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First Line: "hear, o israel! And plead my cause against the ungodly nation"
Last Line: Wakened 'midst the struggle of death
Subject(s): Freedom;israel; Liberty


"HEAR, O ISRAEL!: 2", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hear, o israel! My people - to thy godly tents do I return with unstained hands"
Last Line: "deem thee from slavery, o my nation! And lead thee back to god"
Subject(s): Freedom;israel; Liberty


"HEAR, O ISRAEL!: 3", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "brothers mine, fling out your white banners over this red sea of wrath"
Last Line: Press on - press on
Subject(s): Freedom;israel;red Sea; Liberty


"HEAR, O ISRAEL!: 4", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ye, who are kings, princes, priests, and prophets. Ye"
Last Line: The god of jacob is our shield
Subject(s): Freedom;israel; Liberty


89 CLARENCE STREET, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father and I return to his old neighbourhood
Last Line: Let nothing fall or break
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


A CALL TO ISRAEL, by CORA WILBURN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where is the modern judah maccabee?
Last Line: Arise! Arm! Strike! Do freedom's holy will!
Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Oppression; Russia; Liberty; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians


A CALL TO THE BUILDERS, by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye may not rear it now,-though some aver
Last Line: The light of lives with oil of knowledge fed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Israel; Jerusalem; Jews; Synagogues; Judaism


A CRY FOR ZION, by LOUIS SMIRNOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold, as I sit here, alone and forlorn
Last Line: "here on earth, o return me, return my beth-el!"
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Pain; Zionism; Judaism; Suffering; Misery


A HYMN FOR THE RELIEF OF ISRAEL, by CANON JENKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When israel's sons in egypt groaned
Last Line: And set thy chosen people free!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression; Judaism


A HYMN OF ZION, by JOEL BLAU    Poem Text                    
First Line: Zion, we love thee well
Last Line: O'er zion's hill!
Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Israel; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Judaism


A SABBATH HYMN, by ISAAC BEN SOLOMON LURIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This day is for israel light and rejoicing
Last Line: Attributed to isaac luria.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ashkenazi, Isaac
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday


A SHORT HISTORY OF ISRAEL; NOTES AND GLOSSES: 11, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred generations, yes, a hundred and twenty-five
Subject(s): Israel


A SONG OF ISRAEL, by JAMES HAZARD CUTHBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O israel! Wanderer through the weary years
Last Line: Their warfare done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cuthbert, J. H.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Judaism; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


A SONG OF ZION, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are coming, we are coming. Fling our banner
Last Line: Behold the hosts of israel are coming, coming home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; National Songs; Zionism; Judaism; National Anthems


A SONG OF ZION, by WALTER VERNON-EPSTEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jerusalem, my boast and pride
Last Line: Our fatherland to see.
Subject(s): Faith; Israel; Jews; Patriotism; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Judaism


A TALE FROM THE TALMUD, by WILLIAM DEARNESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In judah, in the days of story
Last Line: Her hero dames shall bloom amain.
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism; Dictators


A TRIBUTE TO THE JEWS, by RUFUS CLEMENT HOPKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Since terah's son from chaldea went
Last Line: In science, literature and art.
Subject(s): Bible; Honor; Israel; Jews; Judaism


ABOUT HER & ABOUT HIM, by MIRIAM OREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's going to the negev
Last Line: The preoccupied stars in distant skies
Subject(s): Israel; Physicians


ADAS ISRAEL, by M. BEYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O israel! In the morn's returning light
Last Line: The shining glories of thine ancient reign.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judaism


ADORATION, by DAVID LEVY    Poem Text                    
First Line: To israel the charge belongs
Last Line: And one thy name shall be.
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Love; Worship; Judaism


AFTER THE DEATH OF CANADIAN MARNIE KIMELMAN BY TERRORISTS ON A TEL...., by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The beach severed from summer
Last Line: To blank pages
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


AKIBA, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O heart, who art a fable, new and true
Last Line: Aye, kissed by god, your feet on crowns have trod.
Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Death; Heaven; Israel; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism


ALONE WITH THE ISRAELITES, by RYAN OBA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have taken to watching my plants turn toward the sun
Last Line: Who would hold heaven in the hollow of his hand?
Subject(s): Israel; Nature


