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When night draws near your window, come to him naked.
Softly will he ripple and darken round your still beauty, touching the tips of your breasts.
I shall stand with him there, a stray wanderer…
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David Fogel
Places:
Vienna, First Austrian Republic (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1923
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King David was old, advanced in years. Though covered in bedclothes, he could not get warm. They searched the land of Israel for a beautiful young woman and found Abischag the Shunammite, who was…
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André Spire
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1925
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Opposite the windowsill is a shuttered curtain and a wasteland of chimneys. The street is being drained of life. A double-decker bus with gleaming windows of light passes by the corner. A woman pushes…
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Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1966
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Why should I take it to heart
I have new things on my mind,
Imagination that helps me to forget at times.
Why should I take it to heart
I have so much before that to love,
I always have friends…
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Arik Einstein, Shalom Hanoch
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1970
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He did not object to their unending walk, on and on until they reached a quiet spot. He did not complain of feeling tired. He did not insist that the blanket should be spread somewhere nearer to other…
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Adolf Rudnicki
Places:
Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1951
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Yetkhen:And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I have…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
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Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)
Date:
1796
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Gadhi, A PariaMaja, his WifeBenassar, Indian Attendant
Contributor:
Michael Beer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1823
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Sheltered by a crimson awning,
All alone, his slaves dismissed,
A lord is bidding farewell fondly
To a black-browed odalisque.
“Sarah, houri of the prophet,
My sunshine, comfort, strength, delight…
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Afanasy Fet
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1847
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Dedicated to my friend Ignacio Móntes de Oca.
Why, if summer strips the garden
Of flowers and verdant foliage,
Does Spring so generously restore
Lush greenery, soft flowers,
And brilliant color;
An…
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Salomón López Fonseca
Places:
Coro, Venezuela
Date:
1877
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Listen, my friends, pay attention!
Be silent, do not restrain me,
Nor say, “That fellow Amīānā’s been unfaithful,
His heart and tongue in two directions pull;
If not, why did he leave his native…
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Amīnā
Places:
Kashan, Ottoman Empire (Kashan, Iran)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century