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On Life’s Deception and Disillusion
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Sad is the man who forgets God without waking from the dream of his error, and of the evil that awaits him is never aware until his sin of his death is the cause. In his obstinate and…

Contributor:

Daniel Levi de Barrios

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

ca. 1665

Subjects:

Piety, Sin, Philosophy, Theology, Sephardic

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Prayer & Liturgy
Print portrait of seated figure with a dragon under his feet and an angel above him, next to an armed figure standing and holding a flag, and a boy pointing to the angel, with Spanish text around the edge and in several places in the scene.
To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
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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

Subjects:

Poetry, Poets, Philosophy, Ecology

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Popular Poetry