AND DAVID MOVED THROUGH A SECRET PASSAGE TO CONQUER THE CITY, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We stand outside these ancient walls
Last Line: Knowledge is in your hands
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


APPLE: 1, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In israel at that time just after the war
Last Line: Were you to eat a bit of my survivor's heart %even the size of an apple seed, %it would poison you
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Israel; Jews


APPLE: 2, by WILLIAM HEYEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In israel at that time just after the war
Last Line: Perhaps this was the eye of the angel %of the camps. I cupped it in my hands. %I swallowed at least
Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Israel; Jews


AWAKENING, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where wait the soldiers of the lord
Last Line: From scabbard's rust!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism


BAR KOCHBA, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep, israel! Your tardy need outpour
Last Line: Nobler the conquered than the conqueror's end!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


BEFORE THE ARK, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When solomon, great king of israel
Last Line: "know ye before whom you stand!"
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Temples; Judaism; Mosques


BOTH SIDES, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On both sides the lines are long
Last Line: A prisoner of war
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


BY BABEL'S STREAMS, by HENRY PEREIRA MENDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By babel's streams we sat, we wept
Last Line: If we forget thy glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mendes, H. Pereira
Subject(s): Bible; Israel; Jews; Judaism


BY THE WAY EZRA I FORGIVE YOUR ANTI-SEMITISM, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are all seated at the great literary table
Last Line: Of personal letters
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


CAESAREA, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We came here like romans
Last Line: We were neither statues nor gods
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


CARGO MOVING TO GAZA (1988), by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree donated years back struggles
Subject(s): Arabs; Israel (state); Life; Middle East - Conflicts; Arab-israeli Conflict


CHANUKAH, by MARGARET FREEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little candles shed your light
Last Line: Would we need a maccabee?
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Israel; Jews; Light; Judaism


CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by HAROLD DEBREST    Poem Text                    
First Line: You see these slender tapers standing there
Last Line: Its way to god and immortality.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Israel; Jews; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism


CHATEAU, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leafing through the book on artists
Last Line: And fields and more fields where nothing grows
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


CONFLICT, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the distance black clouds
Last Line: Finally claims us
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


DAVID, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O for a feast, pomegranate wine, and song
Last Line: Over the world, even amid death
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Death; Israel; Plays And Playwrights; Prophets And Prophecy; Religion


DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID: BOOK 4, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho' state and kind discourse thus robb'd the night
Last Line: Well-chosen and well-furnish'd for the chase.
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Israel; Jonathan (bible); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


DESERT, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so you have appeared
Last Line: And the throat will no longer swallow
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


DORA BARACK AT 95, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We gather to listen
Last Line: And return to the heavens
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


EE-CHOVOUD, by SAMPSON RAPHAEL HIRSCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, o lord! How long
Last Line: For 'tis long, o father; oh, how long!
Subject(s): Despair; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism


EXODUS X: 21-23, by JOHN WILLIAM BURGON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When israel dwelt in egypt's land
Last Line: While all seems dark and cheerless round!
Subject(s): Bible; Exodus From Egypt; Israel; Jews; Judaism


FIN DE SIECLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What! Do I hear the nations boast
Last Line: Or reason for dismay!
Subject(s): Israel;jews;right To Asylum; Judaism


FIRST POGROM, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the warnings of the rabbis and the fears of the peasants stepping out
Last Line: In the village or a shallow family grave
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


FLOATING (2), by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Floating we'd meander
Last Line: Before closing
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


FOUNTAIN FROM WILDERNESS STONE, by DAVID ROSENBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: When israel came out of egypt
Subject(s): Israel; Religion


FROM A DISTANCE THE TOMBSTONES LOOK LIKE A FLOCK OF STORKS, by RONNY SOMECK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I was the only one who knew about this, %now I'm the one who can remember it
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Israel; Memory


GENESIS, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I wake before you
Last Line: The sun on this the first day
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day sat by with banner furled
Last Line: Than all such kings as keep where follies are
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Israel


GRACE FOR THE SABBATH, by ALICE LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To israel this day is joy ever bless'd
Last Line: Is light and is gladness, a sabbath of rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday


