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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JEWS Matches Found: 2574 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BEHOLD, O LORD, THY FAITHFUL PEOPLE!", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "as free-will gifts, as bonds of love" Subject(s): Family Life;jews;love;parents;togetherness; Relatives;judaism;parenthood "BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Disraeli dead! The trappings of late days Last Line: A tear upon the wreath Subject(s): "death;disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881);honor;jews;memory;" "dead, The;judaism; "NOW DIE AWAY, MY TUNEFUL SONG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: In recent shrouds Subject(s): Jews;mourning; Judaism;bereavement "SIR HUGH, OR THE JEW'S DAUGHTER (1)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Four and twenty bonny boys Last Line: Sin adam's days begun Subject(s): Jews;murder; Judaism "THE FIRST, THE LAST: A POEM OF EZRA", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He said to me: in the beginning of the world Last Line: So the end will come through me & through no other Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism "THE PIRKE DE RABBI ELIEZER, SELS.", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The origin of sky / was from the light of his own robe Last Line: Be earth Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism ... AND THE EARTH REBELLED, by YURI SUHL Poem Source First Line: The earth rebelled. %the good and patient earth Last Line: Add to the prayer, the ashes, and the book, %the thunder of a jewish fighter's gun! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1648 : FOR COSSACKS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bitter times / the cossack krivno Last Line: Jewish prey Subject(s): Cossacks;jews;mysticism - Judaism;pogroms; Judaism 19-NOV-42, by DEBORAH ESTHER SCHIFTER Poem Source First Line: The stench, it seemed, had been there forever. %the jews of Last Line: Then they were told to enter the shower Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women 1905, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my father walked through mud Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism 1905, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my father walked through mud Last Line: And that was the torment Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1932, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Harry saul wraps the leather straps of tefillin boxes around Last Line: She makes the man oatmeal and coffee Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews - Women 1939, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman takes a small girl's hand Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism 1939, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman takes a small girl's hand Last Line: Until the river shines. The two walk on %into the clouds, an ample white, %into a sky that has alrea Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1940, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: Fleeing from my fellow-countrymen Last Line: I can still see a small door Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1940, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: I hated %mother's tennis dress Last Line: My german clown %my wind-up doll Subject(s): Jews - Women 1945, by BERNARD S. MIKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: And that year %when the fires ceased Last Line: To stir them for an instant %from their dream of well-being Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews 1945, THE SILENCE, by BURTON D. WASSERMAN Poem Source First Line: It was a letter Last Line: Or become part of us again: %she had become %the silence Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1976, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Vision floats %over the death camps %that stink. Till the end Last Line: Magnified and sanctified %the fallen sparks, %husks, on the street corners, %in the streets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 1985 - IN A SMALL AMERICAN TOWN, by JUDITH IRWIN Poem Source First Line: Sleeping beside you, I know a distance Last Line: You draw into yourself %to cure the pain Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A glow of true messiah Last Line: For gayness to king david's son Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism 3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Was born -- the child of life Last Line: Lit up the moon by daylight Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism 3 POEMS FOR SABBATAI ZEVI ... AFTER HIS CONVERSION TO ISLAM: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sabbatai is myrrh root Last Line: King sabbatai zevi Subject(s): Conversion;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism;sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676); Judaism 5666-NEW YEAR-1905, by JACOB KLEIN Poem Text First Line: From old to new, with broadening sweep Last Line: Held by the hand of god. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Rosh Hashanah; Judaism 6-MAR, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love sitting in bars in the village Last Line: Horns orchestrated by gershwin Subject(s): Jews; Music And Musicians 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 CALENDAR: THE YEAR OF THE MESSIAH, by ELEAZAR HA-KALLIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those days: that time Subject(s): Calendars; Jews; Messiah; Mysticism - Judaism; Rites & Ceremonies; Judaism 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 CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A CHARM AGAINST LILITH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Black striga / black on black Last Line: Like a wolf she crushes Subject(s): Charms (magic);jews;lilith;mysticism - Judaism; 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 CRY FROM RUSSIA, by HERMINE SCHWED Poem Text First Line: Brothers, my brothers-you that are free Last Line: The days are long and bitter for me. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians A CURSE & ANGRY POEM AGAINST THE NATIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that do not know thee & upon the Last Line: Who made them Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism A DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of morning we drink you at dusktime Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Shoah; Judaism A GERMAN REQUIEM, by JAMES FENTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down Subject(s): Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism 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 HYMN TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, by THOMAS OLIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The god of abraham praise Last Line: Through jesus' blood! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genius of raphael! If thy wings Last Line: And proud jerusalem! Subject(s): Germany; Jews; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans; Judaism A JOURNEY AWAY, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed last night Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Jews; Judaism A LEGEND, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: To the home of the rabbi a lord in his splendor Last Line: At the home where his teacher abides. Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Jews; Legends, Arabic; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism A LETTER FROM BERLIN, by JON STALLWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, today a letter from berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer nights I sleep naked Last Line: On the day of the resurrection Subject(s): Fathers; Jews; Judaism A LITTLE HISTORY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people find out they are jews Subject(s): Jews; Judaism A MARTYR'S DEATH, by MENAHEM IBN SARUK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is now elijah's god?' Last Line: And died for them a martyr's death. Alternate Author Name(s): Menahem Ben Saruq; Menahem Ben Jacob Subject(s): Death; Elijah; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism A MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation A NUMBER BLESSING, by CHARLIE MORROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: B / a / r / u / ch Subject(s): Blessings; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism A PASSOVER HYMN FROM THE HAGGADA, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: O! Speed'ly build thy temple shrine Last Line: All humankind entwine. Subject(s): Jews; Justice; Passover; Judaism A POEM ABOUT ASHERA: HOW SHE GOES TO BULL GOD EL TO SEEK HOUSE FOR SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: So ashera sets out Last Line: The grey of your beard has surely taught you Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;mythology; Judaism A POEM FOR THE HIGH PRIEST, by MESHULLAM THE GREAT BEN KALONYMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a tent / stretched tight Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism A POOR JEW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left in a world of relatives Subject(s): Jews; Judaism A PRAYER, by V. H. FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: Leave not a veil before my eyes Last Line: A heart to understand. Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism A PRAYER, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord! Who art merciful as well as just Last Line: My sins and my contrition. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): God; Jews; Prayer; Judaism A PURIM POEM, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: You know the tale of queen esther Last Line: "the story of esther the ""star." Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; 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 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 LIFE, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For god, the living lord, my soul's athirst Last Line: Each soul of life his god must bless. Subject(s): God; Jews; Life; Praise; Judaism A SONG OF REDEMPTION, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captive of sorrow on a foreign shore Last Line: Our king will save! Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Jews; Redemption; Judaism 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 SONNET, by M. L. R. BRESLAR Poem Text First Line: Serene, translucent as yon maytime star Last Line: And feeds the heart with hopeless endless pain. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism A STORY ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup Last Line: But to live in the tragic world forever. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A SUCCOTH HYMN, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: For garnered fields and meadows cropped Last Line: In one vast, universal whole. Subject(s): Jews; Love; Judaism A TABERNACLE THOUGHT, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely grapes and apples Last Line: Of the coming years. Subject(s): Babies; Jews; Infants; 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 TALISMAN FOR VENUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: 22 47 16 41 10 35 4 Last Line: 46 15 40 9 34 3 28 Subject(s): Jews;magic;mysticism - Judaism;mythology - Classical;venus (goddess); Judaism A THOUGHT FOR THE NINTH OF AB, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: Swinging low by a garden wall Last Line: Where'er the seeds were sown! Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Jews; Temples; Judaism; Mosques 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 A VISION OF THE VOICE OF YAHVEH, by AMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is what yahveh adonai Alternate Author Name(s): Amos The Prophet Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism AARON LEVY GREEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now dimly thro' our tears we see his face Last Line: Us worthy of joining him on high Subject(s): Honor;immortality;jews;memory;rest; Judaism AARON'S BREASTPLATE, by ANNA SHIPTON Poem Text First Line: In the wondrous breastplate golden Last Line: Ever in our father's sight. Subject(s): Aaron; Bible; God; Jews; Judaism ABBA JACOB AT BAT, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young visitor [or, secular] / wearing an angels cap Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Jews; Judaism ABBA JACOB AT BAT, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young visitor [or, secular] %wearing an angels cap Last Line: He said: because they remind us %to live Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Jews ABBIENTI, by STEVEN LEVI Poem Source First Line: There is a photograph in my father's study Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ABRAHAM, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing a song of heroes Last Line: On east and west with brothered rays. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; God; Jews; Judaism ABRAHAM AND HIS GODS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the full-eyed syrian moon Last Line: By angels and by men adored. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Abraham; Islam; Jews; Judaism ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord. Variant Title(s): Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Conspiracy; Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Hyde, Lawrence. 1st Earl Of Rochester; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Jews; Politics & Government; Scott, James. Duke Of Mon ABUSE, by DAHLIA RAVIKOVITCH Poem Source First Line: In that place, %one of those places Last Line: My god, %was there abuse! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ABUTILON IN BLOOM, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cultivated inside out of the bounds Last Line: We must burst forth with orange flowers %with savage hues of our captivity Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women ACT OF BREAD, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: That happy multiplying Last Line: And gave it to the cold november morning Subject(s): Jews - Women AD, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanted: men: / millions of men are wanted at once in a big new field; Last Line: Take a job in the coming profession: / wages: death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism AD, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanted: men: %millions of men are wanted at once in a big new field; Last Line: No skill needed; %no ambition required; no brains wanted and no character allowed; Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AD ASTRA: 97, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Are there not signs that god still loveth them? Last Line: With dawning greatness of the jewish name! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism 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 ADLER, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewish king lear is getting ready Last Line: Sitting on top of the barrels, as if there were flowers-- %still sang in bitterness, still wept and Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ADOLF EICHMANN, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want no tricks in speaking of this man Last Line: Lord, forgive me, I can't keep down my hate Subject(s): Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962); Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism ADON OLAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Before thy heavenly word revealed the wonders / of thy will Last Line: And in early dawn I wake and find thee ever near Subject(s): Creation;god;jews; Judaism ADON OLAM, by GEORGE HENRY BORROW Poem Text First Line: Reigned the universe's master, ere were earthly Last Line: And therewith my body also; god's my god—I fear no one. Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Belief; Creed; Judaism ADON OLAM, by ISRAEL GOLLANCZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal lord, his praise I sing Last Line: God guarding me, I have no fear. Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism ADON OLAM, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting lord who reigned Last Line: The lord's with me; I have no fear. Subject(s): God; Jews; Judaism ADON OLAM, by DAVID AARON DE SOLA Poem Text First Line: Lord over all! Whose power the sceptre swayed Last Line: The lord with me,—no fears my soul can shake. Alternate Author Name(s): De Sola, D. A. Subject(s): Creation; God; Jews; Judaism ADON OLAM, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of the world, he reigned alone Last Line: Rest in the lord in fearless calm. Subject(s): Devotion; God; Jews; Judaism ADONAI MELECH, by SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The lord is king! The lord was king! Forever shall the lord be king! Alternate Author Name(s): Cohen, Solomon Solis Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Prayer; Yom Kippur; Judaism ADORATION, by JEANNE MARIE BOUVIER DE LA MOTTE GUYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my god, but with no love of mine Last Line: Our source, our centre, and our dwelling-place! Alternate Author Name(s): Guion, De La Mothe; Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvieres De La Mothe; Guyon Du Chesnoy Variant Title(s): By Thy Life I Live Subject(s): God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology 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 ADVICE FROM NANA, by JUDYTH HILL Poem Source First Line: Always wear your clothes like they have only been yours Last Line: I always found good men by their smell Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AFFIDAVIT AT NUREMBERG TRIALS, by HERMANN GRAEBE Poem Source First Line: During the 15 minutes Last Line: Who, as she passed close to me, %pointed to herself and said, %'23' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis AFLAME!, by MORDECAI GEBIRTIG Poem Source First Line: Aflame! Brothers! Aflame! %there may come the moment of shame Last Line: Brothers, don't stand and look around %while our town goes up in flame Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had been looking at an idol in a glass case Last Line: There is absence, unreadable Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AFTER AUSCHWITZ, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger, / as black as a hook Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Shoah; Judaism; Theology AFTER AUSCHWITZ, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger, %as black as a hook Last Line: I beg the lord not to hear Subject(s): God; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion AFTER CLAUDE LANZMANN'S SHOAH, by LILIANE RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: It was always peaceful Last Line: No one watched the mindless river %ferrying downstream kilos of powerdered bones Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER FORTY YEARS, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: They've found the body Last Line: The angel in his name %passing over the gates of the camps Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER OUR BIRTH, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: A pile of them. Not six feet Last Line: All this, the first day's gift. %endless days ahead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER POETRY, by JANE SCHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: What should we do with silence Last Line: Scribbling across the wound? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER THAT TIME, by HARRIET SUSSKIND Poem Source First Line: And it would never be over. After that Last Line: Is this the final justice? %the moment the clock can move on? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Wide, open, free lay the land Last Line: And locked the door after him Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky 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 AFTER THE HOLOCAUST, NO POETRY, by DAVID KOENIG Poem Source Last Line: Like torn and injured pages %from buried books of prayer Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER THE PINATA, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Stretch to the sky. I'll hold you tight Last Line: As each conceals its own decay Subject(s): Jews; Medicine AFTER THE WAR, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: After the war %it made your ears ache Last Line: Was surprised %to find you still alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER VIEWING SHOAH, by HARRY MAIZEL Poem Source First Line: Its been limned a thousand times Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AFTER YOM KIPPUR, by CORA WILBURN Poem Text First Line: The great white fast! The day that solemnly Last Line: Bind all of life in one vast brotherhood. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Friendship; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism AGAIN I LIVE, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again I live on the west side. Last Line: She's involved %with her own burning Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AGAIN LITVAKS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The trees bent under the burden of cool shining Last Line: The strange script--four cornered and new Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky AGAINST NOSTALGIA, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Nothing is more boring than my own life Last Line: Back when I was so young and impressionable? Subject(s): Jews - United States AGAINST PARTING, by NATAN ZACH Poem Source First Line: My tailor is against parting Last Line: (my father died meanwhile) %against parting Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War AIR VIEW OF AN INDUSTRIAL SCENE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train at the ramp, unloading people Last Line: We're watchers. But if we had bombs we'd drop them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii 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 AKIBA, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism AKIBA, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man Last Line: The signs, the journeys of the night, survive Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews ALCHEMICAL, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silence, cooked like gold, in Last Line: Fingers, insubstantial as smoke, like crests, crest of air %around -- %great, grey one. Wake- %less. Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ALL OVER REHAVIA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And all the children %have gone back to school Subject(s): Arabs; Europe; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ALL THE WORLD SHALL COME TO SERVE THEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Shall hail thee crowned king Subject(s): God;jews;praise; Judaism ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN, by SHEM TOV BEN JOSEPH FALAQUERA Poem Text First Line: Adapt thyself to time and circumstance Last Line: But if an ass thou meetest simply bray. Alternate Author Name(s): Palquera, Ben Joseph Subject(s): Jews; Men; Judaism ALMOST A LOVE POEM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my parents and your parents Last Line: What's your name? Hannale Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ALONE, by NAHUM BOMZE Poem Source First Line: Alone at midnight lying %I whispered into my ear Last Line: And when the grasses waken, %up from the ground you'll grow.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ALPHABET, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters of the jews as strict as flames Last Line: And all is rolled back in the book of days Subject(s): Jews ALPHABET LETTERS, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: In the bronx, in brooklyn and in new york city Last Line: For the card clubs and boy scout troops to which they belong Subject(s): Family Life; Jews - United States; New York City ALREADY EMBRACED BY THE ARM OF HEAVENLY SOLACE, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Then she kisses the air-born being %and dies! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ALTHOUGH TORMENTED AND ILL-TREATED, by KALONYMUS BEN JUDAH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Kalonymus The Younge Subject(s): Jews; God ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 1. TWO ROOMS, by DIANE GARDEN Poem Source First Line: I can still see nanny bending Last Line: And laughter without forgetting %the presence of sorrow Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ALWAYS JOY AND SORROW: 2. ONE-EYED JOKER, by DIANE GARDEN Poem Source First Line: After pappy died, nanny followed Last Line: Nanny would life her teacup %and tell me a story Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AMSTERDAM POEM, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All-beethoven night at the concertgebouw Last Line: The city, its citizens, I know nothing about. %tomorrow klm can fly us out Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AN EPITAPH, by BEN JACOB Poem Text First Line: Here lies nachshon, man of great renown Last Line: Now he is gone, he gets a stone instead. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism AN INVOCATION, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, harp of judah! Wake again! Last Line: And lend its sweetness to my dreams! Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Judah (bible); Liberty; Judaism AN ORIENTAL MAIDEN, by J. O. JENKYNS Poem Text First Line: Thou fairest one of judah's daughters Last Line: And bid me not away Subject(s): Hearts; Jews; Jews - Women; Love; Judaism ANALFABETA, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I have a friend whose great-grandfather learned to read Last Line: If so, was it climbing or descending? %did it disappear or did it stay? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANCESTOR, by FRANCES RODMAN Poem Source First Line: Susan was the wild one Last Line: Stares back with eyes like mine Subject(s): Jews - Women AND ALWAYS WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And always when the sun goes down Last Line: And no grave was allotted them Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 AND HAVE THERE BEEN MANY MORE DAYS ALLOTTED?, by JACOB (JACK) GORDON Poem Source First Line: And have there been many more days allotted? Last Line: In the final hour - %make strong my soul! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AND NOTHING MOVED, by RICHARD C. RAYMOND Poem Source First Line: I know I saw those things Last Line: And into screaming ducts and crannies %sterile horror ooze for a thousand years? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AND THE HEAVENS SHALL YIELD THEIR DEW, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that art the trust, the strength Last Line: "and the heavens shall yield their dew!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Faith; God; Heaven; Jews; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Judaism AND THE SORROW, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: Here! Any to be my sons so a scream spears me Last Line: What must a jew train so for not sports? Subject(s): Jews; Olympic Games; Terrorism AND THEN YOU WERE PEELING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our luggage unopened %at the door Subject(s): Arabs; Hearts; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AND THERE WREE PITS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: And take them out by hand %and lay them gently down Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AND YOU ON MY BIRTHDAY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Prayer %on a grain of rice Subject(s): Arabs; Birthdays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AND ZION BE THE GLORY YET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o tribe of ancestry, be dumb, thy parchment roll" Last Line: And zion be the glory yet and wonder of the earth Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry;jews;zionism; Judaism ANGEL, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Color recomposes / the liquid hanged men Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism ANI MAAMIN, SELS, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: Behold, god of abraham, god of mercy Last Line: I wait daily for his coming, I believe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNA, by MARILYN KALLET Poem Source First Line: No one asked anna for stories of russia Last Line: A mother could love her only daughter Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ANNA'S DREAM, by NANCY SHIFFRIN Poem Source First Line: Ovens. Women in line waiting for showers Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNA, MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, by MERILEE KAUFMAN Poem Source First Line: A left eye that squints Last Line: So when can I do it again? Subject(s): Jews - Women ANNIVERSARY POEM, by DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN Poem Source First Line: The anniversary poem is a glass roofed Last Line: That question that every human %must ask himself %before he call call himself human Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Shoah; Judaism ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 1, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the burnt flesh is finally at rest Last Line: And wicks turn down to darkness in the madman's eyes Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 2, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My suit is hairy, my carpet smells of death Last Line: While the room fills with the zyklon b I cough Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 3, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On picadilly underground I fall asleep Last Line: But sratches web the ceiling of a train Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 4, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around staring buildings the pale flowers grow Last Line: Death's botanical gardens can flower again Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 5, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man eating his dressing in the hospital Last Line: They crowd out peace from executioners' sleep Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 6, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forty thousand bald men drowning in a stream Last Line: Which has not cared about or guessed its tortured scope Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ANNOTATIONS OF AUSCHWITZ: 7, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: London is full of chickens on electric spits Last Line: And all poultry eaters are psychopaths Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNUNICATION, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't be dismayed, woman, by my fierce form Last Line: This is your winged seed. Woman, rejoice Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANNUS MIRABILIS 1989, by ELAINE FEINSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Ten years ago, beneath the hotel astoria Last Line: I pondered at the resilience of an old monster Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANOTHER BOOK ON THE HOLOCAUST, by JOEL R. SOLONCHE Poem Source First Line: Is it the duty Last Line: How can they, the living proof, %believe we don't believe? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANOTHER SELECTION, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: Mengele looked %while the kommandment Last Line: It passed the test Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANSWERING MACHINE MESSAGE, by SARI FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Micki, the message on your new machine Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANTI-SEMITIC DEMONSTRATION, by GAIL NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: There are hundreds of people in the street Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ANTONIO'S NIGHT, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: I whisper %'yo soy marrano' Last Line: Back in new mexico %where I pick peaches %and raise pigs Subject(s): Jews - Women ANYUTA, by ANNE COREY Poem Source First Line: My grandmother anyuta %the woman I am named for Last Line: I hear anyuta's screams. %her screams Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women 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 APRIL, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: It is april %night Last Line: And catches his breath Subject(s): Jews - Women ARAB AND JEW IN ALASKA, by GREGORY ORFALEA Poem Source First Line: Two sons of sem, called by an unknown Last Line: And alone. Someday, again, %home Subject(s): Alaska; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews ARCHIVE FILM MATERIAL, by RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: At first it seemed a swaying field of flowers Last Line: Unloaded from the cattle trucks at auschwitz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ARK, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We all know Last Line: We all know Subject(s): Arks; Noah (bible); Rites & Ceremonies; Jews; Women's Rights ARMY OF TRUTH, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Words? Those sounds the world despises Last Line: Raze them to the ground with truth! Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews ARTICLE OF FAITH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: David: coming home from a film today, my brain Last Line: I am writing my way west to celebrate some old lies with you Subject(s): Jews - United States AS JACOB SERVED FOR RACHEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas the love that lightened service! Last Line: "twas love that lightened service, / the old, old story sweet" Subject(s): Jacob (bible);jews; Judaism AS THE STARS AND THE SANDS, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hills and the valleys are flooded with moonlight Last Line: S. Frug. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Creation; Jews; Judaism ASCENSIONS, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: You, marc chagall, should be able to tell us Last Line: Not even a marker saying: %here the kikes %en-masse ascended Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Men ASH ON THE SUN, by CHAIM PLOTKIN Poem Source First Line: The numbers on her arm - %nails of the beast! Last Line: She bears grudges, resents her rescuer %the miracle . . . Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ASK THE MOTHER OF THE GROOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women ASPARAGUS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw the asparagus stand up in one bunch Last Line: Have to watch where we're going or simply make do Subject(s): Arabs; Asparagus; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Vegetables ASPEN OKTOBERFEST, by REG SANER Poem Source First Line: Through an amber dazzle of aspen Last Line: And closes. And creekwater flashes, leaping down off the peaks, %making up new lives as it runs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ASSEMBLING THE DEAD AT DACHAU, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: This is where they begin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ASSUMPTION OF MIRIAM FROM THE STREET IN THE WINTER OF 1942, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Snowflakes were teeming down Last Line: Hosanna %lifted %right to the bottom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ASSURANCES, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The soda cans you bag in bins Last Line: This will calm the others Subject(s): Jews - United States AT A MASS GRAVE, by M. TRUMAN COOPER Poem Source First Line: We should try not to look away Last Line: Their hands or not, we will feel %their fingers wedged between our own Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT BABI YAR, by JO NELSON Poem Source First Line: They lay them to sleep %by the score in the fatal gorge Last Line: It was part of hitler's jewish solution Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT BIRKENAU, by T. W. PERKINS Poem Source First Line: Today, I have said %kaddish Last Line: What we saw here %today Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT DAVID'S FEET, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I gaze at you from ankle height Last Line: Or posing pensive without clothes Subject(s): Jews; Medicine AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH Poem Text First Line: Across the land their long lines pass Last Line: A land to which all peoples turn. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AT LAST, by ADELAIDE G. WATERS Poem Text First Line: The rabbi levi let his thoughts be cast Last Line: So, smiling, he passed out into the light. Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Memory; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism AT SAMARIA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed the hill where from samaria's crown Last Line: And herod but the shadow of a name! Subject(s): Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jews; Judaism AT SINAI, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: Down from the mist-clad mountain moses came Last Line: Whate'er the lord hath bidden, shall we do! Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Ten Commandments; Judaism AT THE GATE, by NATHAN FREDERICK SPIELVOGEL Poem Text First Line: They drive me out of my country Last Line: They'll be led by the alien jew. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM, by OLGA CABRAL Poem Source First Line: Only what I bring to this room will exist Subject(s): Art And Artists; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AT THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For more than five thousand years Last Line: May the taste of honey linger %under the bitterest tongue Subject(s): Jews AT THE NEW MOON: ROSH HODESH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a two day holiday, the most sacred stretches Last Line: Breast, opening, pool, the source Subject(s): Prayer; Jews; Moon AT YOUR TABLE, VIENNA V, 1957, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: You serve me on plates marked with my grandmother's monogram Last Line: You with your passion for music, crying as the bow %shuddersover tight dried gut Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet perchance 'tis beneficial Last Line: "what there is of public taste." Subject(s): Animals; Jews; Judaism ATTENTION OF HYMEN, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The atheist bride is dressed in blue Subject(s): Marriage; Jews; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Judaism AUNT IRIS' WEDDING, by SAUCI S. CHURCHILL Poem Source First Line: Except for just a moment Last Line: Smothered the flames against her breast Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women AUSCHWITZ, by NICHOLAS RINALDI Poem Source First Line: Lucky the ones who were sick and in pain Last Line: The ground opened up: they could fall and fall %and never be found Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ #1, by ALFRED VAN LOEN Poem Source First Line: With gradual rhythm snowflakes Last Line: After nearly two thousand years %of christianity Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ #5, DEVILISH TORTURES INVENTED BY HUMANS, by ALFRED VAN LOEN Poem Source First Line: A man torn from his home Last Line: And the cold of the night %hurried his starvation Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ #6, by ALFRED VAN LOEN Poem Source First Line: Tortured, sick, and hungry Last Line: To the same stake %and the flames leaped with the laughter %of the nazis Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ FROM COLOMBO, by ANNE RANASINGHE Poem Source First Line: Colombo. March. The city white fire Last Line: That stirs but slightly the ancient dust Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ NOCTURNE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The jew at 1 am moves in near silence Last Line: Only the ghost viols whispering the yellow gas %of mozart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ REPORTAZ, by ALAN LUPACK Poem Source First Line: Today we went to auschwitz. As we approached it, I could feel a Last Line: Were escaping across the fiery river surrounding hell Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ, 1987, by ADAM ZYCH Poem Source First Line: And nobody shouts halt Last Line: With its resonant name: %auschwitz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: FIRST, UNDRESS, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: One morning at about 4 a.M., while the rest of the lager slept, filip Last Line: Speaking to his subordinates: 'you see?' aumeyer said. 