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Laugh, laugh at all the dreams
I, the dreamer, declare them too.
Laugh that I have faith in mankind
And I still believe in you.
For my soul still yearns for freedom
I have not sold it for a calf of…
Contributor:
Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1894
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My lovely lady is like flights of scent—
the other day she opened like a flower—
She is beautiful as angels in the spring—
the other night her sun warmed my heart—
My lady’s lips are the single…
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Gustave Kahn
Places:
Lorraine, France
Date:
1897
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Household of eight.
Beds are two.
When it gets late,
What do they do?
Three with father,
Three with mother:
Limbs
Over each other.
When it’s night
And they go to bed,
Mother begins
To wish she…
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Avrom Reisen
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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I want to be a Pole. You have my word!
I want to reach the peak of Polishness
But I can find no way to manage:
They always shout: “You’re a jew!”
When I defend the jews from slander,
Hoping to…
Contributor:
Leo Belmont
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900
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Sky, have mercy on me!
If there be in you a God and to that God a path
and I have not found it—
you pray for me!
I—my heart’s dead and there’s no prayer left in my mouth
and no strength and no hope…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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Rise and go to the town of the killings and you’ll come to the yards
and with your eyes and your own hand feel the fence
and on the trees and on the stones and plaster of the walls
the congealed…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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Take me in under your wing
and be unto me mother and sister
and let your breast be my head’s rest,
home of my lonely prayers.
At the hour of mercy, at sunset,
list and I’ll reveal my sorrow’s root…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1906
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Let but the son of earth Remember from his birth That in the end He shall return: As at his birth he was, So shall he be.“Arise and prosper,” say ye unto himOf five years, whose…
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Nina Salaman
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1910
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And if the night
In its blue cloak
Abandons wood and vale,
And softly cries
With tears of dew
And crystal shards,
Then tear my heart
Out of my breast
And wash it in the dew—
And with your lips
Suck…
Contributor:
Fradl Shtok
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1910
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The fire of joy in solitude. . . And since in vain I have made this journey,The ground giving way to my burning steps,Let me embrace this ardorIn abstract revelry* * *
Contributor:
Henri Franck
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1912