HE WATCHETH OVER ISRAEL, by SOLOMON L. LONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though our harps hang on the willows
Last Line: And he slumbers not, nor sleeps.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


HEBRON; THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long had the saracen with ruthless arms
Last Line: The 'ladder' and the 'cross', with promise sweet!
Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Hebron, Israel


HEBRON; THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How doth the crescent brook this mighty charge?
Last Line: And let poor israel share the new-won prize.
Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Hebron, Israel


HIS PEOPLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He set us free
Last Line: Thy yoke we hear / for thy name's sake!
Subject(s): Freedom;god;israel;jacob (bible);jews; Liberty;judaism


HOLY LAND, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over beds wearing thick homespun cotton
Last Line: Of their shoes.
Subject(s): Israel; Language; Palestine; Women; Words; Vocabulary


HONOR OF THE JEWS, by WILLIAM HODSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thrice happy nation! Favorite of heaven!
Last Line: The gentile world jehovah's awful name.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Judaism


HOW DID A FLAG BEGIN?, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How did a flag begin? Suppose there was something whole
Last Line: And it, too, is a flag
Subject(s): Flags - Israel


I WOULD REPLY, by MILTON GOLDSMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: If one should say, 'thou art a jew
Last Line: "the jew professed them long ago."
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Israel; Jews; Judaism


ICHABOD, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A panting messenger of woe and dread
Last Line: She lost the ark, but found the living god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Israel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


IN SHUSHAN, by E. YANCEY COHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O'er lordly shushan's terrac'd walls
Last Line: "of the deep-bosom'd, endless blue!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Israel; Jews; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism


IN THE LAND OF OUR FATHERS, by K. L. SILLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blue are the skies in the land of our fathers
Last Line: Sailing the ocean of blue.
Subject(s): Home; Israel; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Judaism; Ocean


IN THE MAN OF LIGHT, THE WORLD TRANSCENDED BEARS THE GIFT OF STARS, by PETER O'LEARY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I found light in force: %it phosphoresced its million brilliances
Subject(s): Monastery Of St. Catherine, Israel


IN THIS AMPHITHEATRE, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this amphitheatre
Last Line: Once again as night
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


ISRAEL, by MAX MEYERHARDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How great, o israel, have thy sufferings been
Last Line: "the god of judah is our lord and king!"
Subject(s): Bible; History; Inquisition; Israel; Jews; Historians; Judaism


ISRAEL, by IDA GOLDSMITH MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She stands among the nations of the earth
Last Line: He guards thee still, who spoke from sinai's mount!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Judaism


ISRAEL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think of the liberation of palestine
Subject(s): Israel (state)


ISRAEL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think of the liberation of palestine
Last Line: Speak the name only of the living land
Subject(s): Israel (state)


ISRAEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear, o israel, jehovah, the lord our god is one
Last Line: But we, jehovah his people, are dual and so undone.
Subject(s): Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict


ISRAEL AND HIS BOOK, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An age-worn wanderer, pale with thought and tears
Last Line: The wondrous promise grief could not conceal!
Subject(s): Bible; God; Israel; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology


ISRAEL FORSAKEN, by CHARLES LEON GUMPERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah! Ingrate people whom I sought to please!
Last Line: Oh! Ingrate people, while I sit forlorn!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


ISRAEL MOCKED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'why so sad, thou princely child?'"
Last Line: Flow unresistingly
Subject(s): God;israel;jews; Judaism


ISRAEL'S HERITAGE, by IDA GOLDSMITH MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How shall we spend, o lord
Last Line: May claim its precious heritage!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Israel; Jews; Judaism


ISRAEL'S LAMENT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: And art thou dead? And has thy spirit gone
Last Line: Would humbly place my modest wayside flower.
Subject(s): Israel; Lament; Mourning; Bereavement


ISRAEL'S MISSION, by EVE DAVIESON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a mighty vision from the skies
Last Line: Shall bless thee then!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Missionaries & Missions; Judaism


ISRAELI CONFLICT, by TERESE SVOBODA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone drags a gun
Last Line: Your heart beating %hard against his
Subject(s): Israel (state); Quarrels