'you see? %that's the way to do it!' Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: GEOLOGY, by HARVEY MUDD Poem Source First Line: At auschwitz-birkenau Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: LIKE BUTTERFLIES, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: The auschwitz 'angel of death,' josef mengele Last Line: Human eyes of every color %mounted on the wall like butterflies Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mengele, Josef (1911-1979) AUSCHWITZ: UNFORGETTABLE, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: A man who, in his youth in poland Last Line: Of setting these trained dogs on prisoners; %he cannot forget the third signal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: UNFORGETTABLE II, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: Another man Last Line: This way, please, ladies, gentlemen...' %these things he once saw, he says, he can never forget Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUTO DA FE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Can a dog write poetry? Yehuda asked Last Line: Yes, if he is a jewish dog Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Poetry And Poets AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the ghetto streets where a jewboy Last Line: Delighting in the sobbed oriental note. Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Jews; Relatives; Judaism AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by DAN PAGIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I died with the first blow and was buried Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I died with the first blow and was buried Last Line: And even this is only half a revenge Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUTUMN SONGS, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jews, my brothers, will they understand me? Last Line: My song, my melancholy song. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Melancholy; Poetry & Poets; Judaism; Dejection 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 B'NAI B'RITH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Adown the vista of the long ago Last Line: And with its bloom and fragrance fill the earth! Variant Title(s): I.o.b.b. Poem: 57th Anniversary Subject(s): Anniversaries; Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; B'nai Brith; Judaism B'NAI BRITH, by ROSALIE IDA BLUN STRAUS Poem Text First Line: Pause, o ye winds of heaven, pause in your Last Line: Light! Light! For the night-wrapt world—yea, spread it to the poles. Alternate Author Name(s): Straus, Mrs. Isidor Subject(s): Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; B'nai Brith; Judaism B'NOT SARAH, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: At the b'not sarah synagogue Last Line: Earthward %from the highest sephira Subject(s): Jews - Women BABI YAR, by CAROLE GLASSER LANGILLE Poem Source First Line: They say the woman with the black hair Last Line: Hugging her shadow. %what substance do we have? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABI YAR, by LEV OZEROV Poem Source First Line: I have come to you, babi yar Last Line: Don't forget! %do not forgive! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABI YAR, by ASHER TORREN Poem Source First Line: Next year Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABI-YAR, by SHIKE DRIZ Poem Source First Line: I'd have picked the right beam for a crib to be swung on Last Line: Help me, mothers, help me %rock babi - yar to rest! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BABIES, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Nowadays they wear Last Line: And make them stay put; always %all over the back of my mind Subject(s): Jews - Women BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: No monument stands over babii yar Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Shoah; Judaism BABII YAR, by YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH YEVTUSHENKO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No monument stands over babii yar Last Line: I am a true russian! Alternate Author Name(s): Evtushenko, Evgeni Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Russia - Pogroms BABYLON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou glory of a thousand kings Last Line: Hurled headlong from thy lofty throne- / forgotten and forlorn! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;jews;war; Judaism BABYLONIAN TALMUD, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Jews BACK, MY SOUL, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back my soul, into thy nest Last Line: Be thou the courtier. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Soul; Paradise; Judaism BALLAD OF ITZIK WITTENBERG, by SHMERKE KATCHERGINSKY Poem Source First Line: The enemy hearkens: a beast in the darkness Last Line: Now you be my first - in - command! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BALLADE OF BEAUTIES, by ALEXANDER+(2) SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Miss israel nineteen-sixty-eight is new Last Line: Miss warsaw ghetto nineteen-forty-two Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BALTHUS, THE WINDOW, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I've heard this one before Last Line: Like brushstrokes in the air Subject(s): Jews - United States; Windows 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 BAR MITZVAH, by ISAAC GOLDEMBERG Poem Source First Line: My father comes to see me on friday night Last Line: My old, gray father celebrating this rite curled up like a fetus Subject(s): Bar And Bat Mitzvahs; Jews BAR TALKING, by GAYLE SPANIER RAWLINGS Poem Source First Line: Long ago - one time, many times Last Line: Left over from our %forgotten dreams Subject(s): Jews - Women BARK, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: How can you thank a tree? Last Line: With every dying cell Subject(s): Jews; Medicine BARONESS DE ROTHSCHILD, by EMILY MARION HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Though life may fade, love never dies Last Line: Who loved her god; whose god is love. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Immortality; Jews; Love; Dead, The; Judaism BARREN MARRIAGE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Two survivors of the holocaust Last Line: Without offending anyone's god; %and always they fall asleephoping, hoping Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BASEBALL CAP, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The days are slower, full of empty hours Last Line: The slick radiation scars. %he seldom takes it off Subject(s): Jews; Medicine BASHERT, SELS., by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BATTENBERG LACE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Hoping to erase creases Last Line: On god's freshly cleaned and pressed %battenberg-lace sky Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BE HAPPY, O GROOM, by ABRAHAM BEN HALFON Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BE HAPPY, O GROOM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BE NOT LIKE SERVANTS BASELY BRED, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Antigonus of socho said Last Line: Is better than all life in this. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Clergy; Jacob (bible); Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism BE SEEING YOU, by VASKO POPA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the third evening round Last Line: We know what we mean Alternate Author Name(s): Popa, Vasco Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEATINGS, by WILL WELLS Poem Source First Line: She slings her rugs faithfully Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To measure a fence Subject(s): Arabs; Depression, Mental; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine BEDECKEN, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Whose smile is that? Last Line: He puts the veil down over her face Subject(s): Jews - Women BEFORE, by LEYB KVITKO Poem Source First Line: We hove up walls for work and home Last Line: Death followed, flung his arms around us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEFORE BATTLE, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have toiled, o lord, with our blood and might Last Line: Our faith in thee. Subject(s): God; Jews; Pain; Praise; Judaism; Suffering; Misery BEFORE NIGHT, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: In rows, in battalions, they shuffle, they crowd Last Line: How many the souls that have merged in my own Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 BEFORE THE DEBATE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Before the debate each man checks his watch Last Line: Over the details of our new compromise Subject(s): Jews - United States BEGGAR IN THE SUBWAY, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The subway beggar crouches against the token booth Last Line: To look for sabbath inside the aquarium windows %of a public shelter Subject(s): Jews - Women BEING CHILDREN, by MARILYNN CAROLE GLICK TALAL Poem Source First Line: That year each day's paper Last Line: The small swellings on our ribs %turned them away Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEING MODERN IN JERUSALEM, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: Gisela, I went to the well Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BELONGING, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: My father belonged %first to his native place Last Line: Where he belonged %the most Subject(s): Jews - Women BELOVED OF THE HEART, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BELSEN, DAY OF LIBERATION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her parents and her dolls destroyed Last Line: They were so beautiful %and they were not afraid Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii BELSHAZZAR, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belshazzar is king! Belshazzar is lord! Last Line: And a mede's on the throne of belshazzar the king. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Praise; Judaism BEN KARSHOOK'S WISDOM, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would a man 'scape the rod?' Last Line: And struck the simple, solemn. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism BEN-AMMI AND THE FAIRIES; A RABBINCAL TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time a stranger came Last Line: The blessed art of doing good! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism BENJAMIN ARTOM, by RE HENRY Poem Text First Line: With mournful pomp they bore him to the grave Last Line: He loved them—let them comfort her who mourns him most! Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement BENNY, by FRAN ADLER Poem Source First Line: For benjamin ben yakov, and his father Last Line: Like a flash flood rushing in %you fill cisterns underground Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BERGEN-BELSEN 1945, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The children ate whatever we gave them Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BERLIN: 1933-1993, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: In berlin, grey city of my birth Last Line: To which I vow never to return Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEST IN THE BUSINESS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Each restive night Last Line: Corky' schwartz, escape artist par excellence Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BETA ISRAEL, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Isolate sepia people dying slowly Last Line: To whom will you teach your jewish ways, %strangers as you are even to your own kin? Subject(s): Jews - Women BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND THE SECOND CATARACT, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Row close. This karnak temple's where Last Line: Eureka: 'nefertiti sucks' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine BETWEEN THE LINES, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Later, back in my cell, back in the thick stench Last Line: To the killer who cracks my joints: 'je te comprends, mon ami...' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews BETWEEN TWO STOOLS, by JOHN HEATH Poem Text First Line: Ned will not keep the jewish sabbath, not he Last Line: He halts betwixt them both and so keeps neither. Subject(s): Churches; Jews; Religious Freedom; Cathedrals; Judaism BEZALEL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bezalel, filled with wisdom to design Last Line: A dying rabble in a wilderness. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Jews; Judaism BIBLE STUDENTS IN THE SUKKAH, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: What does it matter Last Line: And one always had a story, %and one always said, be serious Subject(s): Jews - Women BIRD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sang heinrich, I would fly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BIRD NAMED ISIDORE, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: There is a story about a hummingbird named isidore Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BIRDSONG & SUN POEM FOR WINTER, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: A sparrow hops in the lilac on the arab side of our house Last Line: There are also the motionless junipers Subject(s): Jews - Women BIT OF BREAD, by CHAIEH LEDIK Poem Source First Line: Yellow patch across my back; %on my shoulder an empty pack Last Line: Through the gloom to a bit of bread %(sung in a camp near bremen) Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BITTER RIDDLES OF HISTORY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Why does memory forget itself so easily Last Line: Who or what will thrust a star of david through its heart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BLACK INK BLACK PAINT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Whiter %and more strange Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Paintings And Painters; Palestine BLACKNESS OF JEWS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Is the white side of darkness Last Line: Children from ash and anger, %from blind and crippled love Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BLESSED ART THOU, NO-ONE, by MYRA SKLAREW Poem Source First Line: If I reach after you Last Line: So that you may cross %a border into your own life Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BLESSED BE THE EVENING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO RELEASES ME FROM THIS RESPONSIBILITY', by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The girl's over-rehearsed. Her rushed rendition of the prayers Last Line: And that shamed sneer on your lip: give it a name. Give it your own Subject(s): Jews - United States BLESSING ON YOUR HEAD, HAND, AND FOOT, by NANCY BERG Poem Source First Line: Grandma and grandpa %get lost at ellis island Last Line: Filter out through the window screen %and perch on the branch of a tree Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BLESSING THE LIGHTS, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silver candlesticks that beam Last Line: "shining, beaming, god, for thee." Subject(s): Candles; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday BLOOD V. BULLION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "well then, it now appears you need my help" Last Line: Hath a dog money?'' blood's response is-'nay!' Subject(s): Jews;jews - Persecution;russia;tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism;soviet Union;russians BLUE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To witness, to %enter this Last Line: Bottomless sky, children %rising wreathed %to your blue lips Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BLUE GRASS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The broad felds of kentucky Last Line: By the resounding laughter of black children Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky BLUE PARAKEET, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: They knew what was coming to radom, to all the jews Last Line: I held her very gently, the way a child would hold %a tiny bird in her hands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOGHOS SARKISSIAN,... REMEMBERS THE TURKISH ATROCITIES, 1905, by LEO HAMALIAN Poem Source First Line: Doors ripped off houses Last Line: We confront it. %it consumes us. %it consumes us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOILED WINE, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: My brother's father-in-law kept boiled wine Last Line: I serve not wine but coffee to my guests, and pray %my children not be taken for my sins Subject(s): Jews - Women BOOK, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I held it in my hands while he told the story Last Line: How beautiful it was until I knew Subject(s): Books; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOK BURNER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Yesterday afternoon, %at loose ends and without suitable alternatives Last Line: Heaved it into the sun's sputtering ash heap, %not even stopping to watch it ignite Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOK OF FORMATION: 10 COUNTINGS, WITH COMMENTAIRES, SELS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Call it a mist of light and sound of a faint idea of interposition of being Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS, by LEO HABER Poem Source First Line: The event called holocaust was not made for poetry Last Line: Of explanations, for the murder of little children Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOK OF THE SAYINGS OF THE LORD, SELS., by JACOB FRANK Poem Source First Line: It is in your ancient books that there is an island hidden in the sea Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Last Line: Though they killed him in the camp they sent him to, %he will walk in as you're sitting down to a me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOOTS/LAARZEN, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: A boot is a type of shoe Last Line: Boots/laarzen: %two words, %two worlds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 BOTH YOUR MOTHERS, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Under a little torah Last Line: When you say %I am Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BOW OF BEAUTY, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bow of beauty, arching o'er us, tinted with unearthly dyes Last Line: Love's and mercy's light assuming, like the rainbow it doth shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Cupid; Heaven; Jews; Love; Eros; Paradise; Judaism BOY OF THE GHETTO, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He goes out with his dreams Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Jews BRAIDING MY DAUGHTER'S HAIR, by MARCY SHEINER Poem Source First Line: This is what we waited for Last Line: My fingers fly, over and through, %over and through Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BRAIDS, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: Friday morning %I braid my hair Last Line: Here is a challah from tels %taste it Subject(s): Jews - Women BRAMBLE, by PERETZ KAMINSKY Poem Source First Line: I add my silence Last Line: The fires of auschwitz rise from the thorns Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: "to discover the country of our waking Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons & Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Shoah; Judaism BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: To discover the country our waking %breaking open Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BRIAR SHOOTS, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Briar shoots, briar shoots Last Line: Not the roaring lion of law Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews BRIDE'S SONG AGAINST DEMONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: High on a pillow sits with bandaged hands & feet her double sits beside her Last Line: The custom of the girls Subject(s): Brides;jews - Women;mysticism - Judaism BRIDGE REVERBERATES EACH STEP WE TAKE, by JACOB (JACK) GORDON Poem Source First Line: The bridge reverberates each step we take Last Line: Caress, oh caress me . . . %it's dark, it's late Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH A HERO, NAME UNKNOWN, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: It could have been a matter of modesty Last Line: Maybe it was simple recklessness Subject(s): Heroism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BRINGING KLAUS BARBIE TO TRIAL, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: How many times must we return Last Line: Can't we sentence it to silence once and forever? Subject(s): Barbie, Klaus (1913-1991); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BRIS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The strap from the pentax circles allen's forearm Last Line: We squint to hide the raw flesh of our eyes Subject(s): Jews - United States BROOCH, by OLGA DRUCKER Poem Source First Line: White bone-rose, silver thorns Last Line: Before she too was dragged away %leaving us %our legacy? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BROTHERLY LOVE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi judah, so the scribes relate Last Line: "loveth his brother as he loves himself." Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Love; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism BRUSHING, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Your arrival was always with cashews Last Line: I dream about somebody %brushing and combing us Subject(s): Jews - Women BUBBIE, MOMMY, WEIGHT WATCHERS AND ME, by BARBARA NOREEN DINNERSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The lady up front was rosalie, she used to be fat, feh Last Line: I am a strong proud jewish woman from pesant stock Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women BUCHENWALD: 1, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: Saturday morning, playing hide-and-seek Last Line: We are the children of heartbreak' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 2, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: Hatless, we played hide-and-seek Last Line: Grief in the pitch of the voice Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 3, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: At the kitchen table I hear stories Last Line: By the rivers of babylon o lay down and wept Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 4, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: Human beings reduce to a handful of ashes Last Line: Become mountains of ashes at buchenwald Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUCHENWALD: 5, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: It is april, I walk around, I carry a rifle Last Line: It was nothing I didn't expect Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BULGE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Alas, it's back. The tugging at the waist Last Line: There's simply the decision how and when Subject(s): Jews; Medicine BUNA, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Torn feet and cursed earth Last Line: With what kind of face would we confront each other? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BURIAL OF MOSES, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By nebo's lonely mountain Last Line: Of him he loved so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BURNING OF THE BOOKS, by LOTTE KRAMER Poem Source First Line: When the regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge Last Line: Treating me like a liar! I command you: %burn me! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BURNT, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY Poem Source First Line: Burdened with family feelings, I went Last Line: And quietly repeating: %burnt Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BURNT PEARLS, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: It is not just because my words quiver Last Line: Are these gray pearls %smoldering in the ash Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BURYING CARNATIONS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Windy days in missouri, rosemary Last Line: Today she is looking for flowers Subject(s): Jews - United States BUSINESS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The old trails run far and wide Last Line: Aha! I said right away that it'll be all right.' Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky BUSINESS IN GERMANY, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: At the airport hotel my room is tiny Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUT, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin filched 'nigra sum sed formosa' Last Line: That in this case was translated from the jews Subject(s): Jews; Teaching And Teachers BUT LOOK, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But look %but look Last Line: A straight candle %into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BUT WHO SHALL SEE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: But who shall see the glorious day Last Line: Some long-lost exile home! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Zionism; Judaism; Theology BUTTERFLY, by PAVEL FRIEDMANN Poem Source First Line: He was the last. Truly the last Last Line: There are no butterflies, here, in the ghetto Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON WE SAT DOWN AND WEPT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat down and wept by the waters Last Line: With the voice of the spoiler by me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Psalm 137 Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Sorrow; Sadness; 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 BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING (3 - 15), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to my grandfather's to say good-bye Last Line: For it is not easy to be a jew or, perhaps, a man - %doomed by his ignorance to stumble and blunder Subject(s): Jews BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING: 15, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to my grandfather's to say good-bye Last Line: Doomed by his ignorance to stumble and blunder Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Farewell CACTUS, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pot itself was half the story Last Line: It is always of importance to see %the things aesthetical' Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 CALAMITY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Once, on a hot summer's day Last Line: The menfolk gathered %and went to the city Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky CALIFORNIA SISTER, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The thing about you and me Last Line: Some day we'll hold each other, woman friend %if the world survives Subject(s): Jews - Women CAMP IN THE PRUSSIAN FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside the prisoners to the road Last Line: The star laughs from its rotting shroud %of flesh. O star o f men! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii CAMP SONG NEWLY HEARD, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Once there was elzunia Last Line: Because she died alaone, %because she was elzunia Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CAMPO DEI FIORI, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In rome, on campo dei fiori Last Line: Rage will kindle at a poet's word Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CANTOR'S DREAM BEFORE THE DAYS OF AWE, by MARTIN ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: In white robes I'm joined by a Last Line: Collapsing in the unwavering %blast of the shofa's one call Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CARAVAN OF YAMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women CARETAKER, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I've watched tendrils prod the potted clay Last Line: We'll both pretend fresh tendrils prod the loam Subject(s): Jews; Medicine CAROLYN'S NEIGHBOR, by DEBORAH S. SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Rhoda bok %who survived treblinka, said to us Last Line: Only of the cold; of always, %always %still shaking with it Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CARTLOAD OF SHOES, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: The wheels hurry onward, onward Last Line: They drive us to berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CATTLE TRAIN TO MAGDEBURG, by JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: She still remembers %the box cars Last Line: And always a train of box cars %bleached to baltic gray Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CH'VIL SCHREIBEN A POEM AUF YIDDISH, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I want to write a poem in yiddish Last Line: Not quite consumed, not even %by the heat of my yiddish poem Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Poetry And Poets; Yiddish CHAIRS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: Actually it is the history of the furniture that matters Last Line: Not to take a seat Subject(s): Furniture; Jews; Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation CHANT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE ON EARTH, by LESLIE WOOLF HEDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not to forget nor to ever forget so long as you live Last Line: For to be called a man would be an insult Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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, by CECILIA GERSON Poem Text First Line: The hand of time moves o'er the dial Last Line: That leap to glory and to god! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews; Slavery; Judaism; Serfs CHANUKAH, by MARION HARTOG Poem Text First Line: Down-trodden 'neath the syrian heel Last Line: And live for evermore. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Temples; Historians; Shoah; Judaism; Mosques CHANUKAH, by LOUIS STERN Poem Text First Line: We welcome thee joyfully, glorious night Last Line: Right and truth forever. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Jews; Judaism CHANUKAH HYMN, by ADOLPH HUEBSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, the true that follow thee Last Line: Thy command we follow will. Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews; Victory; Belief; Creed; Judaism CHANUKAH IN RUSSIA, 1905, by E. L. LEVETUS Poem Text First Line: Set high the light where all may see Last Line: That like our sires we shall be free. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Holocaust, Jewish - Liberation; Jews; 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 CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: A single light is kindled and it glows Last Line: And breathes new hope into his soul. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Judaism CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I kindled my eight little candles Last Line: A heavenly-glorious light. Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Courage; Fasts & Feasts; Freedom; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Judaism CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: The blessings are chanted Last Line: I feel blessed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHARTREUSE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the french alps near grenoble the carthusian monks Last Line: The airport falls, if it isn't the life we expected, something close Subject(s): Arabs; Herbs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins 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 CHICAGO SCENE (1952, 1969), by MARTIN ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: Dawn in my mind Last Line: On this dawn I now remember %what a generation's buried Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILD SURVIVORS' SEDER, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Today, once again Last Line: We're here, we're alive, %we're together Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDHOOD, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Your milk was already poisoned Last Line: So they could take it out on the jews %at the synagogue exit Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDHOOD, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Your milk was already poisoned Last Line: To let off steam with the jews %by the synagogue door Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDHOOD MEMORY, by IRENE GRIMBERG Poem Source First Line: The place was poland warsaw Last Line: I wish that I could wear one Subject(s): Jews - Women CHILDREN, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not think we can save them Last Line: To keep them safe in my own body, %and knew I would again. Men Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: These are the names of the children Last Line: Attended the child like two mothers Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky CHILDREN 2, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: There %were Last Line: Walked with their mothers %to the gas Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by NAUM KORZHAVIN Poem Source First Line: Men tortured children %cleverly. Deliberately. Efficiently Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN OF NIGHT, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: We live in this world Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN OF TEREZIN, by STANLEY COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: They smelled like grandfathers Last Line: Have many arms, %and that corpses are green %as grass Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: A tree, philosophizes sam Last Line: The other was the young david, %dorothy's son Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky CHILDREN'S DREAMS AT THERESIENSTADT, by MARGARET DELGUERICO Poem Source First Line: Esther, age eight, sketched %her family at the dining room table Last Line: Celebrating purim %with you, my friends Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHILDREN'S RAIN SONGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O the rain drop drop drop Last Line: Whatever there is to eat Subject(s): Drought;jews;mysticism - Judaism;rain; Judaism CHORUS OF THE DEAD, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We from the black sun of fear Last Line: Into our hidden god Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHORUS OF THE STARS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We stars, we stars Last Line: Then, o blind one, you will see again! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CHOSEN PEOPLE, by WILLIAM NORMAN EWER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How odd %of god Last Line: To choose %the jews Alternate Author Name(s): Ewer, W. N. Subject(s): Jews CHRISTIAN AND JEW; A DIALOGUE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh happy, happy land! Last Line: Let life begin.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christianity; Jews; Judaism CHRISTMAS EVE, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Who can't remember Last Line: The poor jews will complain' Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews CITY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The community started to grow Last Line: Bordered by thick green woods Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky CITY CHILDREN AT A SUMMER CAMP. SLONIM, 1936, by KIRTLAND SNYDER Poem Source First Line: The naked girls %lift their arms Last Line: No fruit to come, %ever, %from their plump vulvas Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CITY LEVITATES, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm back %in the unmade bed Subject(s): Arabs; Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine CLIMB UP, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: When he bought the old tompkins place Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky CLOCK IN THE OLD JEWISH GHETTO, by VITEZSLAV NEZVAL Poem Source First Line: While time is running away on prikopy street Last Line: If death surprised me I would die a six-year-old boy Subject(s): Jews; Time CLOUDED SKY, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: The moon hangs on a clouded sky Last Line: I roll myself a cigarette, %slowly, carefully. I live Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews COME NOT, O LORD!, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not, o lord! In the dread robe of splendour Last Line: Oh! Turn upon us the mild light of thy love! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology COME, LET US CONFOUND THEIR LANGUAGE, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: The jews of fairfax %are darker this year Last Line: And never knowing exact %when to pack Subject(s): Jews COME, MY BELOVED, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: Come, my beloved, to meet the bride Last Line: With joy receive the sabbath bride. Subject(s): Brides; Jews; Love - Marital; Sabbath; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Sunday COMET GHAZAL, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Amidst our troubles, a sudden blessing Last Line: Our own last-minute plummet in the evening sky Variant Title(s): Ghazal: Come Subject(s): Comets; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews COMING DOWN FROM HER FATHER'S HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women COMING HOME, by EVA REISMAN Poem Source First Line: I dreamed that you appeared at my side Last Line: And the whole universe will sing Subject(s): Jews - Women COMPANIONS, by MICHELLE BENDER Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the park Last Line: And the sundial %gathers shadows Subject(s): Jews - Women CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Variant Title(s): The Right To Life Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Shoah; Judaism; Virgin Mary CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO LIFE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I rounded the corner - noiselessly - as if wide unseeable Last Line: Rather the day is hot and the nights temperate %as in may in spain in andalusia Variant Title(s): The Right To Lif Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women - Bible CONCILIATORY LETTER TO MORGAN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Enclosed is the crushed ice I have promised you Last Line: Slowly pushing it all back into the earth where it belongs? Subject(s): Jews - United States CONCRETE POEM: YHVH GREAT GOD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism CONFESSION, by JUDITH HEINEMAN Poem Source First Line: I have gone to the genealogy room Last Line: Not that I could do %anything differently Subject(s): Jews - Women CONFESSION TO MOTHER SARAH, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: You were luckier than I Last Line: Stand on my own mt. Moriah %about to join you Subject(s): Jews - Women CONFIDENCE, by MAX SIMON NORDAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the state to the prelate your pay we will withhold Last Line: And free 'twill be given—since rich jews do here abound. Subject(s): Jews; Wealth; Judaism; Riches; Fortunes CONFLICT, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: In the distance black clouds Last Line: Finally claims us Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape CONSECRATION HYMN, by RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883) Poem Text First Line: Father of life and light and power Last Line: "for truth and freedom, god and right." Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE, by PETER HEYLYN Poem Text First Line: If thou art merry, here are airs Last Line: First in the book, and next in thee. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Religious Education; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools CONTINUING, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Each one had defenses, they said Last Line: To say how lonely it is here %on earth %and how the nights are cold Subject(s): Jews - Women CONTRACT, by SHERRY REITER Poem Source First Line: He lay on the hospital bed Last Line: You're with me, I replied Subject(s): Jews - Women CONVERSATION AS MY TUMOR ADVANCES, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Turning towards the voice that he rumbles at me Last Line: Sounds that cry their prayer for understanding- %just crackle in deaf ears Subject(s): Jews; Medicine CONVERSATIONS WITH DR. M, by RACHEL LODEEN Poem Source First Line: They say it is you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CORSET, by MYRA SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The corset of my bubbe annie %held her to the feminine Last Line: When I was grown I wanted fat like hers %rushing over me as unrestrained as water Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women COULD WE HAVE BEEN HER?