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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
A fountain surges from my verse’s house
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A fountain surges from my verse’s house.    Its flowing waters quench the thirst of men— A fountain from the rock of perfect rhyme,    With waters cold to please the yearning man— A flow unending…

Contributor:

Sa‘adia Longo

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

End of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Poetry, Poets, Wisdom, Ecology, Allegory

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Popular Poetry