ISRAELITE, by SEM TOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rose that twines a thorny sprig
Last Line: Because they issue from a jew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Santob De Carrion; Santo, Don
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


JAFFA, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a porch in jaffa
Last Line: Uncertain if it's tin or gold
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


JERUSALEM (1), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm not interested in / who suffered the most
Last Line: It's late but everything comes next.
Subject(s): Healing; Israel; Jerusalem; Palestine; Peace; Cures


JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And up again because
Last Line: In the bush of shadow %for the ram
Subject(s): Israel


JEZREEL; ON ITS SEIZURE BY THE ENGLISH UNDER ALLENBY, 1918, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did they catch as it were in a vision at shut of day
Last Line: Yea, strange things and spectral may men have beheld in jezreel!
Subject(s): Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman (1861-1936); Jezreel, Israel; Soldiers; World War I; Allenby Of Megiddo, First Viscount; First World War


JUDAEIS VITA AETERNA, by CHARLES N. LURIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not for our sake, o lord!
Last Line: Unto our god, the lord most high!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Judaism


JUDAH, by GEORGE R. DU BOIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: While the tribes of earth yet in the darkness
Last Line: Or tarnish a name unsoiled.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Judaism


KIBBUTZ SHAMIR ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 17, 1981, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: One by one we returned to the north
Last Line: Somewhere in the night
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


KOL NIDRE, by MAX OSIAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In lonely hours of thought I long
Last Line: O hymn of israel.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Music & Musicians; Thought; Judaism; Thinking


LINES FOR THE NINTH OF AB, by SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I sorrow, oh desolate city
Last Line: "and keep—as a shepherd his fold!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cohen, Solomon Solis
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Judaism


LINES TO A JEWISH CHILD, by C. D.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dark depths of those great soulful eyes
Last Line: What pride a jew must feel to be a jew!
Subject(s): Children; Israel; Jesus Christ; Jews; Childhood; Judaism


LOVE OF THE COUNTRY, by YITZHAK LAOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: And isn't anything beautiful %in this country? You ask me, and I reply
Last Line: On the slope of mount carmel
Subject(s): Israel; Middle East - Conflicts


MAID OF PERSIA, by HARRY WEISS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Maid of persia, myrtle named
Last Line: Be thy spirit ever near.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Israel; Jews; Women; Judaism


MAN WITH NO PROFESSION, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a time when everyone was known by his profession
Last Line: With no profession
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


MARY, by CARLA LANYON LANYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When that my son was born in a little town
Last Line: To keep a christian peace.
Subject(s): Israel (state); Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Discrimination; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary; Religious Conflict


MAYER SULZBERGER, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The muse, that first lent grace to gratitude
Last Line: And held in love, our country's foremost jew!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Sulzberger, Mayer (1843-1923); Judaism


MENORAH, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We've read in legends of the books of old
Last Line: "and keeps me what I am today in every clime."
Subject(s): Candles; Israel; Jews; Judah (bible); Synagogues; Judaism


MIZPAH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A broad gold band engraven
Last Line: Keep watch 'tween me and thee
Subject(s): God;israel;jews; Judaism


MODEL FAMILY, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am handed another piece, carefully I squeeze the tweezers
Last Line: From the model of their lives
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


MORDECAI, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'now say, my queen,' the monarch cries"
Last Line: While thou hast bread to spare!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;israel;jews;jews - Women; Judaism


MY BUBBY'S HOUSE, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She began the day with the morning prayers
Last Line: And look heavenward
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


MY GRANDFATHER AND THE BLUES, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the cantor holds the last high note
Last Line: Except his voice
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


MY HERITAGE, by CORA WILBURN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A glorious heritage is mine
Last Line: In victory o'er despair!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Israel; Jews; Judaism


NA-HA-MOO, by J. C. LEVY    Poem Text                    
First Line: By babel's streams, thy children wept
Last Line: "with blessings of his ""na-ha-moo."
Subject(s): Bible; Israel; Jews; Judaism


NATIONAL THOUGHTS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman, caught in a homeland-trap of the chosen people: you
Last Line: And to sleep inside it, forever
Subject(s): Jews; Israel; Hebrew Language; Judaism


NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were the reason for staying
Last Line: Washing it away.
Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood


O ISRAEL, by ROBERT LOVEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O israel, thy glory gleamed
Last Line: O israel, sweet israel.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Peace; Judaism


O SWEET ANEMONES!, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sweet anemones on sharon's plain
Last Line: Who still remembers, lives, refreshed with tears.
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism


ODDA, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The smoke rises from the earth
Last Line: At night as fiery pillars %over israel
Subject(s): Fire; Israel; Smoke; Volcanoes


OF ISRAEL AND THE LANGUAGE, by KAREN ALKALAY-GUT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every %word %here %costs %dear
Last Line: And a banner that said: %no more banners
Subject(s): Israel


OH! WEEP FOR THOSE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Weep for those that wept by babel's stream
Last Line: Mankind their country -- israel but the grave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


ON BEING DISCOVERED A STOWAWAY, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the canvas was lifted he could feel hundreds of silver eyes
Last Line: How long since you've eaten boy?
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


ON THE NIGHT RABIN WAS KILLED, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the night rabin was killed the voices of the holy
Last Line: Into place
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


ON TO THE PROMISED LAND, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dawning sun breaks through the sable cloud!
Last Line: Of freedom for the never-conquered jew!
Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Patriotism; Zionism; Judaism


ON!, by GEORGE BENEDICT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When israel marched from egypt land
Last Line: And let us on, on, on!
Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Liberty; Judaism


OUR HERITAGE, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We own no kingdom and we flaunt no king
Last Line: The jews draw strenuous force and vigorous life.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Israel; Jews; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism


OUT OF EGYPT, by DOROTHEA DE PASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The flaming sunset bathed the distant hills
Last Line: Of sin.
Subject(s): Bible; Israel; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism


PEOPLE OF ZION, by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: From far-off ages hath this people sprung
Last Line: A long white pathway shining on the night!
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Judaism


PESACH LE' OSID (THE PASSOVER OF THE FUTURE), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Israel in fetters still! The prophet's wind
Last Line: The clouds shall pass and earth shall grow like heaven
Subject(s): Israel;jews;passover; Judaism


PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CHILDREN, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the family photograph
Last Line: For a hand full of air
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


PIONEERING, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so we are halutzim
Last Line: I recite the manifesto of love
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


PSALM 114, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When israel went out of egypt, the house of jacob
Last Line: The flint into a fountain of waters
Subject(s): Israel


PSALM: 5, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bow downe thine eare
Last Line: As with a shield him guard.
Subject(s): Evil; God; Israel; Religion; Sin; Theology


PURIM, 1900, by ALICE D. BRAHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou poor wan phantom of a vanished joy
Last Line: Israel forgets thee, purim! Thou art dead.
Subject(s): Holidays; Israel; Jews; Massacres; Judaism


PUTNAM, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the haughty smile, the low defame
Last Line: Was the soldier's welcome there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): American Revolution; Putnam, Israel (1718-1790)


RALLYING SONG, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My people, my people! Arise, o bleeding east
Last Line: To consecrate her name.
Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Liberty; Judaism


REDEMPTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "awake, oh israel! And hear"
Last Line: A people honored by all men
Subject(s): Israel;jews;redemption;zionism; Judaism


REMEMBER THE CASTLE, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I remember the castle
Last Line: For one afternoon
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


RUDE ARE THE TABERNACLES NOW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Who did this sovereign gift accord!
Subject(s): God;israel;jews;prayer; Judaism


SACRILEGIOUS, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above the white linen altar cloth the figure of jesus
Last Line: On my tongue and let it melt there like the host
Subject(s): Altars; Israel; Jesus Christ; Religion


SELICHOTH, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the pride of the rose is the image of sorrow
Last Line: So prayeth the jew with the genius of sorrow!
Subject(s): Grief; Israel; Jews; Synagogues; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism


SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 6, by YEHUDA AMICHAI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is all of this / sorrow? I don't know
Last Line: Or where it comes from
Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; Cemeteries; Israel; Patriotism; Grief; Arab-israeli Conflict


SHABBAT LUNCH WITH IRAQI JEWISH FRIENDS IN JERUSALEM, by DANNY SIEGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ate too much food
Subject(s): Israel


