soldier's grave in Zululand, And a ...
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