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Hush little baby. Forty-six years now
the night has rocked itself in my empty cradle
Now a gray head is rocked to sleep with the same tune:
Standing at the cradle’s head
No angel with two white wings…
Contributor:
Chaim Grade
Places:
Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1936
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I have studied the science of leaving
in night’s unbraided sorrows.
Oxen ruminate—the waiting lingers to the final
hour of the city’s vigil—and I honor rituals
from that other night—the rooster…
Contributor:
Osip Mandelstam
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1917
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There are many riddles in life,
Mounds and mounds of answers too;
The wise men have many solutions,
The morons have a desire for life.
Once a wise man told me:
“There is one essence of being,
Only…
Contributor:
Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1907
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You Will Be Wrapped in Silk
“And how do you merit to live so long?”
—Because I know there is need to consider.
At my birth someone said, “He will be wrapped
in silk.” And now the guests are…
Contributor:
Allen Grossman
Places:
Chelsea, United States of America
Date:
2003
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Not in vain did I vow to be faithful,
not in vain did I tag at your heels.
With the mole I struggled from darkness,
stubborn and under a spell.
You, grief of the nails on my fingers,
you, woe of my…
Contributor:
Nathan Alterman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940
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On the other side of the poem there is an orchard,
and in the orchard, a house with a roof of straw,
and three pine trees,
three watchmen who never speak, standing guard.
On the other side of the…
Contributor:
Rokhl Korn
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1962