SHEMA YISRAEL ADONAY-ELOHAINU ADONAY-ECHOD, by IBBIE MCCOLM WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shema yisrael,' is the lesson we learn
Last Line: "shema yisrael!"
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Youth; Judaism


SHEMA-YISRAEL-ADONAI-ELOHENU ADONAI-ECHOD, by NATHAN BERNSTEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O god of israel, lord on high
Last Line: And that we worship thee with joy.
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Judaism


SIMCHAS TORAH, by CALMAN DAVID MATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Full oft has the ark been opened
Last Line: Begin to read it anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Matt, C. David
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Memory; Judaism


SONG OF DEGREES, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though the road lead nowhere
Last Line: In zion everywhere
Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; Israel


SONG OF ISRAEL TO GOD, by YEHUDA HALEVI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love! Hast thou forgotten / thy rest
Last Line: For I give thee my love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Praise; Judaism


SONG OF JUDAS MACCABEUS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF MASPHA, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On, warriors and chiefs! Every step we have trod
Last Line: We have conquered or died for the glory of god.
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Martyrs; War; Judaism


SONG OF THE DEW, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o rain, depart with blessings"
Last Line: Let fall this day thy dew!
Subject(s): God;israel;jews;prayer; Judaism


SOUND TRAVELLER, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under the full moon I rattle the sacred
Last Line: A seed in the pocket of their blood
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


SUNSHINE AFTER STORM; A TALE FROM THE TALMUD, by WILLIAM DEARNESS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rabbi viewed on zion's hill
Last Line: His higher destiny to hasten.
Subject(s): Clergy; Israel; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism


TEL AVIV BEACH, WINTER '74, by RAQUEL CHALFI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A crocodile-cloud swallowed
Last Line: He was an angel
Subject(s): Israel


THE ALL FATHER'S WORD, by EMILY SOLIS COHEN JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When ransomed israel saw the returning sea
Last Line: "peace. They that perish are my children too."
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Peace; Judaism


THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, by NINA DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a legend full of joy and pain
Last Line: Within its place.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Legends; Temples; Judaism; Mosques


THE ARMY OF ISRAEL AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT SINAI, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Their spears glittered bright in the beams of the sun
Last Line: Then, israel, turn back -- oh! Return, or ye die.
Subject(s): Israel


THE AWAKENING OF ISRAEL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Must the sea plead in vain that the river
Last Line: And rule in the realm he has made
Subject(s): Israel;jews;zionism; Judaism


THE BANNER OF THE JEW, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake, israel, wake! Recall today
Last Line: Strike! For the brave revere the brave!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, by HENRY THOMAS SCHNITTKIND    Poem Text                    
First Line: But the waves of the fury of nations
Last Line: To bring them home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, Henry+(2)
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


THE CHILDREN OF THE PALE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "whence comes this motley, dark-eyed, swarthy / crowd"
Last Line: Recalling ancient stories proudly told / of israel's line
Subject(s): Children;history;israel;jews; Childhood;historians;judaism


THE CRY OF ISRAEL, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou knowest my tongue, o god
Last Line: Tarry no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Judaism


THE DAWN OF HOPE, by CONSTANCE PESSELS    Poem Text                    
First Line: See how the people of israel come trooping
Last Line: Gather again in thy sheltering fold.
Subject(s): Hope; Israel; Jews; Zionism; Optimism; Judaism


THE EMPEROR AND THE RABBI, by GEORGE CROLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old rabbi, what tales dost thou pour in mine ear
Last Line: "the sovereign of him, and the sovereign of thee!"
Subject(s): Clergy; Israel; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism


THE EVERLASTING JEW, by HENRY B. SOMMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lift up thy head, o israel, gird thine armor on / anew
Last Line: That the only real aristocrat is the everlasting jew!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


THE FATED RACE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What! Still reject the fated race
Last Line: Immanuel-was a jew
Subject(s): Heroism;israel;jews;sacrifices; Heroes;heroines;judaism


THE FEAST OF LIGHTS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kindle the taper like the steadfast star
Last Line: The maccabean spirit leap new-born!
Subject(s): Faith; Israel; Jews; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Belief; Creed; Judaism


THE GLORY OF ISRAEL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a glory once in israel
Last Line: The heritage of immortality.
Subject(s): Israel


THE HEARTS OF ISRAEL, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: The hearts that cling to israel
Last Line: Each heart in israel!
Subject(s): Hearts; Israel; Jews; Love; Judaism


THE HEAVENLY LIGHT; SHEVUOTH, by MAX MEYERHARDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When israel in the wilderness
Last Line: May reach with joy the heavenly land.
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Israel; Jews; Paradise; Judaism


THE HOLY LAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have not felt, o'er seas of sand
Last Line: And bowed his head to bless -- and died!
Subject(s): Israel


THE IMMORTALITY OF ISRAEL, by YEHUDA HALEVI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun and moon unchanging do obey
Last Line: While night and day do alternate in peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jacob (bible); Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141); Judaism; Yehuda Ben Shemuel Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan


THE INTRUDER, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once in my secluded chamber
Last Line: "stay""—and I awoke. ..."
Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M.
Variant Title(s): ...whom You Are To Blame'
Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Literature; Israel; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Oppression


THE JEW IS TRUE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go forth among this homeless race
Last Line: The better christian is the jew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Israel; Jews; Religion - Reformers; Judaism


THE JEW'S APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN, by J. W. BLENCOWE JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cease, christian, cease the word of scorn
Last Line: On judah's race—on israel's name.
Subject(s): Christianity; Israel; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Judah (bible); Judaism


THE JEWISH MARTYR, by MOSS MARKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring forth the jew!' ben hassim said, 'the
Last Line: "but mine it is the triumph—I die for faith and truth."
Subject(s): Death; Israel; Jews; Martyrs; Dead, The; Judaism


THE JEWS OF BUCHAREST, by EDWARD SYDNEY TYBEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take heed; the stairs are worn and damp!'
Last Line: Our coming lord hath deigned to wear.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Oppression; Judaism


THE KADDISH, by W. W.    Poem Text                    
First Line: According to his righteous will
Last Line: And say, amen, with one accord.
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Judaism


THE MACCABEES, by MIRIAM MYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When you tell of israel's heroes, those who lived
Last Line: Sing aloud the well-earned praises of the maccabees so bold.
Subject(s): Heroism; Israel; Jews; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism


THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS, by R. A. LEVY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wail comes o'er the swelling seas
Last Line: "how long, our father, o! How long!"
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Massacres; Tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism; Dictators


THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS AT YORK, by MARION MOSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is an old and stately hall
Last Line: The self-devoted victims sung—halleluyah!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Massacres; Judaism


THE MENORAH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the temple, softly, clearly burning
Last Line: Is the blessed law of israel!
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Israel; Jews; Religion; Temples; Judaism; Theology; Mosques


THE MENORAH, by HARRY AUSTRYN WOLFSOHN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For ages imprisoned in shadow
Last Line: The course of our future years!
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Light; Synagogues; Judaism


THE MEZUZAH, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cerberus breakers that brawl and that cry
Last Line: On the threshold and doorpost, we also see god!
Subject(s): God; Israel; Jews; Praise; Judaism


THE MIRACULOUS OIL, by CAROLINE DEUTSCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little cruet in the temple
Last Line: Through the centuries of darkest night!
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Light; Temples; Judaism; Mosques


THE MORAL OF IT, by SAMUEL GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: So once more the ancient story lifts its voice undulled / by age
Last Line: ^1^ the legendary name of the wandering jew.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


THE MYSTIC TIE, by MAX MEYERHARDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a mystic tie that joins
Last Line: Which time and change cannot efface.
Subject(s): Children; Hebrew Language; Israel; Jews; Childhood; Judaism


THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings
Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery


THE POET'S SPIRIT, by JOSEPH FITZPATRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: No dirge or solemn bell
Last Line: Jehovah's living fire.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Zionism; Judaism


THE POETS OF OLD ISRAEL, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old israel's readers of the stars
Last Line: Abides, quenchless forevermore.
Subject(s): Books; God; Israel; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Judaism


THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of zion, from the dust
Last Line: And everlasting joy.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism


THE RETURN, by R. E. I.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wide open, ye doors, and raise up high, o gate
Last Line: Rejoicing as bridegroom that greeteth his bride.
Subject(s): Flags; Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


THE RETURN FROM THE CAPTIVITY, by MARION MOSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Arise! Sons of israel, arise!
Last Line: Raise the hymn of thanksgiving,—thou'rt free.
Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Slavery; Liberty; Judaism; Serfs


THE SANCTUARY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In israel was many a refuge city
Last Line: His own calm breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): God; Heaven; Israel (state); Sanctuaries; Paradise


THE SEDER, by J. F.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ring in the glorious festal-tide
Last Line: This happy festal-tide.
Subject(s): Feasts; Israel; Jews; Judaism


THE SONG OF CAPTIVE ISRAEL, by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, sweep the harp! One thrilling rush
Last Line: And thus we sever: fare thee well!
Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath
Subject(s): Israel


THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike
Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame!
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SPIRIT OF HEBRAISM, by HARRY AUSTRYN WOLFSOHN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me my spirit's departed
Last Line: Where its flag will blazon unfurled.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Israel; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Judaism


THE WAILING PLACE IN JERUSALEM, by LOUIS FEDERLEICHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: With heads bowed down, they stand with streaming / eyes
Last Line: Or carmel's vines look on the midland seas.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


THEODORE HERZL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, o prince, farewell, o sorely tried!
Last Line: "next year,"" we cry, ""next year, jerusalem."
Subject(s): Death; Herzl, Theodore (1860-1904); Israel; Jews; Zionism; Dead, The; Judaism


TIMING, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I marvel at my grandfather's timing
Last Line: Of darkness to scream and applaud
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


TIS TO THE EAST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Will guide his people home
Subject(s): Hebrew Language;israel;jews;zionism; Judaism


TO THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, by KENNETH ROSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enjoy yourselves,' said moses
Subject(s): Israel


TO TRACE FROM HEBREW, by ECE AYHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My legs are long
Last Line: And a holiday full of flags in a city %in hebrew
Variant Title(s): Address To The Nightingale; Philome
Subject(s): Israel


TO YOUNG ISRAEL, by MAX OSIAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How cloudy is the sky!
Last Line: "the world's gem."
Subject(s): Freedom; Israel; Jews; Liberty; Judaism


TO ZION, by M. B. S.    Poem Text                    
First Line: O people long oppressed and stricken sore
Last Line: O judah, tarry not! Israel arise.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism


TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF RESCUE WORK, by ALICE LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shamed and degraded you call them-they!
Last Line: God do so to us and more also, if we do not set them free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Judaism


TWO FROM ISRAEL, SELS., by DOM MORAES                       
Subject(s): Israel


WESTERN WALL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so through the jaffa gate, the street
Last Line: Keep crying in our throats
Subject(s): Israel


WHEN ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT CAME, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To my inheritance amid %the nation that is not
Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E.
Subject(s): Israel


WHEN YOU SPEAK, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you speak
Last Line: Never flew
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


WHERE I WRITE, by RAFI AARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is this moment
Last Line: Leaving a thin blue line
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape


WHO SERVES BEST, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In stern debate, all through the night they strove
Last Line: And ere they grasped the vision, it declined.
Subject(s): Clergy; Israel; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism


YIGDAL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The living god, o magnify and bless
Last Line: And let his praise resound for evermore.
Subject(s): Creation; God; Israel; Jews; Judaism


ZION, by LOUIS FEDERLEICHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lovely dwellings fall the fervid rays
Last Line: All over olivet the morning breaks.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Nations; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Zionism; Judaism


ZIONISM, by MIRIAM BLAUSTEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O star of hope! O blessed star!
Last Line: Be thou to israel far and near.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism


ZIONISM, by HERBERT N. CARSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The story that herzl told was true
Last Line: For the dream of the strong comes true.
Subject(s): Flags; Israel; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism


ZIONISM, by JOSEPH LEISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dreamers are not dead in israel
Last Line: And dawn breaks o'er an orphaned palestine.
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism


ZIONIST MARCHING SONG, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the crash of the thunder
Last Line: In jordan now set we our watch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts
Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Zionism; Judaism