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Could we have been her Last Line: On a night of glittering bones? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Terror COUNTING BACKWARDS, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: You & your sisters said I has the head of thirty year old Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews COUNTING SHEEP BY NIGHT, by LOIS MATHIEU Poem Source First Line: They walk among us in the cold Last Line: Their flock jumps from the blue sky %into the darkest pits of conscience Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRACOW, NOW!, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Defeated, exiled, indefensibly committed Last Line: Toward precarious lodging, %in the ghettos of your unsuspecting ears Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLE, by SHIKE DRIZ Poem Source First Line: The cradle rocks itself %morning and night Last Line: Holds one bloody straw %in its mouth today Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG, by ITZIK FEFFER Poem Source First Line: Do not sleep, my darling child; %now's no time for dreams Last Line: When you're grown, my darling, show %you've your father's spirit! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG, by LEIZER WOLF Poem Source First Line: Sleep, my child; %the night is dropping Last Line: Stretch their feet out %at our feet Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG 1943, by MOISHE SHULSHTEIN Poem Source First Line: I'll sing a lullaby to you, my dear Last Line: Sleep, life of my life that will not be Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG FOR AMERICAN-JEWISH CHILDREN-1940, by ZEKHARYE-KHONE BERGNER Poem Source First Line: Sleep, my child, my jewish child Last Line: Child - if you are able Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG FOR TODAY, by ZISHA LANDAU Poem Source First Line: Overhead a cold moon gleams; %drowse, my darling, into dreams Last Line: And whoever comes their way %shall not see another day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CRADLESONG OF A JEWISH MOTHER IN POLAND, by MEYER-ZIMMEL TKATCH Poem Source First Line: Husha - hush, my little jew, %branch of a great line Last Line: That I should be singing you %such a lullaby Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CREATION, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: The creator called forth Last Line: And help finish the work of creation Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CREATION'S PSALM, by SWITHUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A deep-bassed thunder-rolling psalm Last Line: "the thundering heavens roar, ""I am!" Alternate Author Name(s): Swithin; Swithaine Subject(s): Bible; Creation; Jews; Judaism CROSSING, by PATRICIA MOGER VARSHAVTCHIK Poem Source First Line: I have searched, delved, studied Last Line: As I choose my name, %the water of the lakes rests nearby, %sparkling Subject(s): Jews - Women CROUP, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: At night %in our bed Last Line: I'll be so good %you won't be sorry Subject(s): Jews - Women CROW-MAGNON MAN, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Although hardly original Last Line: He sees them pecking his flattened, bleeding carcass Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CROWN OF KINGDOM: CONSTELLATIONS, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who can know your ways Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism CRYSTAL NIGHT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Windows slashed like skin pulled Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CUORSE ON HIS FATHER'S SUCCESSORS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: To this day, animosity fills his nostrils Last Line: He spits backward, not waiting to hear the splatter Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews CUTTING THE JEWISH BRIDES'S HAIR, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It's to possess more than the skin %that those old world jews Last Line: But this little amputation %will shift the balance of the universe Subject(s): Jews - Women DACHAU, by MARY KATHRYN STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: I was born within these confines Last Line: I am not allowed to go farther. %I will not go Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DACHAU '44, by JUDITH BERKE Poem Source First Line: Jawheh sat on the floor next to my bed Last Line: Then I lay down on the bed, and rested Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DACHAU MOON, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place lie germany in the body Last Line: Not placed properly on the head %like this, lord, like this Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DADDIES' GIRLS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: An old sales rep who lost both daughters in the holocaust Last Line: She'll always be death's whore Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism DADDY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not do, you do not do Last Line: They always knew it was you. %daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Daughters; Hate; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis DAILY RITUAL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The world ali says %and dreams Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Arabs; Boxing And Boxers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets DAN'S SHOE REPAIR: 1959, by CHRISTINE LAHEY Poem Source First Line: We know who her father is Last Line: Pictures stuck in his mind %that he cannot talk about Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DANCING DOG, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I am the placid animal Last Line: I stepped into the day: a well-trained animal Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DANIEL, by RICHARD WILTON Poem Text First Line: Imperial persia bowed to his wise sway Last Line: Which past these visible horizons hide. Subject(s): Daniel (bible); Jews; Prayer; Judaism DARK-LAND (1), by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are these last things reduced Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Anglican Church; Jews; English History DARKNESS AND LIGHT, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Darkness and light %are my intimate family Last Line: Are my lifelong companions Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DAUGHTER OF THE MORI, by SHALOM SHABAZI Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DAUGHTER OF ZION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: The oppressor is vanquished and zion is free! Subject(s): Freedom;jews;zionism; Liberty;judaism DAVID, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you wonder why such longing Last Line: For the heart of every nation. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Judaism DAVID, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The gentle little boy with the brown eyes Last Line: Of his grandfather's old, boney hands Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky DAVID AND JONATHAN, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: On the brow of gilboa is war's bloody stain Last Line: Ah, how are the mighty fallen! Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Jonathan (bible); Judaism DAVID KAUFMANN, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the murm'ring din and seething strife Last Line: Thine is a memory to live, to last! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism DAVID'S LAMENT, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the voice of the mourner be heard on the mountain Last Line: And holy the tear that shall fall on their grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Judaism DAY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Oh! The bright wonderful days Last Line: And cover me with dixie's blue sky... Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky DAY FOR ANNE FRANK, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look onto an alley here Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DAY OF ATONEMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this day sublime elect, my god, to thee" Last Line: To glorify thy throne divine! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts;god;jews;yom Kippur; Judaism DAY OF ATONEMENT, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the day of atonement we fasted Last Line: Ablaze, wondering how to throw the light in Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur DAY OF ATONEMENT, SELS., by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Source Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur DAYENI, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Rebono, %would it not have been sufficient Last Line: Who need me to %hand grind and hand bake %matzas out of oats? Subject(s): Jews - Women DAYS ARE PASSING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DEAD CHILD SPEAKS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother held me by my hand Last Line: The unsheathing of the great knife of parting Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEAD MEN DON'T PRAISE GOD, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We received the torah on sinai Last Line: Dead men don't praise god. %the torah was given to the living Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEAR NEIGHBORS, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buy, buy, dear neighbors, %buy this piece of earth Last Line: In foreign, wanderer nights %it may pillow me asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Meanwhile life continued Last Line: And he sobbed out loud %like a small and helpless child Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Variant Title(s): Deathfugue Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Variant Title(s): Deathfugue Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening Last Line: Dein aschenes haar shulamith Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Variant Title(s): Deathfugu Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of dawn we drink it at dusk Last Line: Your golden hair margarete %your ashen hair shulamite Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH FUGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown Last Line: Your ashen hair shulamith Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH MAZURKA, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: It was late -- late in the silence Last Line: And now! They shrieked. And now! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews DEATH OF RACHEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All day she stirs the soup Last Line: She stirs the dust into dust Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine DEATH OF THE PARTISAN GIRL: RUSSIA, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: There must have been a time when everything to you Last Line: But I intend to remember Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEATH SHIP, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It lay in the harbor at istanbul Last Line: One was saved. %he was allowed to enter %palestine Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEBORAH: THE SONG OF DEBORAH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Deborah sang that day Subject(s): Deborah (bible); Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Women In The Bible; Judaism DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not save Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime; Shoah; Judaism DEDICATION, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not save Last Line: I put this book here for you, who once lived %so that you should visit us no more Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Human Rights; Jews; Poland - Communist Regime DEFACING GRAVESTONES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Who ever knew such bucolic seclusion as I do Last Line: Who died a lifetime ago Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEFILEMENT, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Ye shall not pollute Last Line: We purify ourselves, %and we survive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DEJA VU, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I close my eyes, recall a scene of you Last Line: As I gazed at you hungrily back then? Subject(s): Jews; Medicine DELIVERANCE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: There's an age your son will swing Last Line: Prepare, with luck, to wipe his brow Subject(s): Jews; Medicine DEPRESSION, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: Bees celebrate indian summer Last Line: The way I close my eyes and wait for the lights %to come back on Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 DESIRE, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Desire %comes like the sea wind Last Line: The same scent rises %from both lovers lying %curled on our sides like harbors Subject(s): Jews - Women DESNOS READING THE PALMS OF MEN ON THEIR WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe I should go back to the white leather Last Line: Don't you hear it? Subject(s): Desnos, Robert (1900-1945); Fortune Tellers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Hope; Jews; Palmistry; Shoah; Optimism; Judaism DESTROYING ALL TRACES OF EVIDENCE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: His amorphous shape awakens inordinately late Last Line: The ss has arrived to gather his ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Troy DEVILS' DANCE, by NATHAN KORMAN Poem Source First Line: Heine goes up in flame, and the gomorrah Last Line: Devils' curse - but only curse themselves Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DI MAGILAS FUN AUSHVITS (THE SCROLLS OF AUSCHSWITZ), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He vanished & reappeared in a room no bigger than a Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Concentration Camps; Jews; Judaism DI RAYSE AHEYM / THE JOURNEY HOME, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She looks out the window Last Line: Will become monuments %ire zikhroynes %will cast shadows Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DIARY OF A TASHKENT JEW, by GLORIA GLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: In white siberia where the fallen have risen Last Line: We who were murdered lie eternally awake %stirring ashes Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DIASPORA, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How he survived them they could never understand Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): 'the Jew Wrecked In The German Cell Subject(s): Jews; Religion DIASPORA, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By what name will they call Subject(s): Jews DIE VERARBEITUNG, PROCESSING, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: In the words of ss unterscharfuhrer franz suchomel, treblinka was Last Line: Figure cited by some jews today Variant Title(s): A German Lesson; Treblink Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DIGGING, by FRANK LOUIS FINALE Poem Source First Line: She went to the local library, found Last Line: Over the open trencfhes in a field %where evergreens bristle the wind, listen, shh %shh Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DINING OUT, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Though not exactly the milieu Last Line: With stretchers and wheelchairs Subject(s): Jews; Medicine DIRGE OF RACHEL, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And rachel lies in ephrath's land Last Line: To break the slumber that hath bound her. Subject(s): Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism DIRTY TREE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: How it became the enemy-he's not quite sure Last Line: He never filled its grave Subject(s): Jews; Medicine DISHES, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: On the street where I grew up, there was a man whose mother went mad from Last Line: Plates rattle on, and I peer through a slit to gaze at the obscene shape of the moon Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; China (porcelain); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Pottery And Potters DITTY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the jewish god go? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DITTY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where did the jewish god go? Last Line: As dew from the grass Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DIVINE LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know not what this world would be Last Line: And why? Because our spirits burn Subject(s): God;jews;love; Judaism DIXIE LAND, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The powerful skilled hunters from the hills Last Line: Hooray, hooray, for dixie, hooray!' Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky DOCTRINE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Sundays I sit on the floor in a paper Last Line: And started for seattle Subject(s): Jews - United States DOCUMENT, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Page of dead letters. Dead words Last Line: But the name, sol, is clear and sharp as blood on glass Subject(s): Jews - United States DOE, MY YOUNGER DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DON'T ACT SPOILED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women DON'T SING THE SORROWFUL, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Don't sing the sorrowful; %don't bring disgrace Last Line: The life that is hidden %in each Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DONNA CLARA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening-shaded garden Last Line: "israel of saragossa." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Jews; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Judaism DOOR II (THE NAME), by EDMOND JABES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With your screams you have composed his name. And every scream is one Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism 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 DOUBLING, by LESTER SPEISER Poem Source First Line: The schutzhaftlagerfuhrer dines Last Line: For franz, lieber schatzi franz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DRAFT OF A REPARATIONS AGREEMENT, by DAN PAGIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All right, gentlemen who cry blue murder as always Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Judaism DRAFT OF A REPARATIONS AGREEMENT, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All right, gentlemen who cry blue murder as always Last Line: And will emigrate %to the sky Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews DRAWING THE BLINDS, by GERALD MUSINSKY Poem Source First Line: If you have seen the tan-shell beetles Last Line: But leave the chair, close the windows, %and draw the blinds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREAMS, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Daydreams, %nightdreams, %waking dreams Last Line: Will I still be haunted by dreams, %eternally Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREAMS, by SHIFRE WEISS Poem Source First Line: I am the tablets %of all the dreams I've dreamt Last Line: To rescue the dreams I dreamt, %rewrite the holy pages Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREAMS OF AUSCHWITZ, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY Poem Source First Line: I often dream of auschwitz now Last Line: Wears down what's left of people Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREAMSCAPE WITH THREE CROWS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Three crows, %like gargoyles poised on a cathedral's lip Last Line: For fear that corpses might be stacked there Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DREYFUS, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: France has no dungeons in her island tomb Last Line: She questions, and thy foes shall answer yet. Subject(s): Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935); France; Jews; Judaism DREYFUS, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man stood stained! France was one alp of hate Last Line: And shrug the shoulder for reply to god. Subject(s): Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935); Jews; Justice; Judaism DRILL AT NATHANYA, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: As strange as it would be to encounter a five-legged zebra Last Line: Thick and black against the ash-gray heavens Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Military DRINKING WITH THE NAZIS, by JOSEPH GLAZER Poem Source First Line: Down the street their script on every window Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DURING THE CRUSADES, by RABBI ELEAZAR Poem Text First Line: Thy faithful sons, whom thou in love hast owned Last Line: Crushed, drowned, or with harsh saws asunder sawn. Subject(s): Crusades; Jews; Judaism DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 1. WHEN WE LOOK UP, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had not looked Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 1. WHEN WE LOOK UP, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had not looked Last Line: Does not know: we are members %one of another Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 3. CRYSTAL NIGHT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From blacked-out streets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism DURING THE EICHMANN TRIAL: 3. CRYSTAL NIGHT, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From blacked-out streets Last Line: Each a mirror %for man's eys Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DUST, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: White winter came again Last Line: Made the sign of the cross at the grave, and cried to the wind Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky DVORA, by DENYSE KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: Today %to be a jew in israel is to carry in your heart a lifelong debet Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DYING IN JERUSALEM, by THOMAS RAGG Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Last Line: My father's land! My own! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Judaism DYING-SHALL MAN LIVE AGAIN?, by ALBERT FRANK HOFFMANN Poem Text First Line: In dying, will the parting breath Last Line: "who dies to self, forever lives." Subject(s): Death; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism E, by ALBERT EINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Mc(2) Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism EARRINGS, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: A bialik tradition back home was Last Line: The empty holes %grown shut Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women EAST NEW YORK, 1943, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Pitkin avenue is not yet captive of the new automobile Last Line: And like a physician, they decide its fate Subject(s): Jews; Medicine ECLIPSE OF 1964, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Slow and sure, %like god's sword Last Line: She is wrapped in the smoke %of burning jews Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EDEN, by JACQUELINE LAPIDUS Poem Source First Line: Ever since I discovered %lilith, things Last Line: Adam %notices but says nothing %this knowledge of our power %sticks in his throat Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 EFFECT OVER DISTANCE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The six-foot indigo plumes of the 'sacred necropolis bird Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Public Worship; Jews; Church Attendance; Judaism EFFORT AT SPEECH BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak to me. Take my hand. What are you now? Last Line: Everyone silent, moving - take my hand. Speak to me Subject(s): Jews - Women EIN URALTER SPRUCH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most prayers of my childhood days Last Line: Boree peri hagofen. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Jews; Prayer; Judaism ELEGY, by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: June, %and you are gone at ninety-one Last Line: That sabbath candle at no one's table. Grandma, %who will say the evening blessing? Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ELEGY, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: We were bridesmaids in the same wedding Last Line: Through a new ritual you went on %marrying - marrying Subject(s): Jews - Women ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: And now - is the pain gone? Last Line: That I am beginning to open the book Subject(s): Jews - Women ELEGY; IN HONOR OF THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING, APRIL 19,1943, by ANTONI SLONIMSKI Poem Source First Line: No more, no more jewish townships in poland Last Line: Two nations which supped full of the same suffering Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ELI 1943, by R. M. COOPER Poem Source First Line: One of the visiting dignitaries Last Line: Picture: leaning slightly forward, at ease, %smiling - a group-shot standing near some trees Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ELKA, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: And when I touch you, do you think of him? Last Line: His spirit through my veins. I'm yours to use Subject(s): Jews; Medicine ELLIS ISLAND, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three thousand miles of atlantic seas and a throb Last Line: "the grain of sand, the earth, the soul, our country—the word ""god!" Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips ELLIS ISLAND, SEPTEMBER 1907 (1), by ANDREA HOLLANDER BUDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sadie, who was only twelve, wrote each letter down Last Line: Where she could become it Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Marginality, Social; Names ELUSIONIST, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Lately, sleep has been such an amorphous place Last Line: To prove that auschwitz didn't neuter his spirit %eternally Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EMBERS, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: This loving thing-it's not for mom and dad Last Line: And brushes pointed lips to tilted cheek Subject(s): Jews; Medicine EMIGRE JEWESS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: Farther than the west wind I am going Subject(s): Jews - Women; Women's Rights EMMA LAZARUS, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on thy bed of pain thou layest low Last Line: That with jehovah parleyed, face to face. Subject(s): Jews; Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887); Judaism EMPEROR OF CHINA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the boy who played with a rope Last Line: Wrings on the rag and wipes them again Subject(s): Arabs; Courts And Courtiers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine EMPTY LITTLE BED, by DAVID EINHORN Poem Source First Line: Lulla, lulla, baby's bed, %baby's bare, deserted bed - Last Line: Where my little goat lies dead %let us bleed together Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews END OF THE PACK, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: As the day drew to a close Last Line: And they withdrew into the night Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: When lebesgue receives his honorary degree Last Line: And they will begin -- again Subject(s): Jews; Lvov Ghetto ENEMY IS THE DARK., by PHYLLIS KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Last Line: He gave me cool water in a yahrzeit glass Subject(s): Jews - Women ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE, 1927, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: New on the block Last Line: She got an a in class %held her new words like the star spangled banner Subject(s): English Language; Grandparents; Immigrants; Jews - Women ENIGMA VARIATIONS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir winston churchill advised against suicide Last Line: And no place: a suicide who lived to regret it. Subject(s): Jews; Suicide; Judaism ENTRANCE TO THE OLD CRACOW GHETTO, by DAVID ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: Symmetry of alleyways and coutryard Last Line: To spring the cage, plunging the bird %into a shining field Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ENVY, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The day might envy rival night Last Line: As long as you are near to me Subject(s): Jews; Medicine EQUALITY, FATHER, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Equality, father! Your dream has come true Last Line: Let us commit a mortal sin %worthy of death Subject(s): Fathers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ERASURES, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: I'm beginning to forget names, faces Last Line: As I listen to my breath - %the oldest sound I know Subject(s): Jews - Women EREV SHABBAT TEFILAH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Erev shabbat in synagogue Last Line: And makes me feel holy %for a short time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ESCAPING GHETTOS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: For the last fifty years Last Line: Almost believed they belonged to the vaterland Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ESTEEMING THE BIBLE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This holy book I'd rather own Last Line: Their tears shall cease to flow. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology ESTHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face more vivid than he dreamed who drew Last Line: Honor no second place for truth can keep. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fear; Hearts; Jews; Memory; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism ESTHER, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: Sweet jewish maid, crown'd with a monarch's / love Last Line: We bring to thee. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism ESTHER J. RUSKAY, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We meet to-day to call upon thy name Last Line: Revered and loved and mourned in israel. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism ETCHINGS, by JAMES WILLIAM CHICHETTO Poem Source First Line: Perhaps there is a better night than this or better dream Last Line: To put a rock down on their graves. %... And they buried the dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ETERNITY, by MOISHE SHIMMEL Poem Source First Line: I need help like a person dangerously ailing Last Line: - because I'm scared of being dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EUROPE, LATE, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Violins float in the sky Last Line: Don't worry so - you'll see - it could Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EUROPEAN MOVEMENTS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Cordoba to hamburg bordeaux to Last Line: Culture! Such anointings with sacred oils, %bathings in blessed waters! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EVE, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep over me you bent your head Last Line: You bent your head deep over me Subject(s): Bible; Jews - Women EVE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time a lovely scene Last Line: In god's own image made. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; God; Jews; Judaism EVEN AS THE DAILY OFFERING, by SOLOMON BEN ABUN Poem Text First Line: Judge of the earth who wilt arraign Last Line: As offerings brought continually. Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Jews; Judgments; Redemption; Sin; Clemency; Judaism EVEN THE OLD MEN'S LAST BREATH, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even the old men's last breath %that had already grazed death Last Line: And drive this unloosed star %into its lord's hands! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EVENING SHADOWS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Over the mother's sick bed Last Line: The end of every beginning, the end of all ends Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky EVERY FEW MONTHS, by ALINA TUGEND Poem Source Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EVIL HAS BEEN COMMITTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We will have to fall back on Subject(s): Arabs; Evil; Fasts And Feasts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Yom Kippur EXCAVATOR, by EMILY BORENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The engine of the excavator rumbles Last Line: May it fall apart! %may it fall into quicksand! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EXECUTION OF MEMORY, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: When the first patches of snow Last Line: By walking I trample Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EXIT FROM EGYPTIAN BONDAGE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: When israel's sons, from cruel bondage freed Last Line: Heaven's high commands were heard, and were believed. Subject(s): Jews - Exodus From Egypt 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 EXODUS, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: The lord is a man of war Subject(s): Jews; War EXPERIMENTS WITH GOD, by KAREN GERSHON Poem Source First Line: As a child before she knew Last Line: The gas of auschwitz on god's breath Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EXPOSURE, by ESTHER CAMERON Poem Source First Line: Supine in the rough grass Last Line: This is your destiny, your vigil, %your service Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews EYES, THE BLOOD, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother of the blue %anglo-saxon eyes Last Line: I heard it as a child Subject(s): Jews FACES IN SWAMPS: 1, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: And overnight our thoughts grew gray. The sun Last Line: Faces in a swamp --over the sunset, over huts Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FACES IN SWAMPS: 2, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Serpents of darkness: nooses choke Last Line: And it's a shame to put it to my throat Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAITH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: To my dog who doesn't fetch Last Line: To the pampering hand. %you know what counts Subject(s): Jews; Medicine FAITH, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Of all thy gifts the best! Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Belief; Creed; Judaism FAMILY, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virgin - she %must have been in that Last Line: The greenness gone someplace else Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAMILY ALBUM, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: My father stands in the picture Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAMILY ALBUM, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: Some pages have eyes, some mouths. They desire Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAMILY PICNIC, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: All yellow and pink, child Last Line: Holding you, she recrosses continents Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FAMILY SECRETS, by SHARON KESSLER Poem Source First Line: My waiting time is over. I absolve you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FARAWAY LANDSCAPE, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: An artist in our midst. Fool, I tell myself, why risk Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAREWELL EARTH, by PENINNAH BRAUDE Poem Source First Line: How I love to breathe the air of you Last Line: One tear. %one Subject(s): Jews - Women FAREWELL TO EUROPE, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: We, the captives of a thousand skies Last Line: You have no one to bludgeon but each other! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAREWELL TO MARIA, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: If you are living, remember Last Line: Like human smoke above the wind Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FAT, by TONI MERGENTIME LEVI Poem Source First Line: Sensing behind her back %that I had slimmed Last Line: Slipping out the door at seventeen %dressed only in my nerve and bones Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FATHER'S LULLABY, by AARON KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Through some wild, deserted stretch Last Line: I am now your mother . . . I. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FATHERS, by CECILE L. MARTINDALE Poem Source First Line: My father would sing to me Last Line: Or turn a leaf and guide small fingers %to the braille of the underside Subject(s): Jews - Women FEBRUARY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The park hangs on to what keeps growing Last Line: To the end feel like %becoming? Subject(s): Arabs; February; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Winter FEINSTEIN THE CLOTHIER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Heading to breakfast early Last Line: Splattering on the town's sacrosanct marble steps Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FELDMESTEN OR MEASURING THE GRAVES, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hill and glade, the flowers fade Last Line: "when will we weave it threads of song?" Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jews; Mourning; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Bereavement FEUDS, by DANIEL GREEN Poem Source First Line: Set six jews beside a half-dozen Last Line: Though differences are too small to count Subject(s): Jews; Vendetta FEW MORE THINGS ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST, by LEATRICE H. LIFSHITZ Poem Source First Line: Not only their money Last Line: A few more things %like shame and shadow %space and spirit %god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FIELD ANTHROPOLOGIST GIVES BIRTH, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: I hate the mundugumor Last Line: Her dawn head, bloodfeathered. My child, %your serious face Subject(s): Jews - Women FILIPPO BALDINUCCI ON THE PRIVILEGE OF BURIAL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, boy, we must not'- so began Last Line: "o lord, how long? How long, o lord?" Subject(s): Funerals; Italy; Jews; Burials; Italians; 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 FINAL SERVICE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The curved funeral parlor bench Last Line: Too small to hold %the paul you recall Subject(s): Jews; Medicine FIRST JOB, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: The %first Last Line: Went %willingly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: To speak out for me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FIRST THOUGHTS: ON LIBERATION DAY FROM A CONCENTRATION CAMP, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: I will leave my prison Last Line: I who have dared to live to this day %now dare to leave the darkness of this place Subject(s): Jews - Women FIRST TIME WE MADE SHABBOS TOGETHER., by MERLE FELD Poem Source Last Line: And indeed we have bloomed through the years Subject(s): Jews - Women FIVE FOR THE REBBE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The rebbe went dancing Last Line: All that they drink is life Subject(s): Clergy;hasidism;jews;mysticism - Judaism; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism FLOATING (2), by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: Floating we'd meander Last Line: Before closing Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape FLOOR KEEPS TURNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She looks at her watch Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Time FOLK ART, by JUDITH CHALMER Poem Source First Line: Just the outlines %of wings Last Line: Like the cover on a waking bird Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOLLOW THE CALL, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Royal eagle, chained and bound Last Line: But two or three stand firm together Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews FOOTNOTE FOR PERETS MARKISH, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: There it was, perets, your name Last Line: What if hair is sprouting on your dreaming head %lost perets markish, lost hero? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Ukraine FOOTNOTE: ADOLPH HITLER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, 1933, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: There was a man Last Line: Thought the jews would not see germany again. Subject(s): Germany; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Jews; Spain; Germans; Judaism FOR A COMRADE, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Murdered comrade %at the barbed wire Last Line: Let another swallow my word %as I, your bread Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR ADOLF EICHMANN, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind runs free across our plains Last Line: Saw it grow dark around him, the air filled with death Subject(s): Eichmann, Adolf (1906-1962); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR ANNE AT PASSOVER, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold easter week and the hard buds, forming, shake Last Line: We are all babes who suck at love together Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Bible; Christianity; Critics And Criticism; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jews; Passover; Religion - Reformers FOR HERMANN HEYEN, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hermann, the channel was blue-green Last Line: Anyway, your plane blew up, for a moment, %like a sun; your dust bailed out all over Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For it was the first day of rosh ha'shanah, new year's day, day of remembrance, of ancient sacrifice Subject(s): Rosh Hashanah; Jews; Worship; Dogs; Judaism FOR JANUSZ KORCZAK, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: It is a fine murder of landscape Last Line: Wall is rubble and michelangelo's %chapel gapes with the true heaven Subject(s): Jews FOR MALKA WHO LIVED THREE DAYS DYING, by LAURA K. KASISCHKE Poem Source First Line: Through long days and nights, he went Last Line: In this dream, tell me, %does she whisper where the strength%comes from? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR MY BROTHER JESUS, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father had terrible words for you Last Line: With your words of love, %your voice gentle as my father's Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jews FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, RUTH LEVIN, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Two gnarled tree trunks from russia Last Line: But I'll never give you a great-grandchild %only a love poem I hope you understand Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FOR NELLY SACHS, by KINERETH GENSLER Poem Source First Line: Every morning I took a shower Last Line: This numbness %like the end of all desire %the terrible forgetting in my body Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR OUR DEAD, by MARILYNN CAROLE GLICK TALAL Poem Source First Line: The air where their ashes have gone Last Line: That hole in the air hangs, shaping itself %into a mouth silently screaming Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR THE ARDEATINE CAVES: 1. ABOVE THE GIARDINO ALLA FRANCESE, by VINCE CLEMENTE Poem Source First Line: From your window above the giardino all francese Last Line: This god redeyed %all in pieces %seeding the fall harvest Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR THE ARDEATINE CAVES: 2. INSIDE THE ARDEATINE CAVES, by VINCE CLEMENTE Poem Source First Line: You learn, herr kappler Last Line: No resurrection here,' %you tell yourself, %'none tonight.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR THE CHILDREN, by DAVID MCKAIN Poem Source First Line: In a painting by brueghel Last Line: Upside down in the cold winter light %for all the children to see Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JOAN SELIGER SIDNEY Poem Source First Line: Our rabbi tells us not to live in the past Last Line: Familiar road turn black with soldiers Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women FOR THE YIDDISH POETS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Everything. Hours of %forgetfulness, caressed Last Line: Is remembered in the dazed glimmer %of wakefulness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOR VICTIMS, by DAVID SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: They have used the bodies Last Line: Which belongs to them %light passers-by Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: In this light, at the window, her reflection Last Line: As paper, and as precious Subject(s): Jews - United States FORCED MARCH, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: You're crazy. You fall down, - stand up and walk again Last Line: Don't walk past me, friend. - yell, and I'll stand up again! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FORCED MARCH; BOR, 15 SEPTEMBER 1944, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: The man who, having collapsed, rises, takes steps, is insane Last Line: Don't go past me, my friend - shout! And I'll rise again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FORGETTING' HE SAID, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And what we had wanted %to forget Subject(s): Arabs; Aviation And Aviators; Hotels; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Travel FORTY THREE YEARS AFTER HITLER MY PARENTS VISIT EUGENE, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: One day in the fall sun Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FOUR JEWISH SYRIAN DAUGHTERS, by ADA AHARONI Poem Source First Line: My four sisters %the blood that flowed from you Last Line: Their daughters' tongues %have been grafted onto mine Subject(s): Jews - Women FRAGMENT, by FRANZ KAFKA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never will you draw the water out of the depths of this well Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Silence; Judaism FRANCE'S SHAME, by B. B. USHER Poem Text First Line: Talk not of christian france, lest mantling shame Last Line: See france degraded, humbled in the dust. Subject(s): Catholics; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Judaism FREDERIC DAVID MOCATTA, by JAMES MEW Poem Text First Line: Of what avail in low estate to weep Last Line: And wake! With god's own likeness, satisfied! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Peace; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Judaism FREEDOM DAY: MAY 5TH, by ROGER SUVA Poem Source First Line: Along the prinsen gracht %I saw anne frank's house Last Line: To celebrate the end of the holocaust Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FRIDAY IN JERUSALEM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We wake to roosters arguing over tractates of talmud Last Line: Reverently raises his new watch to the ceiling Subject(s): Jews - United States FRIDAY NIGHT, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The majesty of sunset in the west Last Line: And over all god's blessings everywhere! Subject(s): Jews; Peace; Prayer; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday FRIDAY NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Friday night! Come draw the curtain Last Line: On this peaceful sabbath night. Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Night; Sabbath; Shadows; Nightmares; Judaism; Bedtime; Sunday FRIDAY NIGHT OUT, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He's grown so used to living alone Last Line: On the front stoop of his dreams, %greeting him home, again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FRIENDSHIP, by SEM TOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What treasure greater than a friend Last Line: Betrays affections won. Alternate Author Name(s): Santob De Carrion; Santo, Don Subject(s): Friendship; Jews; Judaism FROM POLAND, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After soulless germany, my sister writes Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Poland; Homecoming; Family Life; Jews FROM VILNA WENT FORTH STILL ANOTHER DECREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From vilna went forth still another decree Last Line: Some storm troopers, bitten and bloody Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews FULLNESS OF THE BIBLE, by H. J. BETTS Poem Text First Line: There is a lamp whose steady light Last Line: These healing leaves, this heavenly tree. Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Jews; Religion; Paradise; Judaism; Theology GABY AT THE U. N. OBSERVATION POST, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: On the border %you're posed and poised as a model Last Line: Turn your face away from the wind %when it blows %their loose hair in your eyes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GAS OVENS, by JOANNA M. WESTON Poem Source First Line: We dropped cyanide leaves Last Line: So we did it to his son Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GEESE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brittle winter afternoon in moscow, the american Last Line: Too, although we never see it happening' %-- a thread in the lining Subject(s): Houdini, Harry (1874-1926); Jews; Russia GEMATRIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Light %a mystery Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism 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 GENESIS, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And the lord god caused a deep sleep Subject(s): Jews; Sleep GENIZAH, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin's mind skipped grooves like a jostled record, bounced Last Line: Returns to where it has not been Subject(s): Jews; Synagogues GENUINE JEWISH FLESH, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Rabbi abe rosen returned home from hell Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GERMAN FRONTIER AT BASEL: 1942 & 1992, by HILDA SCHIFF Poem Source First Line: Just four miles to go and the frontier ahead Last Line: The sweat, the stench, the gas, the horror Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GERMAN OFFICER WRITES A LETTER, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: My dear predecessor, %these three days have proved Last Line: Would you be so kind %to recommend somebody good Variant Title(s): The German Officer Inherit Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Masculinity (psychology) GERMAN OUT-CAST, by W. FREDRIC KAUFMAN Poem Text First Line: A little lad is born Last Line: A little lad was born -- a jew. Subject(s): Ambition; Jews; Religious Discrimination; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Religious Conflict GERMAN REQUIEM, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down Last Line: It is what they do not say Subject(s): Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GERMANY, 1981, by PHYLLIS KAHANEY Poem Source First Line: Once in berlin I rode the subway all day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GETTING LOST IN NAZI GERMANY, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do not move about, but try Last Line: Calling you home, little jewboy in alarm. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nazis; Shoah; Judaism; National Socialism GEY KLAP DEM KOP IN VANT, by MILDRED BRENNER POLLNER Poem Source First Line: Go bang you head against the wall! Last Line: Her pronouncements %music to my ears! Subject(s): Jews - Women GHAZAL, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Oh to shriek passion to the winds Last Line: It's not for justice. It's for release Subject(s): Jews; Medicine GHETTO, by GLORIA GLICKSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Still I see them. Inform, creeping Last Line: My mother's mother, my father's father %an integrated pile of ash Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GHETTO LULLABY, by ISAIAH SPIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Time now to shut your eyes; %out of the darkening skies Last Line: Followed you to the precipice of the world Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GHETTO SONG, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within your bones my singing %melts like the snow's first flakes Last Line: The good hands of your father %are opening the gate Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GHOST OF SOULMAKING: FOR RUTH OPPENHEIM, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ghost appears in the dark of winter Last Line: Wafts over the trees at sunrise and forgives the dusk Subject(s): Ghosts; Jews; Supernatural GHOSTS OF NARRATIVE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the stories that make us Last Line: A promise, and they laugh Subject(s): Bible – Old Testament; Jews - Exodus From Egypt GIFT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1945, when the keepers cried kaput Last Line: That clean white paper waiting under a pen %is the gift beyond history and hurt and heaven Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GIFT, by LUADA SANDLER Poem Source First Line: My life, she said at last, quietly Last Line: And tell your parents, tell them with love, %to make of their memories a gift to the world Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GIFTS, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN Poem Source First Line: She sat amidst %the clutter of her life Last Line: It always makes %wonderful soup Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GIFTS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O world-god, give me wealth!' the egyptian cried Last Line: Immortal through the lamp within his hand. Subject(s): Jews; Patriotism; Judaism GIRL OF SIX FROM THE GHETTO BEGGING IN SMOLNA STREET IN 1942, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: She had nothing %but eyes to grow up to Last Line: With a jewish accent %of hunger %so she died Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GIRLS THAT ARE WANTED., by MARIE ODLUM Poem Source Last Line: But, oh! For the wise, loving home girls %there's constant and steady demand Subject(s): Jews - Women GOD AND HIS MARTYRS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Text First Line: For I have hither come, o ye dead bones Last Line: And mourn myself upon your graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Forgiveness; Jews; Martyrs; Clemency; Judaism GOD EVERYWHERE, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wheresoe'er I turn mine eyes Last Line: Ascends to thee, to whom all praise be given. Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism GOD HAS TAKEN, GOD HAS GIVEN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The cold let up. A blue Last Line: He cuts into the neck with a dull knife Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky GOD HID HIS FACE, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the roads led to death, %all the roads Last Line: All the heavens. %god hid his face Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GOD IN EUROPE, by URI ZVI GREENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were not like dogs among the gentiles ... They pity a dog Alternate Author Name(s): Greenberg, Uritsvi Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism GOD IS NIGH TO CONTRITE HEARTS, by DAVID LEVY Poem Text First Line: Lord of the world, we seek thy face Last Line: Shall be its true and blest reward. Subject(s): God; Jews; Prayer; Judaism GOD OF ISRAEL, by ABRAHAM GLANTS-LEYELES Poem Source First Line: The god of israel is not rich Last Line: Letters in love with letters Subject(s): Books; Jews; Language GOD OF THE WORLD (A SABBATH HYMN), by ISRAEL NAJARA Poem Text First Line: God of the world, eternity's sole lord! Last Line: King over kings, be now thy name adored! Subject(s): God; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday GOD ONLY KNOWS, by MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN Poem Source First Line: Like a woried mother Last Line: If anything will ever %come of it Subject(s): Jews - Women GOD TEACHES US HOW TO FORGIVE, BUT WE FORGET, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: The night & fog decree Last Line: What was once human %is hurt forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, by JOEL BLAU Poem Text First Line: In the sadness of your eyes Last Line: Teach me to humbly bow to god's great will. Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Religious Education; Belief; Creed; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools GOD'S DEATH, by FLORENCE WALLACH FREED Poem Source First Line: During the holocaust %along with the six million Last Line: Banishes %himself %from the universe %forever %I say %forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GOD'S MESSENGERS, by MRS. A LEVY R, Poem Text First Line: I asked the wind, 'where hast thou been Last Line: Thy god—and god is love. Subject(s): God; Jews; Love; Judaism GOETHE'S TREE, by ANNIE DAWID Poem Source First Line: Red triangle covers %left breast pocket Last Line: And wrote some of his most %beautiful poetry' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GOLDEN LIGHTS FOR CHANUKAH, by JANIE JACOBSON Poem Text First Line: O golden lights, shine out anew Last Line: "lord among the gods, who is like thee?" Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Jews; Light; Belief; Creed; Judaism GOOD JEW, by RICHARD CHESS Poem Source First Line: No one suspects a jew among the hogs Last Line: From me, recall this voice Subject(s): Jews GOOD NIGHT, WORLD, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good night, wide world Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism GOOD NIGHT, WORLD, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It cries in me, the joy of coming Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Jews - Persecution GOOD TIDINGS TO ZION, by THOMAS KELLY (1769-1855) Poem Text First Line: On the mountain's top appearing Last Line: End in everlasting rest. Subject(s): Friendship; God; Jews; Zionism; Judaism GOVERNESS, by EVELYN WEXLER Poem Source First Line: I know what I am not Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GRACE AFTER MEALS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our rock with loving care Last Line: "by blessing of the lord. / our rock, etc" Subject(s): God;grace;jews;prayer;temples; Judaism;mosques 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 GRANDFATHER IN WINTER, by FREDERICK FEIRSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The overcoats are gone from central park Last Line: Be sung. It is the eve of war again: %shema Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GRANDMA, by JESSE KULBERG Poem Source First Line: As I grow older Last Line: And how I miss her how I miss her how %I miss her Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMA SARAH, by DEBORAH ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: When I was young I would ask you to show me Last Line: I watch its dormant jewish waves %spring soundlessly to life Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMA'S OBITUARY, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: At eighty, %she drove once a week to the montefiore rest home Last Line: But what would my friends say!' she gasped, and died at the thought Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by LISA GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I imagine three men %standing on the shore Last Line: Quivers as you sleep, %grandmother Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by RUTH HARRIET JACOBS Poem Source First Line: My grandmother, marmita %was given the name minnie Last Line: And trace her love %forever on me Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER, by KAREN SEXTON-STEIN Poem Source First Line: We planted seeds Last Line: I, her shadow %and she, my world Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER SOPHIE, by SUSAN SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: The silence tells me it's sabbath Last Line: And sophie on the fire escape %winks a slavic eye Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHER'S STORY, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother shlepped these %candlesticks all the way Last Line: Later she said the candlesticks %were a gift from the czar Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRANDMOTHERS, by MARYLYN CROMAN Poem Source First Line: My father's mother %wore silky dresses Last Line: You end by choosing your own Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women GRAY, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: The gray - %an indeterminate area Last Line: So that we gain a day of almost peace Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GRAY HAIRS, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: Gray hairs %crowd out the black Last Line: Wrinkles %provide no armor. %I still quiver %to anyone's dart Subject(s): Jews - Women GREENHORN COMES, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: When a greenhorn turns up Last Line: Across the hills and dales of kentucky Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky GREET ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women GRIEF-STRICKEN HEART, by S. SHENKER Poem Source First Line: Why is my heart so wrenched with grief Last Line: Perhaps because the time has come %for kaddish to be said Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GRODSKY THE COBBLER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Near the delmar loop in st. Louis Last Line: Shoes he maintains nonetheless, %in case he needs to make another hasty escape Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoes GROWING UP, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: I packed all those important pieces Last Line: Through all these years of growing %and fallng back Subject(s): Jews - Women GUIDE ME FROM THIS SAFE HARBOR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The heroes of our people are not always law-givers Last Line: Thought of you pulls me from my safe drift %toward the future. Once more I hunger Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews GULF ENCOUNTER, by LUCY DEUTSCH Poem Source First Line: The children in tel aviv are trapped Last Line: And repeat themselves with hussein %I ask you Subject(s): Education; Jews GULL HOUSE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Those stilts have held their own Last Line: Yellow eyes, they own Subject(s): Jews - United States GUSTAV GOTTHEIL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God healed him while he slept Last Line: Chant kaddish at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Spiritual Healing; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Faith-cure GYPSY SONG, by DAVID BEIGELMAN Poem Source First Line: The night is dark, %as dark as ink Last Line: We go unfed: %no crust of bread Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HABAKKUK'S PRAYER, by WILLIAM BROOME Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet though the fig-tree should no burden bear Last Line: The everlasting god, the mighty king of kings. Subject(s): Jews; Prayer; Judaism HAD MY MOTHER LIVED, by ISRAEL EMIOT Poem Source First Line: Had my mother lived, by now she'd surely be Last Line: And off we'd wander to her golden land Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HAGAR, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone in the wilderness, her child and she Last Line: To cheer the outcast in the desert bare. Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Bible; Hagar; Jews; Judaism HAGAR, THE SECOND MORNING: A MIDRASH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Where are we? My ishmael sings Subject(s): Jews - Women HAJ, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Toward evening, the sun has fired Last Line: Across the field, the water pipes are singing Subject(s): Jews - Women HALLO, HALLO, by CECILE LOW Poem Source First Line: Hallo, reverend mother? Hallo! Last Line: My mirele, so long till then Subject(s): Jews - Women HANDS: ABRAHAM KUNSTLER, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY Poem Source First Line: Cursed with a body Last Line: Above the flower vase original. %the effect greatly pleases me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HANUKKAH, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This season for us, the jews Last Line: Drop of fuel enough to leap from Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. Subject(s): Hanukkah; Jews HARBACH 1944, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: At all times I see them Last Line: Its gates flung savagely back, %death gapes to its hinges Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii HARDEST WORK OF ALL, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: And one week later Last Line: The beat of both hearts - saying %not yet - not yet Subject(s): Jews - Women HARK, THE VOICE OF MY BELOVED KNOCKETH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women HAROLD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the west comes harold, with a bitter smile Last Line: And six-cent stamp for home Subject(s): Hospitals; Jews; Racism; Judaism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HAROLD, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the west comes harold, with a bitter smile Last Line: For rent, food, gas to keep a car %and six-cent stamp for home Subject(s): Hospitals; Jews; Racism HARRY LENGA: 1. KOZIENICE, POLAND 1939, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: We had a rabbi which was named the kozienicer rabbi Last Line: And they light it, and the fire was burning, %and they told them to dance and sing happy songs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HARRY LENGA: 2. DEPARTURE 1940, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: My mother she won't leave her mother Last Line: Then she kissed me goodbye. %it was the second night of sukkoth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HARRY LENGA: 3. AUSCHWITZ, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: Fourteen hours, and suddenly Last Line: And they're laughing. For so long we never stopped laughing.%we see we're alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HARRY LENGA: 4. EBENSEE, AUSTRIA, MAY, 1945, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: The ones what gave up - it's like a signal to their bodies Last Line: The jews, in such weak voices, skeletons of jews from everywhere, %singing hatikvah Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HATCHET LEAPS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: On a black road between dark houses Last Line: Yes, see, he floats! He flies gracefully, %held by the pulse of the couple's brazen dance Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HATIKVAH-A SONG OF HOPE, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O while within a jewish breast Last Line: "with israel's last son!""—" Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Zionism; Optimism; Judaism HAUNTING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all she remembered at the end Last Line: At my [or, your] daughter with her eyes? Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Daughters; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine HAVDALA OF RABBI AKIBA, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Jews HE OF PRAYER, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: Hidden in the ancient talmud Last Line: By sandalphon—him of prayer. Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Prayer; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism HE WAS LUCKY, by ANNA SWIR Poem Source First Line: The old man %leaves his house, carries books Last Line: Under him he feels %the books Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 HE WEARS OLD SOCKS, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source Last Line: Not knowing %where the others lie Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HE WHOSE LOCKS ARE BLACK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women HEADING EAST, by DAVI WALDERS Poem Source First Line: This land I've so long known and loved Last Line: Bear witness ... Remember ... Treblinka Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HEALER, by ROCHELLE SHAPIRO NATT Poem Source First Line: Mama tells me %how grandmother raised her ten children Last Line: As if it doesn't hurt at all Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women HEARING OF REAGAN'S TRIP TO BITBURG, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As maples turn the size of babies' hands Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HEARTBEAT, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: All that long time Last Line: Now it's you Subject(s): Jews - Women HEBREW CRADLE SONG, by EZEKIEL LEAVITT Poem Text First Line: Night has on the earth descended Last Line: That thy mother used to tell! Subject(s): Bible; Hebrew Language; Jews; Singing & Singers; Judaism; Songs HEBREW MELODY, by MRS. JAMES GORDEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the hall of our fathers in anguish we fled Last Line: Will welcome the exile to siloa's fountain? Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jeremiah (bible); Jews; Judaism HEBREW MOTHER, by BARBARA MILLER MACANDREW Poem Source First Line: Within our palace-gates another king Subject(s): Jews; Mothers HEBREWS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Lest there be any fornicator or profaner' Last Line: Like esau, and refused to sell his birthright Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews HEBRON; THE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when the coveted blessing is once gained Last Line: The pupil of pure love is quick to learn. Subject(s): Christianity; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Jews; Judaism HEINE, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God said: 'I will make a poet' Last Line: Hush, draw close and hear him sing! Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism HEINE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor life nor death had any peace for thee Last Line: George sylvester viereck. Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism HEINRICH HEINE, by LUDWIG LEWISOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of a mystic race, he came Last Line: The child of a diviner will. Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism HEIRLOOM, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father bequeathed me no wide estates Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Jews; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism HEIRLOOM, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father bequeathed me no wide estates Last Line: Miracle, I turned a leaf and found %a white hair fallen from my father's beard Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Jews HER EARRINGS, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: Daughters of sarah Last Line: While the lords of our universe run things %and we try to get them to look Subject(s): Jews - Women HER EYES TELL ME, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Pigeons see me as a five foot five Last Line: Her eyes tell me a mother must nest %on any rock Subject(s): Jews - Women HERITAGE, by HAYIM GOURI Poem Source First Line: The ram came last of all. And abraham Last Line: They are born with a knife in their hearts Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HEROD'S LAMENT FOR MARIAMNE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mariamne! Now for thee Last Line: Which unconsumed are still consuming! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.); Jews; Judaism HERR CAPTAIN, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I whispered as he came through the gate Last Line: He brings me soap %his boots are shiny %not like the others who arrive from the fields %crusted over Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HERR CLEMENT OF BUENOS AIRES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: You scrawny, gaunt, arrogant bastard Last Line: Into which we'll cast your ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HIDING, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: It was all so long ago Last Line: That we are free, %free to be Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HIGH HOLY DAYS, by JANE SHORE Poem Source First Line: It was hot. A size too large Last Line: Spat like jonah from the whale %back into the jew-hating world Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur HILLEL AND HIS GUEST; A TALMUDIC LEGEND, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hillel, the gentle, the beloved sage Last Line: "to-morrow—may it not have fled away?" Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Clergy; Hillel (jewish Sage); Jews; Legends; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism HIMMLER AT AUSCHWITZ, 1942, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: A dim image of heinrich himmler Last Line: Contemplating the colossal possibilities of his revelation Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Himmler, Heinrich (1900-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HINDENBURG, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: This early showpiece of the thousand Last Line: Before, behind, and in each direction, %stretching for far more than a thousand years Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HINTS OF HOLOCAUST, by THOMAS JOHN CARLISLE Poem Source First Line: The partitioning of the levite's concubine Last Line: For tolerating liquidation or incineration %of any of god's persecuted children Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women - Bible HIS DAUGHTER IN SHUL, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: His daughter slips from his lap, sidles along the bench Last Line: She has years to learn real reasons for prayer Subject(s): Jews; Medicine HIS MOTHER STERPPED ABOUT HER KITCHEN, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Jews; Friendship; Bullies; Jobs; Relatives; Judaism 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 HIS SON'S / A JEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I thought %you knew Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jews HISTORY, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I came to a field Last Line: Honor loss let me see memory's %darkest web Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HISTORY, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But in the myth, at the beginning of our world Last Line: And if she's naked now, then wat is there to take off %next?%and then what will love do? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HISTORY AND REALITY, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Escaped from germany Last Line: When - outside - truth was only words Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HISTORY OF LITERATURE. POETS, by LEV HAKAK Poem Source First Line: The few different and innocent Last Line: Before they're worn out by the burden of kids and taxes Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews HOLLOW COST, by JOAN JOBE SMITH Poem Source First Line: My mother told me about the hollow cost Last Line: Than all the stars in the sky %on a clear, winter night Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And about burning people - Last Line: A rapid, persistent / chemical / reaction Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism HOLOCAUST, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And about burning people - Last Line: Chemical %reaction Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST 1944, by ANNE RANASINGHE Poem Source First Line: I do not know %in what strange far off earth they buried you Last Line: Blessed be the lord Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST TORAH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The scroll is cloaked in glass Last Line: Someday grandpa daniel %will whisper once again Subject(s): Jews; Medicine HOLOCAUST, SELS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the second world war began Last Line: He was gone in the woods Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST, SELS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, among the transports, was one with children - two freight cars full Last Line: And then the child who had been so gay %burst into tears Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLOCAUST, SELS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jews from holland, france, and hungary, and later from greece Last Line: And there were two pyres of bodies burning all the time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOLY CROSS DAY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fee, fawm, fum! Bubble and squeak! Last Line: "south, east, and on to the pleasant land!" Subject(s): Catholics; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Judaism HOLY GRANDMOTHERS IN JERUSALEM, by ESTHER RAAB Poem Source First Line: Holy grandmothers in jerusalem, %may your virtue protect me Last Line: The aroma of sabbath candles and naphthaline Variant Title(s): Holy Grandmothers In Jerusalem Subject(s): Jews - Women HOLY SONNET: 11, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spit in my face you jews, and pierce my side Last Line: Hee might be weake enough to suffer woe. Variant Title(s): To E. Of D. With Six Holy Sonnets: 7 Subject(s): Crucifixion; Jews; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Judaism HOME, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: When josh led the family into Last Line: That one was jake Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky HOME MOVIE OF POLAND, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: A picnic table. The family assembles Last Line: Unreal as the light %that blinks in our eyes after hours of darkness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOMELESS, by JOAN JOFFE HALL Poem Source First Line: At a jewish wedding Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 HOPE, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Edith b__ and her mother on a sunday afaaternoon. The Last Line: Voice, I hope I shall come to know you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HOPE AND FAITH, by ISAAC LEIBUSH PERETZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope! Not distant is the springtime Last Line: Will arise above our graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Perets, Yitskhok Leibush; Peretz, Isaac Loeb Subject(s): Jews; Life; Spring; Judaism HOUSEGUEST, by MICHELLE BENDER Poem Source First Line: Death lives in our house Last Line: We must %turn down the sheet Subject(s): Jews - Women HOUSEHOLD RULES. FARWELL AVENUE, CHICAGO, 1946, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: She turns onions into zeros on the cutting board Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews HOUSEWIFE, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: What can be wrong Last Line: Do others feel like this? Where do they go? Subject(s): Housewives; Jews - Women HOUSING SHORTAGE, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: I tried to live small Last Line: And a landscape, unbounded %and vast in abandon. %you too dreaming the same Subject(s): Jews - Women HOW CAN I SEE YOU, LOVE, by DAVID VOGEL Poem Source Last Line: As my father once guided me %to the house of prayer Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW COOL, HOW VELVET-GREEN, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How cool, how velvet - green %the moss was in those polish woods Last Line: No more than cataracts %on the blind eyes of god Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW EARLY FALL CAME THIS YEAR, by JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Between the rows %of tomato plants Last Line: Shaping a world out of %lightning and ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW LONG, O LORD?, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Text First Line: In the weary night they come to me Last Line: But why—jehovah knows. Subject(s): Faith; Jews; Worship; Belief; Creed; Judaism HOW LONG?, by JUHAD HA-LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long wilt thou in childhood's slumber lie? Last Line: Of souls that seek god's goodness evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Judah Ha-levi Subject(s): Aging; God; Jews; Youth; Judaism HOW THEY KILLED MY GRANDMOTHER, by BORIS ABRAMOVICH SLUTSKY Poem Source First Line: How did they kill my grandmother? Last Line: That's how they did it to her Alternate Author Name(s): Slutzky, Boris Abramovich Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW TO READ HOLOCAUST POEMS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The sun beats down Last Line: Only one's hunger %to waken Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HOW?, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: How will you fill your goblet Last Line: Like a mole, a mole Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HUBRIS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loom is computerized Last Line: Where will they hide him %when the romans come? Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices HUGH OF LINCOLN (SHOWING THE CRUELTY OF A JEW'S DAUGHTER), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A' the boys of merry lincoln Last Line: Sir adam's day begun Variant Title(s): Hugh Of Lincoln And The Jew's Daughter Subject(s): Jews;murder; Judaism HUNGARIAN MEDICAL STUDENT: 1928, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: Perhaps he is of medium height Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Medical Students HUNGARIAN MISSION, by RUTH LISA SCHECHTER Poem Source First Line: I forged I.D.'s to rescue jews Last Line: I passed out after shouting: 'I have been to russia!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews HUNGER, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Hunger started to gnaw at him Last Line: And thomas obeyed. He went Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky HYMN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo where a crowd of pilgrims toil Last Line: And your reward is sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Jews; Zionism; Judaism HYMN, by PENINA MOISE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I weep not now as once I wept Last Line: Eternal life bestoweth Subject(s): Jews HYMN FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE SABBATH, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May he who sets the holy and profane Last Line: And as the stars of night. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday HYMN OF GLORY, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet hymns and songs will I indite Last Line: For thou art all my soul's delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Worship; Judaism HYMN OF UNITY, by KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall narrate thy wonders wrought of old? Last Line: Who shall narrate? Subject(s): Angels; Jews; Peace; Togetherness; Judaism I AM A STAR, by INGE AUERBACHER Poem Source First Line: Only 'special' children wear a star Last Line: No-one can break my spirit or will! I am a star! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I AM BABI YAR, by GINGER PORTER Poem Source First Line: My gold six-pointer star Last Line: A sorrowful spirit, %a tesatimonial. %I am babi yar Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I AM FORTUNATE IN A MEMORY OF SOUNDS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Trains in the stockyard answer the piano Last Line: With your shoes dropping in the doorway Subject(s): Jews - United States I AM LYING IN THIS COFFIN, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I am lying in this coffin %as I would lie Last Line: My speech %still moves into song Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I AM PROUD OF YOU., by CHANA SAFRAN Poem Source Last Line: You are climbing higher, higher %and your torch lights up the night Subject(s): Jews - Women I AM THE BABE OF JOSEPH STALIN'S DAUGHTER: DEDICATION, by ROCHELLE OWENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Din / who am I floating Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism I AM THIRSTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I AWAIT YOU, by JACOB DANIEL-LEVITZ Poem Source First Line: As a pious jew %awaits messiah Last Line: Does life have, %life without you? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I BELIEVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I believe in the sun Last Line: I believe in god %though he is %silent Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I CANNOT SWIM., by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It was almost dark Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women I DID NOT KNOW, BUT I REMEMBER, by TAMARA FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I can hear the clatter of the cattle cars Last Line: A part of me is dead and buried %in the grave of millions Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I DID NOT MANAGE TO SAVE, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source Last Line: Even if I am too late Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I DO NOT WANT AN OLD MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I DREAMED HIM HOMEWARD, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: He came to say good-bye Last Line: No entry papers needed %anymore Subject(s): Jews - Women I FEEL LIKE SAYING A PRAYER, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I feel like saying a prayer -- but to whom? Last Line: Senseless, I begin to babble %until dawn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I FEEL SAD FOR YOU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I HAVE A GARMENT, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a garment which is like a sieve Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism I HEAR THAT THE AXE HAS FLOWERED, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I hear that the bread which looks at him Last Line: I hear that they call life %our only refuge Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I KEEP FORGETTING, by LILY BRETT Poem Source Last Line: What a good memory %you have %people tell me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I KNOW ABOUT THE WOMAN WHO SITS AND WAITS., by JUDITH ROSE Poem Source Last Line: Who hopes for her daughter %not %to sit and wait Subject(s): Jews - Women I KNOW NOT YOUR WAYS., by MALKA HEIFETZ TUSSMAN Poem Source Last Line: I am afraid of the dark Subject(s): Jews - Women I LIVE ON THE WEST SIDE, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I live on the west side, %the sun sets here Last Line: Venus? %it's a frozen tear of my people Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I MUST TELL THE STORY, by EMILY BORENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: I press my face to the pane of death to witness Last Line: The single long note of the shofar sounding in the houses %of the dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I NEVER KNEW I WAS JEWISH, by IRENE RETI Poem Source First Line: My mother, was born jewish Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I NEVER THINK OF MYSELF AS WAITING FOR YOU., by MERLE FELD Poem Source Last Line: Why you've left me here %alone Subject(s): Jews - Women I REMEMBER COMING INTO WARSAW, A CHILD, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Out of sheer, sunlit countryside Last Line: And willing their sounding and resounding remains Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Warsaw Ghetto I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were snakes in the tent Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Shoah; Judaism I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were snakes in the tent Last Line: Appeared mysteriously, %tattooed on your arm Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine I SAW HIM WALKING ALONE SLOWLY AT NIGHT, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jews; Youth; Courage; Judaism; Valor; Bravery I SAW MY FATHER DROWNING, by DAVID VOGEL Poem Source Last Line: Under the sky's canopy &studded with silver Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I SHALL BEGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I SHALL BEGIN TO SING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I SHALL BEGIN WITH THE NAME OF GOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I THANK MY LORD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I USED TO HAVE A FRIEND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I VOW!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I WAKE FROM A DREAM OF KILLING HITLER, by MARK NEPO Poem Source First Line: I have no numbers on my forearm Last Line: Old prayers like knuckles broken %old prayers like bone resin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I WAS FOUR IN DOTTED, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swiss summer pajamas %my face a blotch of Last Line: Me as so few ever %have since as if %not to lose more Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women I WAS NOT PRIVILEGED, by AARON ZEITLIN Poem Source First Line: I left betimes, and god protected me Last Line: Nor have I the capacity to lose my mind Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I WAS NOT THERE, by KAREN GERSHON Poem Source First Line: The morning they set out from home Last Line: It would have made no difference Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I WAS ONCE A BOY, by RAZEL LEBENSBOIM Poem Source First Line: I was once a boy, a stripling Last Line: And wild tales about the jews Subject(s): Jews; Roman Empire; Socrates (470-399 B.c.) I WASN€™T ONE OF THE SIX MILLION: AND WHAT IS MY LIFE SPAN? OPEN CLOSED OPEN, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I believe with perfect faith that at this very moment Subject(s): Aging; Jews; Judaism I WENT DOWN TO THE CREEK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 I YEARN, by LERKE ROSENBLUM Poem Source First Line: I yearn for the laugh, free and open Last Line: To find myself free on the earth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I'D LIKE TO JUDGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women I'D LIKE TO STOP, by RACHEL H. KORN Poem Source First Line: Someday I'd like %to stop at a house Last Line: Only me %and my woe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I'LL FIND MY SELF-BELIEF IN A DUSTPUFF OF WONDER, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And in maidanek woods %finished it off with a few shots Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I'M CHUGGING INTO FRANCE, by JULIA STEIN Poem Source First Line: How the jewish children sang %on the train chugging into france Last Line: Bin bam bin bam bin bam Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I, THE SURVIVOR, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: I know of course, it's simply luck Last Line: And I hated myself Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I. L. PERETZ AND BONTSHE SHVAIG IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, by ELIEZER GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: At twilight, when the final rays are shed Last Line: She found a yiddish poet - setting down the dream he had Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews I.O.B.B. POEM: 47TH ANNIVERSARY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The perfume of numberless roses Last Line: Of brotherly friendship and love. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Independent Order B'nai Brith; Jews; Love; Poetry & Poets; B'nai Brith; Judaism ICON, by EPHIM FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Surely those eyes are of marble Last Line: And millions of aryan children %will contemplate his eyes, his dispassionate hands, his monocle Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IDA STRAUS, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wonder at, we praise your life Last Line: How small are we; how great are you! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Love; Praise; Dead, The; Judaism IDENTIFICATIONS, by PERETZ KAMINSKY Poem Source First Line: From shadows such as these I shape my songs Last Line: They sound like looming thunder in my head, %whispering the names of our sixmillion dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IF, by EDWARD BOND Poem Source First Line: If auschwitz had been in hampshire Last Line: Or cease to be human Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IF, by ROSE GUTMAN-JASNY Poem Source First Line: If another flood should come Last Line: You'll conduct the sabbath for desert winds %and smite the sea with thunder for its sins Subject(s): Jews - Women IF NO TRACE OF MY PEOPLE SHALL BE FOUND, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: If no trace of my people shall be found Last Line: Don't hear the shot I am about to take Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IMAGE OF SPEECH AT SINAI, by ELEAZER BEN JUDAH Poem Source First Line: The creator lowered fire on the mountain great glorious magnificent Last Line: Fire %darkness Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism IMMERSION, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound is not human Last Line: Light from the wooden grille at the window %arranges its petals on the stone Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Drowning; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine IMMIGRANT, by LINDA WATSKIN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's hands Last Line: My head between her breasts %and listen Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Wit & Humor; Race Awareness; Grief; Jews; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism IN A DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN BIALYSTOK'S GHETTO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In bialystok's gray ghetto, a cry of anguish wakes - Last Line: How long before they're back?' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN BLACK RAIN, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Some nights only leaves talk Last Line: Forty years have scattered %but, in black rain, you burn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN CALIFORNIA I HEARD, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In california I heard %the lament of the mourning - dove Last Line: I heard the lament %of a dove Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN EXILE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight is here, soft breezes bow the grass Last Line: And the broad prairie melts in mist of tears. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Judaism IN EXILE, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, with the wand'rer's staff in hand Last Line: Lo, there will cease the tyrant's rod. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Wandering & Wanderers; Zionism; Judaism IN HER DIARY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zofia nalkowska writes in her diary on april 14, %1943, when the germans were Last Line: Scream of horror comes from, the defense of the %peculiar place of man begins Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN HIDING, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Once, in hiding, we went open Last Line: A lonely sleigh Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Sanctuaries IN LIEU OF LETTERS, by SHARON CAMERON Poem Source First Line: Two days a week I teach. I try Last Line: Or startle at the shadows that lengthen by my side Subject(s): Jews - Women IN MEMORIAM, NINTH OF AB, by BEN AVROM Poem Text First Line: And all is lost! Thy valiant sons are dead Last Line: And in thy glory, make our glory rise! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Memory; Slavery; Dead, The; Judaism; Serfs IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young jew. The weed of their hatred Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Anti-semitism; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young jew. The weed of their hatred Last Line: Raining its sound %from the wide sky Subject(s): Jews; Russia IN MEMORY OF AARON, MURDERED GRANDFATHER, by SEYMOUR MAYNE Poem Source First Line: He who shot my maternal grandfather, aaron Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN MEMORY OF JANUSZ KORCZAK, by JERZY FICOWSKI Poem Source First Line: What did the old doctor do Last Line: That was how fast they had to go grey as ash Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN MY OWN NIGHTMARES, by MARI ALSCHULER Poem Source First Line: I stand out in each nightmare Last Line: All angles. %a swastika turning %as you dream Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN MYSTERY VEILED, by MAMIE OZBURN ODUM Poem Text First Line: Must our halls of heaven fling wide Last Line: To lose our birthright and our heritage. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mystery; Torture; Shoah; Judaism IN PRAG, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yon hauf-daith, %bloatit wi oor skookit virr Last Line: Doon whilk we swam, jist twa swevins, ringin %agin thi time,doon thi squers Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic; Scottish Translations IN PRAGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That half-death Last Line: Against time, in the squares Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic IN PRAGUE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half of death %suckled along with our life Last Line: Tolling %against time, on the sqaures Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prague, Czech Republic IN RE SOLOMON WARSHAWER, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On wodin's day, sixth of december,thirty-nine Last Line: And further deponent saith not. Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE CHILDREN OF IZIEU, by ARLENE MAASS Poem Source First Line: French cognac 1944 is death Last Line: The children of izieu %gathered unto their fathers Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN SAXONY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little girl with blond braids Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism IN SAXONY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little girl with blond braids Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 SOME OF THE BUNKS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: And some of their eyes wree %closed and that was worse Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN TERRIBLE DAYS, by CHANA SAFRAN Poem Source First Line: My singing was born during terrible days - Last Line: And lift the great legacy high! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THAT DAY, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Absalom! Absalom! Last Line: Absalom, absalom. Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Absalom; Jews; Judaism IN THE ABSENCE OF YELLOW, by REVA SHARON Poem Source First Line: It is summer and it is quiet Last Line: Here in terezin %wings the color of rust %are fluttering Subject(s): Death - Children; Jews IN THE BEGINNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he wakes, he turns Last Line: Who she is, or %what he lost Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nature; Palestine; Relationships IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Last Line: The footsteps die was he dies Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Concentration Camps; Shoah; Judaism IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE CHILDREN'S HOME, by AVROM ZAK Poem Source First Line: Children in little white camp - beds Last Line: Mothers in ovens - cold ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE DUNGEON, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: As always: the gloom wants to smother me quite Last Line: To thrust at a throat less than thirty years old Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE END-OF-SUMMER LIGHT, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: My heart, my tired heart, sings elegies Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky IN THE FOREST, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are lit Subject(s): Jews; Autumn; Judaism; Fall IN THE HEAVEN OF NIGHT, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: Chagall's villages float across the room Last Line: That floats across the room %and curls in the heaven of night Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE HOUR OF NEED, by LETO Poem Text First Line: D'ye see that shop at the corner, with the three balls Last Line: There! That's the short of it, my lad,—and every word is true! Subject(s): Jews; Kindness; Judaism IN THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN QUEENS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stone's throw from my uncle's grave Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Graveyards; Judaism IN THE JEWISH CEMETERY IN QUEENS, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stone's throw from my uncle's grave Last Line: On my father's fresh stone, I leave a stone Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews IN THE JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewish mystical religion, the bodies flying Subject(s): Mysticism – Judaism; Jews IN THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE AT NEWPORT, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the noises of the busy town Last Line: Before the mystery of death and god. Subject(s): Jews; Newport, Rhode Island; Synagogues; 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 MIDST OF LIFE, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: After the end of the world Last Line: It was a voice of another man Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IN THE NAME OF GOD I SHALL BEGIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "glows once more in the russian sky, the blood" Last Line: "my brother, jesus of nazareth" Subject(s): Catholics;jesus Christ;jews;russia; Roman Catholics;catholicism;judaism;soviet Union;russians IN THE NAME OF THE PROPHET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women IN THE NEW LAND OF CANAAN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: On a fresh, clear, summer day Last Line: And sees in everything the hand of god Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky IN THE OLD JEWISH CEMETERY, PRAGUE, 1970, by EDWARD LOWBURY Poem Source First Line: The headstones, like a petrified congregation Last Line: In tune with the sentence that confines %gentile and jew to the ghetto of this world Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Prague, Czech Republic IN THE TIME OF THE PERSECUTION, by LEONARD AARONSON Poem Source First Line: Down in the river the fishes are rising Last Line: For the sake of our morrow, of europe's to-morrow Subject(s): Jews; Religion; World War Ii IN THIS AMPHITHEATRE, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: In this amphitheatre Last Line: Once again as night Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape IN THIS GALAXY FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Are we jews sentenced to stay Last Line: Under the hechsher %of home-grown hachamim Subject(s): Jews - Women IN YOUR DOUGH KITCHEN, by KAREN NEUBERG Poem Source First Line: They say you hid in the trunk of a tree Last Line: I knew you were dying. %I knew that I would never know Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IN-LAWS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: It was a sunny afternoon Last Line: The world is not a wanton world, my young man Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky IN-LAWS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Old josh, with a cigar in his mouth Last Line: Good night, neighbor Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky INCANTATORY CHANT, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: On my own out here Last Line: That mercy and peace are yet worshiped elsewhere Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INDEPENDENCE DAY: EUREKA, by CORNEL ADAM LENGYEL Poem Source First Line: Celebrating a fourth of july in eureka Last Line: Leafless among the rocks, still fed by a spring of light, %israel shall send green shoots to the sun Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INFLUENCE COMING INTO PLAY: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a sky the color of pea soup Last Line: After the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes Subject(s): Jews - Women INNOCENCE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He ran the course and as he ran he grew Last Line: As melting quietly by his boots it fell Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Innocence; Jews INNOCENT DAUGHTER OF KINGS I DESIRE, by HAZMAG (SA'ID) Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women INNSBRUCK: ON THE GOETHE WAY, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: In the snowmelt of postwar austria Last Line: Domed above them, the sky is gold-tooth %yellow, fragile as an infant's skull Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INSCRIPTIONS: 1944-1956, SELECTION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the strong, sweetness; Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Anti-semitism INSCRIPTIONS: 1944-1956, SELS., by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the strong, sweetness; Last Line: And out of these who met only with hate, %a people of love, a compassionate people Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INTERROGATION, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Dogs peeing. O pavlova: in the mausoleum Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INTOLERANCE, by RAY TRUM NATHAN Poem Text First Line: Thou canst have no other god but mine Last Line: My god, and mine's alone divine. Subject(s): Jews; Prejudice; Judaism; Bias; Intolerance INVISIBLE, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: It was %essential Last Line: Didn't %exist Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews INVOCATION TO KALI: 3. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Have we managed to fade them out like god? Last Line: Walked the pavane of death in our new shoes, %sweated with anguish and remembered god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mythology; Women IRT AT RUSH HOUR, by CHRISTOPHER MILLIS Poem Source First Line: They must have died like this at auschwitz Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews IS IT TRUE?, by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON Poem Text First Line: Said the child of the bright yellow hair Last Line: "like elsie's—and said: ""I'm a jew." Subject(s): Catholics; Children; History; Jesus Christ; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Childhood; Historians; Judaism IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: His country's treasure and his people's pride Subject(s): "jews;memory;montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885);" Judaism ISAAC AND MAE (LOS ANGELES, 1955), by LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN Poem Source First Line: You are perfect in all ways, but one Last Line: The silence of the house, listening to the wind shriek once, then become calm Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Marriage ISAAC M. WISE, by WALTER HURT Poem Text First Line: He came into the camp of creed Last Line: To lay upon his hallowed tomb. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Jews; Memory; Wise, Isaac Mayer (1819-1900); Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism ISHMAEL FISHMAN, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: What manner of obscene beasts are these horrific nightmares Last Line: With an answer to the riddle of the leviathan's witness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ISLANDS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm as a good wife Last Line: Astonished lovers whispering, %what happens next? Subject(s): Arabs; Islands; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sea ISRAEL, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by jabbok the patriarch waited Last Line: And mightily shalt thou prevail. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism ISRAEL, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Singer of hymns, by sinai who adored Subject(s): Jews; Religion 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 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 COLUMBIA, by JOHN MCCABE Poem Text First Line: O glory of an elder age! Last Line: As herald of the new world's morn. Subject(s): Exiles; Hebrew Language; Jews; Right To Asylum; Judaism ISRAEL AND HELLAS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes wonder of the grecian men Last Line: From its great secular heart the readier current drew. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Greece; Jews; Greeks; Judaism 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 IN RUSSIA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art but one! O god to whom we bow Last Line: "father! Forgive them!" Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians 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 GOD, by LAWRENCE COHEN Poem Text First Line: No longer the children of zion need weep Last Line: "he is one, is our god; he is one, is our lord." Subject(s): God; Jews; Zionism; 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 HYMAN HURWITZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, israel! Sons of israel, mourn! Last Line: Be thou their comforter, o god! Subject(s): Jews; Lament; Judaism 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 ISRAEL: 2, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since potiphar made you his overseer Last Line: Jews; russia; anti-semitism; Subject(s): Jews 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 ISRAELITE GRAVEYARD, by ISRAEL ZEITLIN Poem Source First Line: Deaf to the hurly-burly of the street Subject(s): Jews IT'S INDIAN SUMMER, by ANNE CHERNER WHITEHOUSE Poem Source First Line: It's indian summer, more beautiful than I can remember Last Line: And black mounds of coal turned to dust in the cellar Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women IT'S TWILIGHT TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women ITALIAN SONNET, by IMMANUEL OF ROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love knows neither law nor Alternate Author Name(s): Immanuel Ben Solomon Of Rome; Immanuel Di Roma Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism JABOTINSKY STREET; FOR ROBERT FRIEND, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: For the man who nurses %twelve cats, one without claws Last Line: Plant them in a pot outside his window and pray %things will not stop blooming Subject(s): Jews - Women JACOB, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Clean-cut, firmly built, supple Last Line: Until vivian came into his life Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky JACOB'S DREAM, by S. D. Poem Text First Line: Oh, pilgrim, halting on the rock-strewn sod Last Line: The lord is near when thou dost need him most. Subject(s): God; Jacob (bible); 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 JAKE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: A young duckling pipped out of the egg Last Line: And the mother keeps silent, hears and does not speak Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky JANUSZ KORCZAK, by BELLA DIZHUR Poem Source First Line: I did not grow up on narrow ghetto streets Last Line: I want it to have happened %on an earth cleansed of evil Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JAWEH AND ALLAH BATTLE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jaweh with atom bomb Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism JEHUDA BEN HALEVY: A FRAGMENT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If, jerusalem, I ever Last Line: Can but kill, they cannot judge us Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141) JEHUDA HALEVI'S SONGS TO ZION, SELECTION, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart in the east Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism JENNA, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: What does one voice matter more or less? Last Line: If a giving lord exits-his name be cursed Subject(s): Jews; Medicine JENNY'S CHAIR, by BETH A. SPIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Everybody else calls their mother's mom grandma Last Line: And in her language that means happiness Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: There is a lonely mountain-top Last Line: The voice of her they rue! Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Jephthah (bible); Jews; Women; Judaism JEREMIAH, THE PATRIOT, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say, 'the man is false, and falls away' Last Line: In his seer's weakness ye shall see his power. Subject(s): Jeremiah (bible); Jews; Judaism JERUSALEM, by JOHN KEBBLE HERVEY Poem Text First Line: The ancient of cities!-the lady of nations! Last Line: And the streams flowing backward to zion again! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism JERUSALEM, by P. C. L. Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! Jerus'lem! Thy glories have fled Last Line: In the faith of his word, and the might of his arm. Subject(s): Faith; Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Praise; War; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Judaism JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN : 77. JOSHUA AT SCHECHEM, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hebrews are too snug in ur Last Line: Talking hebrew in every language under the sun Subject(s): Jews - Exodus From Egypt JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 97., by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men of war spoke: your hand against mine Subject(s): Jews; Marx, Karl (1818-1883); Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677); David (d. 962 B.c.); Judaism JESSE SELIGMAN, by NOAH DAVIS Poem Text First Line: His was another race than mine Last Line: That israel's god is thine and mine. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Jews; Judaism JEW, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The name is immortal but only the name, for the rest Subject(s): Jews; Judaism JEW AND GENTILE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Severe, cutting north winds Last Line: Of the old kentucky home and old glory Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky JEW IN A NEW SUIT, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: (ice man) %there he goes, the old man selling ice Last Line: It's your sweet fruit in my bitter mouth Subject(s): Jews - United States JEW MARINE, by FERNAND ROQUEPLAN Poem Source First Line: Man, I thought I'd be a boot forever! I just Last Line: Brace & they thought I'd been shot, too. I said a bland grace Subject(s): Jews; Marines - United States JEW'S LOVE FOR LANGUAGE, by CHAIA ZBLOCKI HELLER Poem Source First Line: You convert, you expel, %you exterminate Last Line: The bangings of books, %the clatter of pearls Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEWESS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dark-browed daughter of the sun Last Line: Tis god's, not russia's, here to say. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Jews - Women; Right To Asylum; Judaism JEWESS, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Doff your veil, o jewess! Doff it Last Line: Flowing out of true repentance? Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews JEWISH, by HARVEY M. PLOTNICK Poem Source First Line: My skin is white, but my name is foreign, a dark reflection Last Line: And sometimes you sudder as I stir in mass graves Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Jews; Marginality, Social JEWISH BABY IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, 1941, by LEATRICE H. LIFSHITZ Poem Source First Line: To see her gain, %the little baby Last Line: So little %so much Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEWISH BALLAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mother, I want to go Last Line: If mine are really worse, %with my hands I'll kill myself Subject(s): Jews JEWISH BRIDE, by PAUL DURCAN Poem Source First Line: At the black canvas of estrangement Subject(s): Erotic Love; Jews; Love; Religious Discrimination JEWISH CHILD, by CHANEH HAITIN Poem Source First Line: In a lithuanian town %there's a house that stands alone Last Line: To the mercy of the nile, %she has left her only child Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a low wall, falling away Subject(s): Jews; Cemeteries; Italy; Judaism; Graveyards; Italians JEWISH HYMN IN BABYLON, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God of the thunder! From whose cloudy seat Last Line: Where o'er the cherub-seated god full blazed the irradiate dome. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology JEWISH LULLABY, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My harp is on the willow-tree Last Line: Judea's fainting soul! Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Singing & Singers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Songs JEWISH MAIN STREET, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And first, the lamp-posts whose burning match-heads Last Line: Tomorrow some angry potentate %shall declare null and void Subject(s): Jews JEWISH MAY, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: May has come from out the showers Last Line: Still upon the ruined hearth! Subject(s): Jews; May (month) JEWISH MOUTHS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Don't you see, it iss the mouth Last Line: Mouths bathed in acid scalded %by knowledge of god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JEWISH SINGLES EVENT, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: Here are those who are challenged by Last Line: Their branded arms embrace us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JEWISH WOMAN, by GERTRUD KOLMAR Poem Source First Line: I am a stranger Last Line: Its cities: I am greatest. I am all Subject(s): Jews JEWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pride and humiliation hand in hand Last Line: They saw reflected in the coming time Subject(s): Jews;memory;tradition; Judaism JEWS IN HELL, by ISAAC GOLDEMBERG Poem Source First Line: As the story goes %the jews bought for themselves Last Line: Kafka tilts his telescope %and bursts out laughing Subject(s): Jews JEWS THAT WE ARE, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: March 1979 and I am watching nazis Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JOB'S CONFESSION, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou canst accomplish all things, lord of might Last Line: Man is not made to question, but adore. Subject(s): Jews; Job (bible); Judaism JOB'S WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She has to pity him after what happened Last Line: At the unrelenting sky Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine JOCHANAN HAKKADOSH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This now, this other story makes amends Last Line: Schiphaz, on bendimir, in farzistan! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism JOHN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Women, whiskey, horses Last Line: Of full blown flowers, %of fields, and of a new day Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky JOHN JONES: 4. UP THE SPOUT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hi! Just you drop that! Stop, I say! Last Line: Of jewry! Just in time! Subject(s): God; Jews; Sea; Judaism; Ocean JONAH'S PROMISE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I'm supposed to sit with the coffin for an hour and read psalms Last Line: Unto you will I sing praises Subject(s): Jews - United States JONATHAN'S SONG, by OWEN DODSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am part of this Last Line: The numbered flesh that was left %went to the flames Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JOSEF ISRAELS, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Text First Line: When the fisher-folk of the netherland coast Last Line: Who count the leaden years. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jews; Solitude; Dead, The; Anglers; Judaism; Loneliness JOSEPH MAYOR ASHER, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep be thy sleep, brave prophet-priest of god! Last Line: Now that thy work is gloriously done. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism JOSHUA, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: When josh bought old tompkins' place Last Line: And we spread out in the land Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky JOURNEY AWAY, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed last night Last Line: Something also from the laurel, %a tiny arsis Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Jews 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 JUDAH'S HALLOWED BARDS, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Let those who will hang rapturously o'er Last Line: Simply, pathetic, eloquently plain. Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Jews; Judah (bible); Religion; Disciples, Twelve; Judaism; Theology JUDAISM; A TRAGIC CHORUS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O piteous race! Last Line: Already shed in vain. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism JUDAS MACCABEUS, by HENRY SNOWMAN Poem Text First Line: Victor of god! O thou whose lamp of fame Last Line: Come, great deliverer, arise! Arise! Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Patriotism; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Judaism; Serfs JUDEA, by CHARLES M. WALLINGTON Poem Text First Line: I saw in rift of cloud a beaming light Last Line: The soul's broad scope, and brotherhood of man. Subject(s): Children; Jews; Mothers; Childhood; Judaism JUDITH, by GERTRUD KOLMAR Poem Source First Line: Where is dew? Where is sand? Where is the moon? Where a star? Last Line: Now you must wander and no longer know %where your homeland is Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JUDITH, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Subject(s): Jews JUGS, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the long tables of time Last Line: And do not flow over like you or like me Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JULIA RICHMAN, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: Come all who serve the city, all who serve Last Line: She built her life into the city wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Jews; Richman, Julia (1855-1912); Judaism JULIEK'S VIOLIN, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dank halls of buchenwald Last Line: Naked and questioning Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism JULIEK'S VIOLIN, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dank halls of buchenwald Last Line: Juliek plays on. %and the children, %as if in answer, %burn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JUMP, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays. Sun-narrowed eyes. My father Last Line: What I want most is on the other Subject(s): Arabs; Boats; Fathers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine JUNE 22ND, by ROCHEL BOIMVOLL Poem Source First Line: I went outside, I simply shut the door Last Line: Within my breast is now a lion's roar Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JURY DUTY, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: In a large room Last Line: How long before I am myself again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews JUSTICE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The large chamber of the courthouse Last Line: Have pity on a stray nigger! Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky KADDISH, by CATHERINE DE VINCK Poem Source First Line: It is dark and Last Line: On the steel plate of the horizon %a faint exquisite light begins to glow Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KADDISH, SELS., by MELANIE KAYE-KANTROWITZ Poem Source First Line: And when I told the woman - a survivor, a fighter in the warsaw ghetto Last Line: Cracow %covner-gberna %warsaw %these were once jewish sounds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KALICH, INHERITOR OF TRAGEDY, by RIPLEY DUNLAP SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: Kalich, thou of the dark and brooding face Last Line: Concentrate, makes the genius-gift we know! Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Tragedy; Judaism KAUNAS 1941, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Town, %branches over the river Last Line: My dark is already come Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prussia; World War Ii KENTUCKY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: It seems somewhere still clangs a chain Last Line: And the gentle south wind caresses %and carries not a whisper of hate Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky 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 KIDDUSH LEVANA, by RUTH FINER MINTZ Poem Source First Line: A thousand lamps for you in the curve of the shore Last Line: Our children eat, grow beautiful on the mountain Subject(s): Jews - Women KIN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The yard expanded and grew Last Line: Against the old forgotten set of mishna Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky KINDERGARTEN LOGIC, by JOSEPHINE B. MORETTI Poem Source First Line: On a jewish holiday, mrs. Young brought her kindergarten Last Line: Question: when the secretary returned to her desk, did %the child decide the secretary was not jewis Subject(s): Jews; Kindergarten KING DAVID: 2. THE FEAST IN SAUL'S HOME, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell us how ehud stabbed the king of moab Subject(s): Saul (bible); Jews; Illness KING SOLOMON AND THE BEES; A TALE OF THE TALMUD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When solomon was reigning in his glory Last Line: As israel's king learned wisdom from the bees! Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Jews; Sheba, Queen Of (10th Century B.c.); Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Beekeeping; Bugs; Judaism KIPPUR, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thou eternal and omnipotent! Last Line: Bound by love's holiest ties, our god, to thee. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism KITTY RETURNS TO AUSCHWITZ, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: A woman returns to auschwitz Last Line: No brandenburg there, %just wind of the great nothing Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory KOHAIN'S WIFE, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: In the month of av Last Line: A ritually prescribed proscribed %four amot away %from death Subject(s): Jews - Women KOL NIDRE, by BENJAMIN FRIEDLANDER Poem Source First Line: I love god as even guilt can't Last Line: The word was spoken by & to the dust %breaking in my heart Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur KOL NIDRE, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: All the vows %and all the promises not kept Last Line: Perhaps even to love them Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Yom Kippur KOL NIDRE, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: Lo! Above the mournful chanting Last Line: Breathing but the breath of ages. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Music & Musicians; Yom Kippur; Judaism 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 KOL NIDRE AT SANTO DOMINGO, by HERB BRIN Poem Source First Line: Memories %auto da fe Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur KRI'AH, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Shall I put on this kri'ah? Last Line: May you be comforted Subject(s): Jews - Women KRISTALLNACHT, by SUE SANIEL ELKIND Poem Source First Line: Blackness %broken by streamers Last Line: That will become eternal %nightmares Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KS, by CAROLYNE WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: We walk under the empty tower, snow Last Line: But we must learn the signs: they hungered, %they were cold,and in dachau it was always winter Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews KYNGE DAVID, HYS LAMENTE OVER THE BODYES OF KYNGE SAUL OF ISRAEL, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now lette us shede the brinie teare Last Line: How still the weapons of the war. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; War; Judaism KZ-ORATORIO: DARK HEAVEN, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: And on into the morning when he was beaten to death Variant Title(s): Fable; Fabl Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LA PATHETIQUE, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: I put on la pathetique Last Line: For disaster %and %couldn't be disturbed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LABRADOR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: She stands against the tree Last Line: Another twirling trajectory Subject(s): Jews; Medicine LADDERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the angels were too old Last Line: We could count on a ram in the thicket %or stop the knife Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LADY LAZARUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have done it again Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women; Shoah; Judaism LADY LAZARUS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have done it again Last Line: I rise with my red hair %and I eat men like air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Women LAMENT FOR JERUSALEM, by MARION MOSS Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! On thy ruin'd walls Last Line: Amongst the nations take thy stand? Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism LAMENT FOR THE GYPSIES, by JULIUS BALBIN Poem Source First Line: Their home was the endless Last Line: What they believed-- %that peoples should not be divided by frontiers Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAMENT FOR THE SOULS OF JEWISH CITIES, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Souls of jewish cities, %wrapped in the parchments of eternity Last Line: Till your last breath, %if you can Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAMENT OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: Away from our land Last Line: J. F. Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews; Lament; Zionism; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism LANDSCAPE AFTER BATTLE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: To a nocturne accompaniment Last Line: Voice bears witness: %one life is history enough to mourn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LANDSCAPE OF SCREAMS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night when dying proceeds to sever all seams Last Line: Hung up to be dried by god %in the cosmos Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LANTERNMAN, by MARINA ROSCHER Poem Source First Line: Every evening without fail he Last Line: Good to think of ladders to heaven instead %of the gas-flame Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST CRADLESONG, by KEHOS KLIGER Poem Source First Line: Child, on the other side of the door Last Line: Shut forever your angel - eye - %husha, hushabye Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST EARTHWORDS FOR AWHILE, by LOUISE STEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Answer this question: if a train is moving at forty kilomete Last Line: Listen,' she says, 'everything is believeable, but what can we do?' Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LAST FLING OF SUNDOWN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It is always that simple Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LAST LULLABY, by FREIDL TROFIMOV Poem Source First Line: Lie quiet now, dear child of mine Last Line: While, a hunted thing, I wander %lonely through the land Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST OF A DYING BREED, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He awakens naked from a dead sleep Last Line: A masturbator - the last of his family line Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST ONE, THE FIRST ONE, by ISAAC E. RONCH Poem Source First Line: Heads bowed low in sympathy Last Line: I am not what I was in other years Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST PERSON OUT OF THE COUNTRY, PLEASE TURN OFF LIGHTS, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: The women, (hair wrapped in colorful scarves) Last Line: Devouring what is already lost Subject(s): Jews - Women LAST POEM, by JIRI ORTEN Poem Source First Line: Darkness stares from everywhere and no one's here Last Line: I ask and ask these songs for information! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST TRAIN TO AUSCHWITZ, by LOIS VAN HOUTEN Poem Source First Line: The train: long, black, rain-splattered Last Line: The lord our god is one god. %if I forsake thee...' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST VISA FOR PALESTINE, by ELAINE MOTT Poem Source First Line: For my cousin, gitl frost Last Line: The mirrors have flown to the sky. The rivers %have carried away our breath Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAST VISIT, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: She opens the door enough Last Line: Perhaps this is prayer Subject(s): Jews; Medicine LATE TRAIN, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's it like? Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY PASTORAL, by WILLIAM PITT ROOT Poem Source First Line: Not far from belsen the countryside Last Line: The other god %knows where Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LAWNS OF DELHI, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawns of the mogul gardens Last Line: As they crouched over themselves Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Lawns; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women LAY OF ZION, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O zion! Of thine exiles' peace take thought Last Line: To youth restored. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jews; Judaism LEAF, TREELESS FOR BERTOLT BRECHT, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What times are these Last Line: Because it includes %so much made explicit? Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAH, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: If I squint I can see him in the field, that jacob Last Line: And here I sit in my tent %exercising power Subject(s): Jews - Women LEAH TELLS RACHEL SHE WANTS TO LEARN NOT TO LET JACOB MATTER, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Remember the hill where we played Last Line: That might have room %for us both Subject(s): Jews - Women LEAN SONNET, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Rain this time of year Last Line: To spare the near white space Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEARNING BONES, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: I'm learning bones to please my father's ghost Last Line: Pious at last, I pray his sleep is sound %we make amends in any way we can Subject(s): Jews - Women LEARNING THE ROPES. CUSTER ST., EVANSTON, 1949 (VERSION 2), by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: Showering, I see more than the single showerhead Last Line: We rescue each stuffed animal %this time we will get away with our lives Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAVE US, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: Forget us %forget our generation Last Line: Don't enquire about our youth %leave us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAVING A COUNTRY BEHIND, by CAROLYN KREITER-FORONDA Poem Source First Line: Rain over munich, you plane's Last Line: Cracking its windows %when the synagogue towered %in flames Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEAVING TRAUB, MY GRANDMA'S STORY, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: I'm ready, all %I can carry packed Last Line: I will read the lost words %directly from my heart Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LEAVING YOU, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: It has taken me Last Line: I have had %trouble %mother %leaving you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LEGACY, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Two came from russia Last Line: And finally surrendering %to the night Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LEGENDARY LIGHTS, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, the legendary light Last Line: The omnipotence of right. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; Holocaust, Jewish - Liberation; Jews; Light; Judaism LEO, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Let's talk physics. The advantage of a lever depends on its Last Line: Survival. No risk in that Subject(s): Jews; Medicine LEO N. LEVI, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let no lament break forth but rather sing Last Line: Obey our leader's clarion-toned command. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism LEOPOLD ZUNZ, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: To thee o'er whose fresh-closed tomb Last Line: Nor soon nor yet will bid a last farewell. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism LESSON IN OBSERVATION, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pay close attention: the world that appears now Last Line: It blew itself out even before this Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LESSONS OF THE PAST, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: From mem'ry's lofty vantage ground Last Line: Of amaranthine fame. Subject(s): Jews; Memory; Judaism LET EACH BE A FORTRESS!, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Rage in the bells of the conscience that's deaf Last Line: Without ever quaking must wake in the hand %our holy jewish weapon! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LET ME BE JOYFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LET US BE JOLLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let us be jolly and share good jokes Last Line: Biri - bi, bam - bam - bam, %biri - bi, bam - bam - bam Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LET US FORGET, by K. M. Poem Text First Line: The shore once won, who counts the waves? Last Line: Let us forget. Subject(s): France; Jews; Judaism LETTER FROM BERLIN, by JON STALLWORTHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, today a letter from berlin Last Line: A turbulent crater; a trench, filled %not with snow only, east of buchenwald Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War LETTER I WANTED TO WRITE, THE LETTER I WROTE, FOR OSNAT, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: In the medinah, in marrakesh Last Line: And dream of rivers %cleansing orange against wheat Subject(s): Jews - Women LETTER TO A POET, by HERMAN TAUBE Poem Source First Line: Shall you ask: %how long will we continue Last Line: Write! You are our memory! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LETTER TO DINA, by JOHN BRADLEY Poem Source First Line: Why does it take so long Last Line: Into the yar Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LETTER TO IBN GABIROL, by LEV HAKAK Poem Source First Line: Los angeles, april, 1987 Last Line: Who dropped out tired of lice and lamentations Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews LETTER TO MY WIFE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Down in the deep, dumb worlds are waiting, silent Last Line: The light of 2 x 2 is raining down on me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LETTER TO THE FRONT: 7, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be a jew in the twentieth century Subject(s): Jews; Freedom; Judaism; Liberty LETTER TO THE SONS OF ABRAHAM, by MARCIA FALK Poem Source First Line: Millennia have swept across the sands Last Line: And down to deeper roots to be reborn Subject(s): Jews - Women LETTER TO VEINNA FROM PARIS, 1942, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Grandmother, %your face is dangerous Last Line: The thin hand of each man %is clasped to fodder Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LETTERS TO MEEMA, by PAMELA GRAY Poem Source First Line: There is a kitchen Last Line: And you %are out there Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LEVELS, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Focus at em depth- %prions ride astride nucleic threads Last Line: Pretend she doesn't know, %pray he doen't ask Subject(s): Jews; Medicine LIBERATION FROM BUCHENWALD, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He awakens at 5:00 a.M. Last Line: To throw him incorrectably out of step %the rest of his snowy march home Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LIBERATOR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: What he saw he has not forgotten Last Line: Memory floods his chest: each year, %an aneurysm ready to burst Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LIFE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Youth lived its full life Last Line: And out on the distant street %came the incantation: shma-yisroel! Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky LIFE GOES ON, by KAREN ALKALAY-GUT Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME, SELS., by ABRAHAM ABULAFIA Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Abulafia, Abraham Ben Samuel Subject(s): Jews LIFE, MCKENZIE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: This is the envelope, my gap-toothed friend Last Line: Let them make for you a new exasperation Subject(s): Jews - United States LIFETIME'S YIZKOR, by MIRIAM BAT OR Poem Source First Line: Too long have I mourned the passing of many springs Last Line: When I see my beloved, after long and weary waiting %for the glory of the heaven beyond the stars Subject(s): Jews - Women LIGHT ANOTHER CANDLE, by MIRIAM CHAIKIN Poem Source First Line: Let all the family gather Last Line: Sing yet another song, hoi! %chirry, birry, bin Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Hanukkah; Jews LIGHT RIVER, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: The other women watching Last Line: Has been to shine %me home Subject(s): Jews - Women LIGHTS IN THE TEMPLE, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the stars are lit in heaven Last Line: Mingling with his incense cloud! Subject(s): Aaron; Bible; God; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Jews; Paradise; Holy Spirit; Judaism LIKE UNTO SHARON'S ROSES, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: My darling, your grace Last Line: And raise me from doubting and failing. Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): Flowers; Jews; Jews - Women; Roses; Judaism LIKEWISE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jews: %groceries %suits %fruits %watches Last Line: Sometimes I think %jews must have heard %the music of a %dream deferred Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Jews LILLIAN, QUEEN OF THE KELLS, by CASSANDRA SAGAN Poem Source First Line: Now that nana is dead Last Line: And open %all of the letters Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LIMITATIONS OF THERAPY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Maria sits on the edge of her chair Last Line: That's just what they say about you!' %says maria Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships LINE-UP, by DORI KATZ Poem Source First Line: All this is history, the still disputed fate Last Line: If to release myself, I say it wasn't you %speaking to me with broken hands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LINES, by ALICE RHINE Poem Text First Line: Say not that we are cut off by thee, guardian of Last Line: "I have called thee by my holy name, and glory shall be thine." Subject(s): Hate; Jews; Judaism 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 ON CARMEN SYLVA, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trembling old men are stamm'ring Last Line: An ode to humanity. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; Humanity; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; 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 LINES TO AN ANTI-SEMITE, by EDWARD SYDNEY TYBEE Poem Text First Line: Stand! As god saw thee of old time Last Line: His dagger in thy side? Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Jews; Judaism LISTEN TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LISTEN, O PRETTY ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women LISTENING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You told it softly, not looking at my face Last Line: Listen with my body to the real world %the simple hunger of the child Subject(s): Arabs; Hunger; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LITHUANIAN GRANDMOTHER, by MERRA YOUNG PROTTENGEIR Poem Source First Line: You stand in your kitchen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE BOY, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Precious jewish child, %you escaped with your laughter Last Line: From those bloodied paths-- %and all would be laughed away, all refuted Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE BOY DREAMING, by LEIVICK HALPERN Poem Source First Line: Little boy, dreaming, %my slumbering dear Last Line: Little boy dreaming, %my slumbering dear? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE BOY WITH HIS HANDS UP, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: Your open palms raised in the air Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE JENNY, by BARBARA UNGER Poem Source First Line: Shards of a wine goblet Last Line: Before the sky spit %bullets and axes Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LITTLE LAMB, by PEARL B. SHERIDAN Poem Source First Line: Stars? %there are no yellow stars Last Line: Where are you going, little isaac? %where are you going, little lamb? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE LATE MARRIAGE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was never young with you Last Line: At least we seem to be going %in the same direction Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LITTLE LOVE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Just enough to %keep going Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LITTLE PLACE, by ANNELIESE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: It is always there Last Line: I did not expect the wine %to taste so soft, so flinty Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITTLE RUTH, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I remember you, little ruth Last Line: The conveyor belt stands still. And they stood still. Amen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism LITTLE RUTH, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I remember you, little ruth Last Line: The conveyor belt stands still. And they stood still. Amen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITVAKS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The last to show up were Last Line: Moved in and spread out %in the rich and blessed south Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 1. LIVE HENS, APRIL 1940, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He awakens, this tuesday morning Last Line: One, two, three, four, five live hens Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 2. TEMPORARY SOLUTIONS, SEPTEMBER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Something doesn't want this ghetto deciminated Last Line: Year after year, millenniums on end Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 3. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, APRIL, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: As I move exorably toward fifty Last Line: Seeking nonmiracles to let us die anon Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 4. NO CHOICES FOR THE 'CHOSEN', by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Each day the deportations Last Line: Between starvation, freezing, and terminal disease Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 5. MASS EVACUATION, SEPTEMBER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Why, after all these years, decades Last Line: Wishing each other well for the new year Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO, LODZ, POLAND: 6. 'LIBERATION,' JANUARY 19, 1945, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: To have endured, since early '40 Last Line: And he'll wave to his other self as he goes by Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LIVING ALONE WITH JESUS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be %I am the only jew residing in danville, kentucky Last Line: Out of your damaged hands Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jews; Kentucky; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LIVING IN SIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had thought the studio would keep itself Subject(s): Jews - Women; Love; Sin LIVING IN SIN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had thought the studio would keep itself Last Line: She woke sometimes to feel the daylight coming %like a relentless milkman up the stairs Subject(s): Jews - Women; Love; Sin LOAD OF SHOES, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: The cartwheels rush Last Line: Transported from vilna %to berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LOCK YOUR HEART THAT I MAY NOT BROOD, by ISAAC THE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That we may not brood - concerning that which is hidden to thought Alternate Author Name(s): Saggi Nehor, Rabbi Yitzhak Subject(s): Cabbala; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Kabbala; Kabbalah; Judaism LONGING FOR JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O city of the world, with sacred splendor blest Last Line: As sweet as honey then, my passion, my desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Memory; Judaism LORD, THOU GREAT JEHOVAH, by ALBERT FRANK HOFFMANN Poem Text First Line: Creator, author of all things! Last Line: Lord, thou great jehovah. Subject(s): Creation; God; Jews; Judaism LOST PEARL, by SUSAN KAN Poem Source First Line: Click and caught, %framed and fit in glass Last Line: You hummed as you combed your hair %to a clip at the back of your head Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women LOST ROSES, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I'll go off to seek you; a shovel I'll bring Last Line: That kingdom of night in whose deeps they were drowned Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LOUDER, PLEASE, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: My psychiatrist, having turned eighty Last Line: I pray louder too %having heard that %god is dead Subject(s): Jews - Women LOUIE THE TAILOR, by GARY PACERNICK Poem Source First Line: While I stuffed wrapping paper into boxes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LOUIS LOEB, by LOUIS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: Thine was a poet's soul; thine was a heart Last Line: Into the twilight's vale,—but all too soon. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism LOVERS OF ISRAEL', by ITSIK MANGER Poem Source First Line: Reb moishe leib of sossow notes the heaps of ash Last Line: Of the true 'lovers of israel' forever and ever.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LULLABY, by BEZALEL FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: No pillow for your weary head, %no walls to keep you warm. . . Last Line: Mother's tear, her bitterest, %down your forehead runs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LULLABY, by TERESA MOSZKOWICZ-SYROP Poem Source First Line: On a sleepless night Last Line: She used to sng for me: %lulu lul, lulu lul, lulu lul ... Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LULLABY, by CHAVEH ROSENFARB Poem Source First Line: Yesterday I perished %and did not give birth to you, child Last Line: In the graveyard of the present %our graves will never be known Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews LULLABY A STORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Once there was a story Last Line: The bird vanished from the nest Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism LYNCHING, by BERISH WEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: White wild hands snare you with a stray rope Last Line: In wedding, in leopoldstadt and in carolina Subject(s): Jews - Persecution; Lynching; Racism MAABAROTH, by RIKUDAH POTASH Poem Source First Line: Good evening, lord god Last Line: Shield them from the wind and rain %give them comfort in the night Subject(s): Jews - Women MAGGID, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The courage to let go of the door, the handle Subject(s): Jewish Families; Jews - Women MAGGID, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The courage to let go of the door, the handle Last Line: Who became other by saving themselves Subject(s): Jewish Families; Jews - Women MAHLER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mahler endlessly repeats himself Last Line: We'll sing again. My theory is no one Subject(s): Jews; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Judaism MAHLER, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I forgive the jew who wants to serve Subject(s): Jews; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911) 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 MAME-LOSHEN, YIDDISH, by BERNARD S. MIKOFSKY Poem Source First Line: Long ago %we spoke a mother tongue Last Line: They are ghosts, %once warm and loving syllables: %smoke... Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yiddish MAN AND HIS CYMBALS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: How odd it felt to goldin to be sitting at a seder conducted by Last Line: Floor somewhere and never be swept from the corners Subject(s): Jews 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 MAN, THE IMAGE OF GOD, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exult, my soul, in consciousness proud Last Line: Like these, by singing e'er his praise. Subject(s): God; Jews; Justice; Mankind; Praise; Judaism; Human Race MANIFESTO ON FEEBLE AND BITTER LOVE, by TRISTAN TZARA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To make a dada poem Last Line: The poem will be like you Alternate Author Name(s): Rosenstock, Sami; Rosenfeld, S. Subject(s): Dadaism; Jews; Mysticism – Judaism; Poetry & Poets; Judaism MANY THANKS TO YOU, O FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MAPLE AND THE PINE, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: What is this song I hear at dusk Last Line: That solitude's a blessed state, %and I'm not changing now! Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews MARIA OLT, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: On a hillside in jerusalem Last Line: No, said maria, you must understand, %if you go, I will go with you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MARRANO, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: God wants the souls of the faithful Last Line: I made my life a work of art expressing this Subject(s): Jews MARTYRDOM, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: Without, the lonely night is sweet with stars Last Line: The peak still glimmers: thrill, my spirit, thrill! Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Spirituality; Paradise; Judaism MARTYRS ARE CALLING, by BER GREEN Poem Source First Line: The village ruined, its people dead Last Line: Make yourself whole - a new life's to be charted, %oh partisans, oh maccabean-hearted! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MARTYRS ARE CALLING, by BER GREEN Poem Source First Line: The village ruined, its people dead Last Line: Oh partisans, oh maccabean - hearted! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MASCHLACKI, by LORA BERG Poem Source First Line: The boys in bellingham like picking raspberries best Last Line: But what was he? Tell, jerzy, how life in this new place %corresponds to us, tell again what happene Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MASS GRAVES: 3, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning the jews were line up by an officer Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism MASS GRAVES: 3, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning the jews were line up by an officer Last Line: A thousand bodies would be put on a pyre; %and there wre two pyres of boides burning all the time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MASSACRE OF THE BOYS, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: The children cried 'mummy! Last Line: With no star in its crown Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MASTER GARDENERS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Was it apathy or fear Last Line: To produce so furious and unexpungeable a bloom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MATHMID, SELS., by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: There are abandoned corners of our exile Last Line: Granite is yielding clay compared with him - %a jewish boy unto the torah vowed Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Freedom; Jews MAY, 1945, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the allied tanks trod germany to shard Last Line: So that good and evil may die in equal hope Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 MAZEL TOV!, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: Once %I was at a wedding Last Line: And screw the caterer Subject(s): Jews - Women MEDITATION AFTER HEARING THE RICHARD YARDUMIAN MASS ..., by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: Kyrie: last week of a showing of holocaust films. The familiar Last Line: Canticles ride winds %of final peace. %o lamb of god, o lamb of god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEDITATION IN SEVEN DAYS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If your mother is a jew, you are a jew Last Line: I am the woman, and about to enter Subject(s): Day; Jews - Women; Meditation MEDITATION ON ALEPH, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Why do you say my sound is 'ah?' Last Line: Mine is the sound of listening, yearning, reaching %for my companion vowel Subject(s): Jews - Women MEDITATIONS AT TWILIGHT, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: Ah, more and more at evening Last Line: Of discontent—to us—bring peace. Subject(s): Jews; Meditation; Judaism MEDIUM, by MARC KAMINSKY Poem Source First Line: How do you do, delicate roumanians! Last Line: How close you were %to never having existed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEMENTO, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the blackness of that flesh Last Line: To many, in its beak, no dove brought answer Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEMORIAL POEM, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eyes of strangers do not see Last Line: Of a memorial candle, bright %with everlasting praise? Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEMORIES OF DECEMBER, by GIZELA SPUNBERG Poem Source First Line: Like a very fine, white dust snow was falling Last Line: For your last walk, you left a message, a legacy: %'tell my daughters, I was not afraid. ...' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MEMORY, SELS., by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Photograph: families looking of all things shy Last Line: A shade darker than new snow, %than that star I saw watching us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MENDELE, by ISRAEL EMIOT Poem Source First Line: Now the holocaust's done and there's scarcely a jew Last Line: The old jewish custom: hope wakes in my breast Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MENORAH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She lights the lights Last Line: Making love Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; 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 MERCIFUL GOD, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: Merciful god, %select some other nation Last Line: Take back the godly genius that you gave Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MERON, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thia the mountain %where ben yochai walked Last Line: Why did you hide your hair? Subject(s): Jews MERRY CREW, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The boiler boys below decks Last Line: Set course against the wind Subject(s): Jews - United States MESSAGE FROM THE PAST FOR THE PRESENT, by CHRISTINA V. PACOSZ Poem Source First Line: A looming mound %of empty zyklon b canisters Last Line: Such eloquent %refuse Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MICHAL, by RACHEL BLUWSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Though years divide, we're sisters yet Last Line: Who also love whom I despise Subject(s): Jews - Women MIDNIGHT SNACK, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: This is the age of mellow rooms, paper Last Line: There's enough for all the men tonight Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MIDRASH OF THE ABSENT: MESSIAH, by MOSES DE LEON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The garden has three walls all made of fire Alternate Author Name(s): Moses Ben Shem Tov De Lion Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism MIDRASH ON LEAH, by LYNN SAUL Poem Source First Line: Nowadays your father couldn't play his trick Last Line: Even today, he'll have her too Subject(s): Jews - Women MIDSUMMER: 38, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The camps held their distance of brown chestnuts and grey smoke Last Line: Since this century's pastorals were already written %at auschwitz, buchenwald, at dachau, at sachsen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MIEMAND, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You with the cross and you without the cross Last Line: Seek absolution in no other place. %come, enter in Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MIKLOS RADNOTI, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Because time is a fiction in the mind Last Line: Wife %the poems are time's wings. Spread them darkly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MILLION PARIS OF SHOES, by AARON KURTZ Poem Source Last Line: A brotherhood of peoples that will arise and walk %that first day %of genesis. -- 1945 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MINE WAS NOT A BUBBE, by JOAN (THALER) DOBBIE Poem Source First Line: But an oma Last Line: Then she died Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MINOR SURGERY, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: During the procedure %I thought of sex Last Line: When I am better Subject(s): Jews - Women MIR, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shtetl, Subject(s): Villages; Jews; Judaism MIRACULOUS INSTRUMENTS: THE SERPENT ROD, by GLADYS SWAN Poem Source First Line: Not enough to leave that land of slavery Last Line: When they could see it, %milk and honey flowed Subject(s): Jews - Exodus From Egypt MIRIAM, by E. DUDLEY JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Oh, for that day, that day of bliss entrancing Last Line: "forever and ever." Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jews; Women In The Bible; Judaism MISERERE, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: I will endow you with a false glow %ghetto Last Line: Instead of these grey ashes %that like a winding sheet settle on shivering europe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MISHNAH, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Jews 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 MO'OZ TSUR YESHU'OSI (A CHANUKAH HYMN), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "mighty, praised beyond compare" Last Line: Haste to my salvation! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts;hanukkah;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 MODERN WOMAN, by IRENE RETI Poem Source First Line: Margit grunbaum reti - %you are a modern woman Last Line: Never stop learning, %live Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MOMENTS WITH ALVIN, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: With frosted mugs, we sip the years away Last Line: We've learned to hide it from the other's dimming eyes Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MOMMA, by JACOB DANIEL-LEVITZ Poem Source First Line: As a leaf tears itself from a tree Last Line: And, momma, you in tears at the departing sleigh Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOMMA REMEMBERS, by ELAINE MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: In zerdover %I couldn't go %to school. I was a girl Last Line: I wake up Subject(s): Jews - Women MONTEFIORE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw - 'twas in a dream, the other night Last Line: And in a moment was a lonely man! Subject(s): Charity; Dreams; Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Philanthropy; Nightmares; Judaism MOON IS GOING TO SLEEP, by RIKUDAH POTASH Poem Source First Line: The moon is tired of shining, %my child. - Last Line: Her head lies in a cloud now, %like a drowsing refugee Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 MORDECAI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make friends with him! He is of royal line Last Line: Not his, comes from the gallows cubits high. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism MORE LIGHT! MORE LIGHT!', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Composed in the tower before his execution Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism MORE LIGHT! MORE LIGHT!', by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Composed in the tower before his execution Last Line: Ghosts from the ovens, sifting through crisp air %and settled upon his eyes in a black soot Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had known, dear master, when of late Last Line: And lost its matchless cunning only now. Subject(s): Honor; Jews; Memory; Scholarship & Scholars; Judaism MORNING, by GAIL KADISON GOLDEN Poem Source First Line: It is eight o'clock in Last Line: And when I look for my grandmother %where shall I go to find her Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MORNING, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The farmer threw open the door of the barn Last Line: Do not let the jew budge from this place.' Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky MORNING AT DACHAU, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: In the cellar under dachau Last Line: Smelling of young girls %who run and make love Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MORNING INVOCATION, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At morn I ask thee, lend thy shelt'ring aid! Last Line: Dwelleth my soul, thy gift divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): God; Jews; Prayer; Judaism MORNING SONG, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look for you early Last Line: Yet the breath of god in me. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism MORNING SONG, by HENRY SAMUEL JACOBS Poem Text First Line: At early morn, thee will I seek Last Line: Whilst yet in us the spirit lives. Subject(s): Devotion; Jews; Praise; Judaism MOSAIC, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this tile Subject(s): Jews; Travel; Judaism; Journeys; Trips MOSES, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will sing high-hearted moses Last Line: Stooped to borrow from the jew. Subject(s): Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Nile (river); Judaism MOSES, by N. N. Poem Text First Line: Thrones that stood and realms that flourished Last Line: As his birthright's sacred fountain? Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Judaism MOSES AND JESUS, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought on two jews meeting I did chance Last Line: With bitter tears of agonized despair. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology MOSES AND THE DERVISH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, that heaven's seven climates hath spread forth Last Line: The circumstance according to the worth. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Judaism MOSES IN THE DESERT, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go where a foot hath never trod Last Line: That power belongs to god alone. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism MOSES MENDELSSOHN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Once, through a night of darkness and of shadow Last Line: Should mark thy people, moses mendelssohn! Subject(s): Jews; Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786); Judaism MOSES ON MOUNT NEBO, by I. SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: He stood on nebo's lofty crest Last Line: He sleeps, his sepulchre unknown. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Graves; Jews; Moses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism MOSES REICH, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This sunny june a.M., dazed to the world Last Line: When even death can't deny moses reich his right to die Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOSES: A PLAY, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pharaoh's desires Last Line: They take it thus — or die Subject(s): Jews; Moses MOTHER, by JULIAN TUWIM Poem Source First Line: In the cemetery of lodz %in the jewish cemetery Last Line: But the corpse of my name %lies there till this very day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOTHER'S TISHA B'AV, JULY 1984, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Bitter is the word Last Line: My missed-child %missing Subject(s): Jews - Women MOTHER, TELL MY FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MOUNT SINAI, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From sinai's top the lightnings flashed Last Line: For none can see his face and live. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Sinai, Mount; Judaism MOURNER'S KADDISH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Yitgadal veyitkadash shemei raba %shadows live in the corners of my mind Last Line: Aleinu ve-al kol yisrael, ve-imru amein Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MOUTHFUL OF SAND, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I gave up on words when my daughter died Last Line: In a new language only the two of us know Subject(s): Jews - United States MRS. ELLIS A. FRANKLIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was not granted to her she should lead Last Line: Inspire the deeds that live for time untold Subject(s): Jews; Judaism MULTIPLE IDENTITY QUESTIONNAIRE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a jew? A nice jewish boy? Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jews; Buddhism; Self; Identity; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men MUNICH, 1955, by MAURYA SIMON Poem Source First Line: Mama, pick me up Last Line: She leaves a dark spot above me %on the ceiling when she takes a bath Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MURDER OF A COMMUNITY, by DANIEL WEISSBORT Poem Source First Line: Ordered to strip prior to extermination Last Line: And no progeny to revenge their fallen manhood Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY ANCESTORS SPEAK, by RAZEL LEBENSBOIM Poem Source First Line: My ancestors %men in satin and velvet Last Line: My ancestors speak Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Jews MY BELOVED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY BELOVED, LET US GATHER WOOD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 CURSE, by ITZIK FEFFER Poem Source First Line: My curse - may it fall like a fiery hail in your way Last Line: May no one and nothing accompany it but my curse! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY DARLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY FATHER USED TO CALL IT CHTSOS, by LEIVICK HALPERN Poem Source First Line: Midnight. My father used to call this hour chtsos Last Line: These monstrous nights of mine, the nights of nineteen - forty Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY FATHER'S BIBLE, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one book, far dearer than the rest Last Line: And kiss its covers, too, when I'm alone. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Judaism MY FATHER'S GARDEN, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: I have come back Last Line: Bring them to you Subject(s): Jews - Women MY FATHER'S HANDS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: It's a school night. While I get ready for bed Last Line: Raising me like a glass of wine Subject(s): Jews - United States MY FATHER'S LETTERS, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father's letters from america %to my mother Last Line: Over the fields of poland winds have blown %the ashes of her bones Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY FEAR OF THE UTOPIAN, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: He talks of sweetness, love, epiphanies Last Line: Let us rot in peace Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MY FIRST DEATH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: For me, it started when we placed my son on the cart Last Line: Maybe wide enough for two Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MY FRIENDS BAKED CAKE AND WE ORDERED LOX AND WHITEFISH, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: I stood there shoulder to shoulder with the men Last Line: What do you need with all those foreskins anyway? Subject(s): Jews - Women MY GIRLFRIENDS, by ERICH FRIED Poem Source First Line: Slowly in three to four weeks Last Line: From the gas chamber %to the incinerators Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 GRANDMA HAD A LOVER, by CAROLYN WHITE Poem Source Last Line: And grandma with her young young hand %draws back her golden hair Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMOTHER'S BRAID, by GENIE ZEIGER Poem Source First Line: I lift her %thin braid Last Line: When the grown-ups %smile Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY GRANDMOTHER, THE REVOLUTIONARY, by SANDRA GARDNER Poem Source First Line: My grandmother %in the russian revolution Last Line: And left a note in yiddish %that no one could read Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women MY HEART DESIRES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY HEART IS IN THE EAST, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west— Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jews; Passover MY HEART IS JOYFUL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 MY HOLOCAUST SONGS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some split ss backbones with axes Last Line: Themselves dying, returning with spring, the bleeding %notes, break down, break down again, my songs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY HUSBAND TOOK A RIVAL WIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women MY JARED, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I love him when he offers his gallant elbow, %eases grandma from her seat Last Line: I love him when I hear his call at night %knowing it's my son Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MY JEWISH LIFE LINE, by PENINNAH SCHRAM Poem Source First Line: My jewish life scribbled %across the page Last Line: But my life and line continue Subject(s): Jews - Women MY LITTLE SISTER, SELS, by ABBA KOVNER Poem Source First Line: Far, far %a city lies. Body still warm Last Line: Are concencrated %more than eagles %and angels Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I look for the precious four walls %where you drew breath Last Line: Tree, nest, robin, %and all the rest.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER LOOKS AT ME, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother looks at me with bloodied Last Line: In may, when the spring winds come Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER SANG ME A POLISH SONG, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My mother sang me a polish song Last Line: My mother sang me the polish song - %in her eyes was heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER'S FRIEND, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: My mother %had a schoolfriend Last Line: And hurled herself %from the top %of a bank Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY MOTHER'S NOVEL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Married academic woman ten Subject(s): Jews - Women; Writing & Writers MY MOTHER'S NOVEL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Married academic woman ten Last Line: Understand: I am my mother's %novel daughter: I %have my duty to perform Subject(s): Jews - Women; Writing And Writers MY MOTHER-IN-LAW'S NAME IS ROSE, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: You grasp your cane with the hunger Last Line: Twirl your cane, stretch your arms, %let them tango Subject(s): Jews - Women MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: My old neighbor isn't in the apartment any more Last Line: Those who throw away old pictures %and those who pick them up Subject(s): Jews - Women MY PEOPLE, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: Thou hast not come from the ghettos of paris and the villages of russia Last Line: Who has placed me on this strange page of life? Subject(s): Jews; Judaism MY PRAYER TO THE CHIMNEY, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning I offer a prayer %to the chimney Last Line: O don't cave in, %my god! Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY SISTER CHANEH, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the green grass, %behind the high hill Last Line: The white, gray ash %of chaneh, my sister Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY SON, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My son, %how the red shirt adorns you! Last Line: My son, %how the red shirt adorns you! Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MY TEMPLE, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Source First Line: Somebody arsoned my temple Last Line: Only a wailing wall %is left for the weeping Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Arson; Jews; Religious Discrimination; Temples MY UNCLE IN TREBLINKA, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My uncle, man of science in berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews MYER DAVIS, by ISAAC LAZAROWICH Poem Text First Line: Farewell! The word is idle, not in vain Last Line: Out of the dying dark, good night, good-bye. Subject(s): Davis, Myer (1830-1912); 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 NAKED BOY, by CHAIM GRADE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Creator of the world in all its diverse forms! Last Line: Around treblinka's altar, where the fire is out Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NAKED GIRLS IN THE FORESTS OF BARBED WIRE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: At times I dressed up as a priestess, and went leaping through air Last Line: Clear that never had we known how to see ourselves Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Nudity; Pornography; Prostitution; Women - Abused NAME OF A PLACE, by NORBERT KRAPF Poem Source First Line: Here the taste of ashes Last Line: And the taste of ashes %stays in the mouth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NAMES, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: Sunday nights at seven he's here Last Line: As we watch our uncle peeling back %the layers of our lives Subject(s): Jews - Women NAMES THE DEAD SPEAK, by SHARON KESSLER Poem Source First Line: My father, who loves my mother Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NANCY'S ALIYAH, by CYRILLE KANE Poem Source First Line: Mother's annoying everyone again Last Line: Will anyone notice when I disintegrate? Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 NATIONAL THOUGHTS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You: trapped in the homeland of the chosen people Subject(s): Jews; Judaism NATIONAL THOUGHTS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman, caught in a homeland-trap of the chosen people: you Last Line: And thin-legged Subject(s): Jews NATIONAL THOUGHTS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source 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 NATIONAL THOUGHTS, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Caught in the homeland-trap of a chosen people Last Line: And sleep in it forever Subject(s): Jews NATURE AND THE POET, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My rabbi was nature-she set me to learn Last Line: A poet, my brothers, a poor jewish poet. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Nature - Religious Aspects; Poetry & Poets; Judaism NAZI IN THE DOCK, AT SIXTY, by LARRY RUBIN Poem Source First Line: Incensed, he clutches at his innocence Last Line: To bits of hair and wire, acrid smells %of something in his skin he can't recall Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NECESSARY ATAVISM, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He awakens, this dreary, rain-blasted day Last Line: Archaeopteryx frantically ripping apart his entrails and heart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NEHEMIAH TO ARTAXERSES, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sorrow, o king! Of the heart Last Line: With those sorrows that melt and consume. Subject(s): Jews; Nehemiah (5th Century B.c.); Judaism NEIGHBORHOODS: BRIGHTON BEACH, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: This is the end of brooklyn, defiant and salty Last Line: To a doorway %cluttered with roses Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: INHERITANCE, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: The tarot cards were a surpise Last Line: Will I grow used to her dissatisfaction %burnig like her green eyes in the corner, %constant as a mo Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: UNTENANTED, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Standing over %your uninhabited body Last Line: A brick wall %still holding in the sun Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORHOODS: YAHRZEIT, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: The yahrzeit flame %is beating its wings in a cup Last Line: With all its stray cats, its ecstatic %vegetable stands Subject(s): Jews - Women NEIGHBORS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The people were raw, strong, and hard Last Line: A gift from the thin pastor Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky NETWORK OF ROADS, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: The old village roads are the landscape's fine sinuous net Last Line: Where all our roads will some day end Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Roads; Travel; Wanderers And Wandering NEVER SHALL I FORGET, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: Never shall I forget that night Last Line: As long as god himself. %never Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NEVER WENT TO BIRDLAND, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never went to birdland, so what, went to the y, Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Jews; Love - Beginnings; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism NEW LIFE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: A small tree stands on hard rocky ground Last Line: Don't worry. With god's help, it'll be all right Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky NEW LULLABY, by MOISHE BRODERSON Poem Source First Line: Dolly, dolly, dolly dear, %don't you shed a single tear! Last Line: Dolly, dollykins - good night! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NEW TANAGER / NEW SONG, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: A storm last night worthy of sinai Last Line: In a couple of eons, we, too, might sprout wings Subject(s): Birds; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Tanagers NEW TRANSLATION OF TSVETAYEVA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She couldn't get in Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941) NEW YEAR, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: Across the life-path of our destiny Last Line: To perfect day. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Judaism NEW YEAR HYMN, by JOSEPH KRAUSKOPF Poem Text First Line: Gone another year- / gone beyond recall Last Line: May erasure need. Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; New Year; Judaism NEW YORK IN A JEWISH MOOD, by JUDD TELLER Poem Source First Line: Big-city streets Last Line: Under the pointing hand %of a reader Subject(s): Jews; New York City NEWARK, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Lane %lives alone now Last Line: And sigh - like deer %in winter Subject(s): Jews - Women NIGHT AND RAIN, by MANI LEIB BRAHINSKY Poem Source First Line: Husha - husha, night and rain Last Line: Sleep you, safe and warm! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NIGHT DRIVING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: No one selling cherries %at roadside kiosks Last Line: Argument will be over. %two inches Subject(s): Jews - United States NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Last Line: He refused to pitch on yom kippur Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts And Feasts; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur NIGHT OF DREAMS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The stall was fragrant Last Line: To the wished for a promised land. Amen Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky NIGHT OVER BIRKENAU, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: Night again. Again the grim sky closes Last Line: Fog descends over birkenau Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NIGHT RAY, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Most brightly of all burned the hair of my evening loved one Last Line: I am lighter: %in front of strangers I sing Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NIGHTMARE, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: She and her parents escaped, but she still whispers Last Line: Everything, all, as weightless as compressed air Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NIGHTSONG, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strangers' eyes don't see Last Line: And that shining gift, an eternal deathday light %forever flickering? Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Variant Title(s): Memorial Poe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NINE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Convenient, my darling Last Line: To put your arms around me Subject(s): Jews - Women NINETEEN-FORTY FIVE, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father's skin Last Line: A rare comb Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nuclear War; World War Ii NISHMAS, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All living souls shall bless thy name Last Line: Great king, whom we adore. Subject(s): God; Jews; Love; Judaism NISHMAS, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: The breath of ev'ry living thing Last Line: No king but thee we know! Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Belief; Creed; Judaism NO RAIN YET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cries %countthedead %countthedead Subject(s): Arabs; Birds; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine NO WEEPING!, by DAVID HOFSHTEIN Poem Source First Line: I see - %you are wholly in blood Last Line: And survive - %pays! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOBILITY, by EDITH ELLA DAVIS Poem Source First Line: It is a noble thing to be a jew Subject(s): Faith; Jews NOBODY'S JEW, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: The chef of the restaurant was a big, bluff man Last Line: I'm not your jew. I'm nobody's jew Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Jews; Restaurants NORTH AND SOUTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewes their beds, and offices of ease Last Line: Gods wayes and walks, which lie still east and west. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism NOT A DREAM, JUST THOUGHTS, by MARION DEUTSCH COHEN Poem Source First Line: The child is the only one awake. She decides not to kill Last Line: I tell you, I did not create the war. %when I arrived. The war was already there Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT A SOUND; THE NIGHT IS STARRY, by HIRSH GLIK Poem Source First Line: Not a sound; the night is starry Last Line: The liberty for which we die and dare! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT DACHAU, by AARON MILLER Poem Source First Line: It is with curiosity, finally Last Line: As if this were atlantis, %not dachau; a window, %not a mirror Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT ONE SOB, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Nations, let there be no crying - Last Line: Good as any times we've known Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT ONLY IN THE SIX-DAY WAR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: But in the locked ghettos Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOT YET VISIBLE, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: My father balances on scaffolding Last Line: Straining to see something %not yet visible Subject(s): Jews - Women NOTEH'S SLEEP-SONG, by ITSIK MANGER Poem Source First Line: I sing myself a sleep - song: %'sleep, sleep, you lonesome man Last Line: It was your fate to be buried %in far uzbekistan.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NOTHING, by JOSEPH GIKATILLA Poem Source Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism NOW IS THE TIME FOR MERCY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women NOW, WHEN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Outside, the granite field, ringed Last Line: Knowing what he wants Subject(s): Jews - United States NUMBERS, by NORAH REAP Poem Source First Line: I met you as a child Last Line: Though we knew little of the journeys that brought us %together Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews NUMINOUS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are walking a sidewalk in a german city Last Line: A hundred hearts %beating in the air. %beautiful blue-gray pigeons. %we will always remember Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews O DANCER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DAUGHTER OF THE MORI, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DAUGHTER, TELL ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O DWELLER OF PARADISE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O GIRL IN A HIDDEN CORNER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O GROOM, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O GROOM, WHO GUIDED YOU?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O HANDSOME ONE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 MOTHER, O FATHER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O MY BROTHERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O MY PRETTY MAIDEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O SISTER, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O sister, %where do you pitch your tent? Last Line: You drink its blood Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 O THE CHIMNEYS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the chimneys / on the ingeniously devised habitations of death Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Judaism O THE CHIMNEYS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And israel's body as smoke through the air! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews O THE CHIMNEYS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And israel's body in the smoke through the air! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews O THE CHIMNEYS, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O the chimneys %on the ingeniously devised habitations of death Last Line: And israel's body as smoke through the air! Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews O THE NIGHT OF THE WEEPING CHILDREN!, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That no one will comb again Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews O THREE, O FOUR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women O WOULD BREAST TOUCH BREAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OATH, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: We take the oath in the shadow of candles Last Line: They burn and burn and are not consumed Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OBSCENE ECHOES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Heading to the local restaurant for breakfast Last Line: My ears can hear all this distance from tubingen, %heidelberg, dusseldorf, berlin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OBSERVATION (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jewes, when they built houses (I have read) Last Line: Cities most sad and dire destruction. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism ODE ON CHAZANUTH, by NINA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Arise and sing, thou deathless melody Last Line: And pass away. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism ODE TO THE SACRED LAMPS, by M. L. R. BRESLAR Poem Text First Line: O fugitives from black oppression's bread Last Line: Enkindled by the sacred lamps of old jerusalem. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism ODE TO THE STATUE OF MOSES; THE MASTERPIECE OF MICHAEL ANGELO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Statue! Whose giant limbs Last Line: For ye had bent the knee to one of godlike mould! Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.);jews;michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Judaism ODE TO ZION, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou not, zion, fain Last Line: And see thy youth renewed as in the days of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jews; Judaism OEDIPAL STRIVINGS, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dinosaur egg opens in a lab Subject(s): Jews; Ancestors & Ancestry; Weather; Judaism; Heritage; Heredity OF IMMIGRATION, by JUDD TELLER Poem Source First Line: My mother leads me through streets Last Line: Of a little jew Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews - United States 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 OIL OF HER HANDS, by MARK NEPO Poem Source First Line: I wonder about rifkah, my grandmother's sister Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OLD MAN ROSENBLATT: DRESDEN, LONDON, ST. LOUIS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: A man stands at the heart of an intersection Last Line: Late to his funeral today Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OLD PEOPLE AT THE FILM SERIES AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: Every monday, the city herds Last Line: The sweet connection of their first ten years %together with the bitter flavor of the last Subject(s): Jews - Women OLD SOFTIE, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: He talks so thick %before bed Last Line: This stark adonis %bobbing unpedelstalled Subject(s): Jews - Women OLNEY HYMNS: 30. THE LIGHT AND THE GLORY OF THE WORD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit breathes upon the word Last Line: In brighter worlds above. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology OLNEY HYMNS: 4. JEHOVAH-NISSI, THE LORD IS MY BANNER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By whom was david taught Last Line: Will help his servant to the end. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism OMAR ON THE BEACH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Arise! The weatherman predicts today Last Line: Oh, desert, thou art rockaway to me Subject(s): Jews; Medicine ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above my desk / the rabbi of auschwitz Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism ON A DRAWING BY FLAVIO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above my desk %the rabbi of auschwitz Last Line: That is all that god %gave us to hold Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT THE JEWS TO CHRISTIANITY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou canst wash the ethiopian white Last Line: Each one to answer for himself alone Subject(s): Bible;catholics;jews;religion - Reformers; Roman Catholics;catholicism;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 BORROWED TIME, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: At 76 and 80 my parents buy new tennis rackets Last Line: It frightens me %having lost so much Subject(s): Jews - Women ON CLEAR NIGHTS I WATCH, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the %threshold Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Night; Palestine; Prayer ON LEARNING THAT THE RUSSIANS HAVE OCCUPIED 2790 GREEN ST., by JANET WINANS Poem Source First Line: Odd of them to put a consulate Last Line: There's no one anymore to fix these things Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ON LOVE: OSCAR GINSBURG, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen, friends and strangers Last Line: Son, brooding about the strangeness of love Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Love ON OPENING A BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: I look at them until I feel immune Last Line: Tell this, they're not redeemed. There they lie Subject(s): Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Photography And Photographers ON THE ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For years unblest, all hope of rest forbidden to his feet Last Line: And pour into the hebrew's ear the lead of a debate. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Jews; Judaism ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's god Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur ON THE DAY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome Last Line: Our worship, oh father, is only for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF BLUMA SACH'S DEATH, by VINNIE-MARIE D'AMBROSIO Poem Source First Line: Who knew her Last Line: How the bright rooms laughed with music %while we wept! Subject(s): Jews; Women ON THE GRAVE OF MICHAEL GORDON, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One more gravestone-one more heart Last Line: Spoke in blessing o'er the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism ON THE MASSACRE, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Text First Line: Ye heavens, pray for mercy on my head! Last Line: The bases deep of wickedness and shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Jews; Massacres; Judaism 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 THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What murmurs are these that so wofully rise Last Line: Who rules -- heaven help them! Those realms of the czar! Subject(s): Jews - Persecution; Russia - Pogroms ON THE PICTURE OF THE FINDING OF MOSES BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This picture does the story express Last Line: Because I from the waters drew him. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; Hebrew Literature; Jews; Moses; Judaism ON THE RUSSIAN PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O son of man, by lying tongues adored Last Line: In death's worst hour the works of christian men? Variant Title(s): On The Russian Persecution Of Jews Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians ON THE SICK-BED, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: These fiery stabs, this icy thrill Last Line: A dewy flower my soul is now, %new-born in sanctity Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews ON THE SUBJECT OF ROSES, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: All wrapped up in clouds, the powerful demon Last Line: At least, give it a chance to flower' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON THE WALL NEXT TO MY WINDOW, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who %will make art of this Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Arabs; Bible; Home; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ON THE WALL OF A KZ-LAGER, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: Where you have fallen, you stay Last Line: Speechless, speechless, you testify against us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND, by ELAINE MOTT Poem Source First Line: A man straps on her harness Last Line: She floats on the rushing silver light, %the airstream, home Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON TO THE EAST, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your loins let girt be Last Line: March to zion! Ye brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism 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 TRANSLATING THE PSALMS, by SAMPSON GIDEON JR. Poem Text First Line: How great thy thoughts, how glorious thy designs Last Line: That all the world in duty must esteem. Alternate Author Name(s): Guideon, Sampson, Jr.; Eardley, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Praise; Prayer; Judaism ON VIEWING A STATUE OF DAVID, by EVA GORE-BOOTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the shepherd boy who slung the stone Last Line: The king is dead, immortal stands the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Selina Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Statues; Judaism ON WATCHING HERITAGE: CIVILIZATION AND THE JEWS, by DEBORAH HANAN Poem Source First Line: It started outside, my seeing: the air - glass, fallen Last Line: Light to light. Ours, the unlasting moment %when god will be whole again and everyone, good Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ON YOUR LIFE I HAVE SWORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 ONCE MORE WITH YOU, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: These days of love are lollipops Last Line: I'm once more with you %wubd-stunned Subject(s): Jews - Women ONE DAY MY DAUGHTER WILL LEARN ABOUT ANNE FRANK, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: She'll imagine snow falling Last Line: The world will have turned %so terribly bright Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF JEWISH SETTLEMENT LATER, by ARYE SIVAN Poem Source First Line: Two things there were that puzzled the first settlers in %palestine Last Line: One hundred years of jewish settlement later %I, for one, don't know Subject(s): Jews ONE LAST TERZA RIMA / ITALIAN TRAIN, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Why, always, this compulsion to explain? Last Line: My father-in-law, my husband, my unsalvageable europe %my terza rima poem, my camoflage Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ONE SOLID PIECE, by LINDA SHEAR Poem Source First Line: In the corner of the kitchen Last Line: She knew she would have to make room %for this legacy Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ONKEL FRITZ IS SITTING, by DAVID KOENIG Poem Source Last Line: Onkel fritz, are you thinking %of the miracle %of standing up again? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ONLY A JEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the land of brittany, and long ago" Last Line: "''twas only a jew,' the folk said, 'only a jew!'" Subject(s): Capital Punishment;jews; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;judaism ONLY A JEW, by DAVID BANKS SICKLES Poem Text First Line: Nobody cares, for he's only a jew Last Line: Cannot be blighted by passion or hate. Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Jews; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Judaism ONWARD, by J. M. MANICOFF Poem Text First Line: Where are you going, soldiers Last Line: The lord will lead us through. Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; Jews; Palestine; War; Zionism; Liberty; Judaism OPA THE WATCHMAKER, by ARLENE MAASS Poem Source First Line: Casper ten boom's crime: I will open my door Last Line: Like a camp storeroom full of eyeglasses to the ceiling %from eyes that see the other side to time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OPTIMISM, by I. Z. JOSEPHSON Poem Text First Line: The rose is hid by prickly thorn Last Line: And joy is found in sorrow's train. Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Optimism; Judaism ORAL PALLIATIVE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Even after the burned hat, the shattered broom Last Line: Let your scar stories be your best batter Subject(s): Jews - United States ORIENTALE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's an enchanting little israelite Last Line: A touch sidonian -- modern -- taking -- strange! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism ORIGINAL SIN: A CAUSAL ANALYSIS, by LOUISE JAFFE Poem Source First Line: I needed a sin %an original sin Last Line: Fast-frozen in fame %in my husband's name Subject(s): Jews - Women ORPHANS, by ITSIK MANGER Poem Source First Line: The peacock's gold and the pure white goat Last Line: Dazzling as sorrowful snow - these are %the orphans of my race Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OSCAR COHEN, by HAMMOND B. GAYFER Poem Text First Line: Oh, that death should lay thee low Last Line: Shone the glory of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Gayfer, H. B. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism OTHER LEO BAECK, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I am trying to locate a figure who can say something Last Line: Or think about heroism as a concept. Which is something Subject(s): Jews - United States OUR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OUR BUSINESS IS REJOICING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Between channels, brief snarls of static: commercials for massacre Last Line: The faint electric screech inside the house like tremolo violins Subject(s): Jews - United States OUR CREED, by JOSEPH LEONARD LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one only god Last Line: His justice and his grace. Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Belief; Creed; Judaism OUR DAUGHTER IS STILL INNOCENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women OUR FATHER, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: God himself, in all his righteous wrath Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OUR GROOM IS LIKE ROLLING THUNDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 OUR JEWISH ORPHANS' HOME, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Back from the street, within a wreath of bowers Last Line: Our sacred trust,—our jewish orphans' home! Subject(s): Charity; Children; Jews; Orphans; Philanthropy; Childhood; Judaism; Foundlings OUR NEIGHBOR IN CHARGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rub out %with my bare feet Subject(s): Arabs; Hebrew Literature; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Neighbors; Palestine OUR PASSWORD, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No hate can stifle our religion's birth Last Line: Our prayer in life and death that god is one. Subject(s): History; Jews; Religious Education; Historians; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OUR SEVEN-BRANCHED MENORAH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: Then may we be at peace Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OUR SPIRIT IS NOT BROKEN, by JOSHUA ZENDORF Poem Source First Line: No, our spirit is not broken Last Line: Once our chains are torn away! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OUR TORAH, by JOSEPH ELIYIA Poem Source First Line: Day and night, steeped in sterile study Subject(s): Jews 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 OUT OF THE HOT ASHES, by AVROM ZAK Poem Source First Line: It's often past belief that only I, that I alone Last Line: All, all, six million lives to be accounted for Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OUTSIDE HIS DOOR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I raise my hand to knock Last Line: Racing for the dregs Subject(s): Jews; Medicine OVER CRADLES, by MENACHEM BORAISHE Poem Source First Line: Over the cradles at slumbertime Last Line: Eternity in the minutes before death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OVERLOAD, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: When %the Last Line: Than %a third of the pit Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews OVID IN THE THIRD REICH, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my work and my children. God Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism OVID IN THE THIRD REICH, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love my work and my children. God Last Line: Love. I, in mine, celebrate the love-choir Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PAEAN AFTER SNOW, by LOUISE JAFFE Poem Source First Line: And lo it came to pass Last Line: So warmly, warmly good. %amen Subject(s): Jews - Women PALMS AND MYRTLES, by ELASAR KOLIR Poem Text First Line: Thy praise, o lord, will I proclaim Last Line: "blessed art thou for evermore." Alternate Author Name(s): Kalir, Eleazar Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism PANTOUM: AT MOUNT HEBRON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: This cemetery is no haven Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Sons; Grief; Jews; Mourning PARANOIA FOR BREAKFAST, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: It's a matter of conditioning, nationalistic pride Last Line: Discussing the most expeditious way to dispose of my bones Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PARAPHRASE OF ADON OLAM, by DAVID NUNES CARVALHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the glorious orbs of light Last Line: And save my soul in death. Subject(s): Devotion; God; Jews; Praise; Judaism PARTING PEARLS OF A SEX EDUCATOR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Our freudian struggle represents Last Line: And fondling handsome necrophiles' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine PARTING, FR. YUNGE YURN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The picture of my final parting from home Last Line: And wrapped my face in the curtain of the ark Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky PARTINGS, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Birthing (then) and (now) parting Last Line: What steel cut true %leaving a thin scar? Subject(s): Jews - Women PARTISAN SONG, by HIRSH GLIK Poem Source First Line: Never say that there is only death for you Last Line: Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble: 'we are here!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PARTISANS, by CHANAN KIEL Poem Source First Line: Huts still huddle sleeping; %the field - dogs bark in chorus Last Line: Jews with grenades are creeping %out of the deeps of the forest Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PARVE, by NINA JUDITH KATZ Poem Source First Line: There I was and I was parve Last Line: Grant me %my own set of dishes Subject(s): Jews - Women PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in doubt, in weariness, in woe" Last Line: Was rolling o'er their head Subject(s): Egypt;jews;moses;red Sea; Judaism PASSION OF RAVENSBRUCK, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: He steps out from the others Last Line: That he forgot to cry out %before he collapsed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii PASSOVER, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From egypt once, 'mid storm and flame Last Line: Abram s. Isaacs. Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism PASSOVER (THE FIRST DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE), by DEBORAH KLEINERT JANOWITZ Poem Text First Line: The sullen ice has crept from sunny fields Last Line: "our god is one—humanity is one!" Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Jews; Passover; Liberty; Judaism PASSOVER 1988, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I'm of the tribe of sarah Last Line: A daughter pulling an enemy child %from this river? Subject(s): Jews - Women PASSOVER AT AUSCHWITZ, by LAURENCE JOSEPHS Poem Source First Line: Possibly they thought of it Last Line: To the angel death who once, in old bondage %did not forget,but held them more than dear Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Passover PASSOVER HYMN, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When as a wall the sea Last Line: Sang the redeemed that day. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; Passover; Judaism PASSOVER NIGHT 1942, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: Not a crumb of leavened Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Passover PASSOVER: THE INJECTIONS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds pass over, endless Last Line: We are living in biblical times,' %a woman says Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Passover PATIENCE, by JESSICA LIPSKY Poem Source First Line: Patience is the lesson Last Line: I wait for you to come Subject(s): Jews - Women PATRIARCH OF THE SEDER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Despite his reputation as a tireless job Last Line: And cosmic fear from, his unassailed abundance Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PATRIARCHAL POETRY, SELECTION, by GERTRUDE STEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Patriachal poetry defined Last Line: What is it Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism PATRIOTISM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: To each his country dearer far Last Line: For poverty in canaan's land Subject(s): Jews;patriotism; Judaism PAUL CELAN: A GRAVE AND MYSTERIOUS SENTENCE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's daybreak and I wish I could believe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism PAUL CELAN: A GRAVE AND MYSTERIOUS SENTENCE, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's daybreak and I wish I could believe Last Line: Forever breaking behind the smokestacks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PEACE AND REMEMBRANCE! ALL THE GREAT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: His life is immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Jews; Immortality PEACE, HORROR, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: As I stepped out the doorway it was ten o'clock Last Line: Peace hung along the street, a touch of horror too Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PEACE-AND HONOR, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed are the sounds of party-strife Last Line: Not one's nor other's—england's own. Subject(s): Honor; Jews; Peace; Judaism PEACEABLE KINGDOM, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: A tawny lion sprawls on flowers Last Line: She tells him trouble! And he says knowingly, ah, dat freebase, mon! Subject(s): Jews - Women; Psychoanalysis; Relationships PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 14. AL-MUZAWWIR, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lord would fashion men Last Line: "come thou!"" at man's hour of death." Variant Title(s): Making Of Man Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Creation; God; Islam; Jews; Mankind; Eve; Judaism; Human Race PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 45. ALLAH-AL-MUJIB, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lord the prophet (peace to him) doth write Last Line: Better is prayer than food or sleep! Variant Title(s): Ali And The Jew Subject(s): God; Islam; Jews; Prayer; Judaism PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 67. AS-SAMAD, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of heaven's prodigious years man wotteth nought Last Line: Thy times are good: thy will be done. Variant Title(s): Ozair The Jew Subject(s): God; Islam; Jews; Judaism PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 77. AL-MUTAHALI, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis written in the chapter 'of the cave' Last Line: Exalted art thou past our ken. Variant Title(s): Moses And The Angel Subject(s): Angels; Bible; God; Islam; Jews; Moses; Judaism PENITENCE (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctors, in the talmud, say Last Line: More worth, then heav'ns eternitie. Subject(s): Jews; Repentance; Judaism; Penitence PENTECOST, by ANNETTE KOHN Poem Text First Line: Down by the shining sea Last Line: The treasure of the lord. Subject(s): God; Hebrew Language; Jews; Prayer; Sinai, Mount; 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 PERHAPS, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps %today I see dr. Mengele Last Line: Deutsch, deutsch, deutsch' - Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PERHAPS A FRIEND OF ANNE FRANK'S, by SAMUEL EXLER Poem Source First Line: I walk in the blackout, beside the dutch Last Line: And the nazi doctor giggles, 'it won't hurt a bit.' Subject(s): Frank, Anne (1929-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PERHAPS MIRIAM, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Smoking exorcised overnight Last Line: That swell your hidden nodes, tilting %into your blood Subject(s): Jews; Medicine PERMANENT DELEGATE, by YURI SUHL Poem Source First Line: My name is jew Last Line: And you will never get rid of me %until the world is hitler-free Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Social Protest PERSPECTIVES ON THE SECOND WORLD WAR, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a terror Last Line: It would be too impolite %to say you do not know yourselves you do not know %others Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 PHANTOM HAIKU/SILENT FILM, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I don't write haiku. I'm no good at silence Last Line: A catchall character for luminous and burn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PHANTOM SIBLINGS, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Wherever my life's path leads me Last Line: That I am still alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PHEDRE, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How vain and dull this common world must seem Last Line: The loveless lips with which men kiss in hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Jews; Judaism PHOTO, KRAKOW 1939, by DONNA REIS Poem Source First Line: You sit in your chair %in a black dress Last Line: Their backs braced against bullets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PHOTO-FINISH BRAT, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: About once a week, invited, I Last Line: Either she's grown up. %or I Subject(s): Jews - Women PHOTOGRAPH OF SURVIVORS, by GAIL NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: It doesn't look like him Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 PICTURE IN A DREAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women PICTURE POSTCARDS: 1, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: From bulgaria thick, wild cannon pounding rolls Last Line: Or an insect in rotted tree pith, staging its funeral Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURE POSTCARDS: 2, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Nine kilometers from here the haystacks and %houses are burning Last Line: Clouds, bending over Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURE POSTCARDS: 3, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Bloodly saliva hangs on the mouths of the oxen Last Line: Death blows overhead, revolting Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURE POSTCARDS: 4, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: I fell beside him; his body turned over Last Line: Blood mixed with mud was drying on my ear Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PICTURES AND STORIES, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: I never knew you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PIGEONS, by BERT MEYERS Poem Source First Line: Wherever I go to find Last Line: They moan and I'm there %and it's still like that Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PIGTAIL, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: When all the women in the transport Last Line: Pulled at school %by naughty boys Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PILLOW AND STONE, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a stone in olden time Last Line: The pillow's changed to stone!— Subject(s): Angels; Jews; Judaism PINES ON OUR STREET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Split %on the fault line Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Writing And Writers 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 PITCHIPOI, by GEORGE BOGIN Poem Source First Line: After such words %what further words? Last Line: For the poem died in the epigraph. %pitchipoi Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PIYUT: A GREAT MUSIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ah people do do shake off dust do rise do Last Line: Close with your enemies smoked out burnt off like dew Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism PLACES I'M NOT ALLOWED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If only %I peed like them Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War PLAYTHINGS, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Every plaything, my child, hold it precious Last Line: Seven streets full of porcelain faces %in a city with nary a child Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POACHER, by GREGORY ORFALEA Poem Source First Line: He stole us out of our lives Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Sanctuaries POEM, by CELIA DROPKIN Poem Source First Line: You sowed in me, not a child Last Line: I still, even now, can make you songs Subject(s): Jews - Women POEM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I am trying to find a parking space Last Line: And that's not nearly enough Subject(s): Jews - United States POEM ABOUT PEOPLE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The jaunty crop-haired graying Subject(s): City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Relationships; Jews; Judaism POEM CONTEMPLATING POETS, by LEV HAKAK Poem Source First Line: And saul spear in hand Last Line: David playing by hand %and saul spear in hand Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews POEM FOR ANTON SCHMIDT, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: I have properly spoken %hymns for the dead Last Line: For a living man among clockwork robots %and malevolent pup pets Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER, by LESLEA NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Minukha, minukha, here comes your faigl's rukhl Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Exiles; Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women POEM FOR SOPHIE, by DAVID LAMPERT Poem Source First Line: It is simply this Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POEM OF DEATH, by GEORGE MACBETH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: And once again the angel of death came Last Line: Covered with mushrooms %close to the roots Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POEM OF THE END, SELS., by MARINA IVANOVNA TZVETAYEVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a thick horse's mane Last Line: In this most christian of all worlds %the poet's a jew Alternate Author Name(s): Tsvetayeva, Marina Ivanovna; Efron, Sergei, Mrs.; Tsvetaeva, Marina Ivanovna Subject(s): Jews; Poetry And Poets POEM TO GENTILES, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The butchering must be wholesale and the smell Subject(s): Jews POEMS FOR A DIARY: 1980, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: And when I go up as a pilgrim in winter, to recover Last Line: You're making the sign of the cross. I'm making my pencil its pledge Subject(s): Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POEMS FOR THE RICH: 1, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Zaritsky with 10 children Last Line: O worse off than his dog Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;poverty; Judaism POEMS FOR THE RICH: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Derision of the working class Last Line: Past all reproach Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;poverty; Judaism POEMS FOR THE RICH: 3, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O mother o mother Last Line: Women die starving Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;poverty; Judaism POEMS FOR THE RICH: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bosses with hearts of stone Last Line: Where does it end? Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;poverty; Judaism POEMS FOR THE RICH: 5. A POEM FOR MILLIONAIRES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Viz rothschild -- face of gold Last Line: Bag of bones Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;wealth; Judaism;riches;fortunes POETIC ARS, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I sit with mighty pen in hand Last Line: I think I'd rather get a date Subject(s): Jews; Medicine POETRY, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: My grandfather pesach hung himself Last Line: Three generations %unpublished poets %each not knowing the language of the other Subject(s): Jews - Women POETRY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God made the world with rhythm and rime Last Line: The world god made with rhythm and rime. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism POGROM, by PHYLLIS KAHANEY Poem Source First Line: At the church they killed a pig once Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Pogroms POLAND, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: What do you want %to go to poland for Last Line: Please %don't go Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POLAND, by DANIEL WEISSBORT Poem Source First Line: There were millions of us, %and millions stayed Last Line: I do not enter into a dialogue with them. %I cannot help them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POLAND OF DEATH: 1, by ALLEN GROSSMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear my father underground scratching with a nail. And I say Last Line: "and mother says, ""this is the forest primeval."" poland of death!" Subject(s): Graves; Jews; Parents; Poland; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Parenthood POMERANTZ UNBURIED IN HIS POEMS, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Shakes the earth from his shoulders Last Line: Heart-cries of the shofar spark %from his mouth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PONAR, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: In the world to come, the forests won't have secrets Last Line: Shaded by the forest at ponar Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Vilna (vilnius), Lithuania POOR CHRISTIAN LOOKS AT THE GHETTO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees build around red liver Last Line: And he will count me among the helpers of death: %the uncircumcised Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Warsaw Ghetto POOR CHRISTIAN LOOKS AT THE GHETTO, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bees build around red liver Last Line: And he will count me among the helpers of death: %the uncircumcised Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POOR PEOPLE, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being poor has one color Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Poverty; Judaism PORTRAIT OF A HOUSE DETECTIVE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: He lolls in the supermarket Last Line: Wittler, hittler, or something like that Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PORTRAIT WITHOUT A FACE: 1. AN OLD TREE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Death cracks his knuckles Last Line: A few splinters %lodge in my hair Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PORTRAIT WITHOUT A FACE: 2. THE BANNER, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: A light swings, lit Last Line: Yakov! %I want you back! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PORTRAIT WITHOUT A FACE: 3. A DOG LICKS MY FACE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source Last Line: That burns green %in the rain Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSSESSIONS OF THE RICH, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: The %rich Last Line: You %were Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSTCARDS: CSERVENKA, OCTOBER 6, 1944, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Nine miles from here Last Line: Bends to the clouds and drinks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSTCARDS: MOHACS, OCTOBER 24, 1944, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Bloody drool hangs on the mouths of the oxen Last Line: Death blows overhead, disgusting Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSTCARDS: SZENTKIRALYSZABADJA, OCTOBER 31, 1944, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: I fell next to him. His body rolled over Last Line: Dark filthy blood was drying on my ear Variant Title(s): Postcard (found On His Body After He Was Killed By The Nazis Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POSTHUMOUS REHABILITATION, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: The dead have remembered Last Line: The dead will not rehablitate us Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews POWDERS OF THE MERCHANT, by ALEXANDER JAVITZ Poem Text First Line: Scarlet spice Last Line: Swift songs are drumming on the echoes of kol nidre . . . Subject(s): Cabbala; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Sapphires; Yom Kippur; Kabbala; Kabbalah; Judaism PRAXIS, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: There's a portion of the brain Last Line: Reluctantly nods as he passes it to me Subject(s): Jews; Medicine PRAYER, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto thy rock, my soul, uplift thy gaze Last Line: Solomon ibn gabirol. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism PRAYER, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, %let me drink once more Last Line: Let me drink once more %the scent of your grasses Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRAYER FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (YOM KIPPUR, 5662), by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I have failed, my god, to see Last Line: And let thy love my shelter be! Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Prayer; Yom Kippur; Judaism PRAYER ON THE APPROACH OF ACCOUCHEMENT, by FANNY NEUDA Poem Source First Line: Oh, my god! Soon, soon approaches the great hour Last Line: Keep and preserve me from all evil. %amen Subject(s): Jews - Women PRAYERS FOR A SICK DAUGHTER, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: I sleep %this winter Last Line: We will be done %to begin Subject(s): Jews - Women PREDESTINATION OR, LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: I kissed the frog firmly Last Line: Fiercely resisting princehood Subject(s): Jews - Women PRETTY SOON, by EDITH BRUCK Poem Source First Line: Pretty soon %when people hear a quiz show expert Last Line: Who have always gotten themselves talked about: %they really attract attention Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRINCESS IN A BUTCHER'S SHOP, by JOHN MILLETT Poem Source First Line: Old mrs lowenstein practiced survival Last Line: At his 'beautiful fathers'. She remembers %a lung that did not cry out or breathe Variant Title(s): Rachae Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRINCESS MICHAL'S SONG, by ROSALIND (ROSA) DARROW Poem Source First Line: Here in the garden %sit david and I Last Line: And I shall weave %garlands alone in the night Subject(s): Jews - Women PRINCESS SABBATH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In arabia's book of fable Last Line: Till it crackles and is quenched. Subject(s): Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141); Synagogues; Judaism; Yehuda Ben Shemuel Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan PRIPET MARSHES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of my jewish friends and seize them as they are Last Line: I sink down as though drugged or beaten Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS MAY 14, 1948, NEW YORK CITY, by FLORENCE WALLACH FREED Poem Source First Line: The headmaster addresses the assembly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PROENSA, by ISAAC BEN ABRAHAM GORNI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In provence gorni's got a lot of enemies Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism PROPHECY OF JESUS BEN HANANIAH, by JESUS BEN HANANIAH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice from the sunrise Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine; Shoah; Judaism PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Last Line: And that is how you die. And that is how you die Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine PSALM, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one moulds us again out of earth and clay Last Line: Over, o over %the thorn Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews PSALM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We're late. She pulls on hose, as if her skin Last Line: Later, curtains drawn, when everyone is home and at rest Subject(s): Jews - United States PSALM 137. THE JEWISH CAPTIVE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: Oh zion! If I cease for thee Last Line: "forgetful, lord, of thee." Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Prayer; Judaism PSALM 137: EXILE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: We sat & cried along babylon rivers Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism PSALM CXXVI, by R. B. I. Poem Text First Line: When zion's dire captivity Last Line: Come laden with his sheaves. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Zionism; Judaism PSALM: 114, by MYRTILLA E. MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: When israel from proud egypt's yoke Last Line: Of waters, for his flock. Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Judaism PSALM: 7, by ARTHUR SCHILLER-SZINESSY Poem Text First Line: O lord, my god, in thee I put my trust Last Line: And to the heavens my tongue his fame shall roll. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Judaism PUISSANCE OF THE JEW, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For, if we be not of the lost ten tribes Last Line: With dawning greatness of the jewish name! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Wealth; Judaism; Riches; Fortunes PURIM, by LABEL Poem Text First Line: Queen esther-so the scriptures say Last Line: On purim. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism PURIM, by CALMAN DAVID MATT Poem Text First Line: Come, quaff the brimming festal glass! Last Line: Upon his flock from high. Alternate Author Name(s): Matt, C. David Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish - Liberation; Jews; Judaism PURIM, by MYRTILLA E. MITCHELL Poem Text First Line: From shushan's royal palace came the edict dread / and dark Last Line: Illumined shine in israel's heart with faith's undying fame. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Judaism 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 QIRYAT SHMONEH, by ESTHER COHEN Poem Source First Line: Bible men walk %with beards Last Line: On top of the sunrise and we'll eat soup together %with one golden spoon Subject(s): Jews - Women QUEEN ESTHER AWARD, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: In the most inconceivable places Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews QUIET DESPERATION, by MIKE FRENKEL Poem Source First Line: My parents endured %the nazi death blitz Last Line: And burned, %now plays an occasional %listless bagatelle Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RABBI BEN EZRA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grow old along with me! Last Line: Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same! Subject(s): Aging; Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology RABBI BEN HISSAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben hissar rode one day Last Line: "'I thank thee, lord,' was all he said" Subject(s): Clergy;death;fathers & Sons;jews; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;judaism; RABBI ISHMAEL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi ishmael, with the woe and sin Last Line: "the mercy of the all merciful is sure!" Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism RABBI'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, the rabbi's granddaughter, wanted christmas Last Line: Only red, gold and blue shining for me Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jewish Families; Jews RABBI'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: A wilted flower child Last Line: To send your prayers with me %I will deliver them Subject(s): Jews; Psychoanalysis; Relationships RACE, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The giant walked %always before me Last Line: Back against %my mouth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RACE, by KAREN GERSHON Poem Source First Line: When I returned to my home town Last Line: By hating people for their race Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RACHEL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When memnon's sculptured form the god of day Last Line: What victor monarch's crown is with such gems / enwrought Subject(s): Jews;rachel (bible);women;women In The Bible; Judaism RACHEL, by BARBARA D. HOLENDER Poem Source First Line: I will sit here very still Last Line: A late bloomer - but special Subject(s): Jews - Women RACHEL (RACHEL [RA'CHAL,] A EWE), by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We named you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism RACHEL (RACHEL [RA'CHAL,] A EWE), by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We named you Last Line: Known as %rachel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RACHEL'S CHILDREN ARE PLAYING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And spit the shells %on the floor Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine RACHEL'S HUNGER, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I've seen rachel tear at the strings Last Line: Until the shadow of a child's hand %touched her face Subject(s): Jews - Women RACHEL: 1, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In paris all look'd hot and like to fade Last Line: And rachel's switzerland, her rhine, is here! Subject(s): Jews; Paris, France; Judaism RACHEL: 2, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto a lonely villa in a dell Last Line: The beauty and the glorious art of greece. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism RACHEL: 3, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sprung from the blood of israel's scattered race Last Line: Her genius and her glory are her own. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism RAIN IS FALLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women RAINBOW CALENDAR OF ISAAC LURIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Nisan if you see the rainbow from the east side Last Line: Great sorrow in the deserts Subject(s): "cabbala;calendars;exiles;jews;luria, Isaac Ben Solomon (1534-1572);mysticism - Judaism;" Kabbala;kabbalah;judaism 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 REAL CHOCOLATE, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: They lured me out of the barracks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REBECCA 1942, by R. M. COOPER Poem Source First Line: We stole a glass and hung the canopy Last Line: Blessed thou,' 'as the stars,' %and 'grow old.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REBECCA 1944, by R. M. COOPER Poem Source First Line: It's only one nightmare - a girl returns Last Line: Inside that barred darkness. %part of her survived Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REBECCA'S HYMN, FR. IVANHOE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When israel, of the lord beloved Last Line: "are mine accepted sacrifice ." Variant Title(s): Hebrew Hymn;hymn Of The Hebrew Maid Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology REBECCA, THE JEWESS, by CLARK B. COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: Closed are the tear-gates of paradise now Last Line: The beautiful land of dreams. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism RECAPITULATIONS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born downtown on a wintry day Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Jews; World War Ii; Coming Of Age; Youth; Blacks; Divorce; Christianity; Conduct Of Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Judaism; Second World War RECIPE, by SUSAN (RITTER) LEVINKIND Poem Source First Line: A guggle muggle %I'm not even sure how to spell it Last Line: Don't burn your throat, %so it feels, yes? Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women RECKONING, by MARIE SYRKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the hour of reckoning Last Line: Upon the fingers of your outstretched hand %the reckoning will stand Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RECOGNITION, by MIRIAM TEICHNER Poem Text First Line: So-you have 'recognized' the jew? Last Line: "since, wisely, now you ""recognize"" the jew." Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict RECORDING HISTORY, by GAIL NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: Out of the dark theatre into sunlight Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RED CROSS TELEGRAM, by LOTTE KRAMER Poem Source Last Line: Your calvary of nails %and gas and graves Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 REFORGER, by MIRIAM OFFENBERG Poem Source First Line: I don't want to go Last Line: Feeling their helplessness %feeling the guiltness %of my being alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: 1 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War REFUGEE BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this city has ten million souls Last Line: Looking for you and me, my dear, looking for you and me Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Ten Songs: Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Refugees; Soldiers; World War Ii REHEARSAL AT TEREZIN, by DARCY GOTTLIEB Poem Source First Line: Listen. %what's happening here at terezin Last Line: Now we can laugh at allen's joke Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REJOICE IN THE BLESSING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women REMEMBER ME, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I stalk my thoughts while they're in flight Last Line: Show me. Are you really here!' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine 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 REMEMBERING, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your mother hoards flour and sugar Last Line: Names of the dead bloomed %like flowers in your hands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews REMEMBERING DRESDEN, by VAN K. BROCK Poem Source First Line: British reconnaissance planes Last Line: Afterwards her feet were amputated Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know the story. The children Last Line: Darkening all our skies Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Children; Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Childhood; Dead, The; Shoah; Judaism RENYA'S BABY, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: Afterwards %you Last Line: Another %mother Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REPEAT ONE DAY BEFORE THY DEATH, by RABBI ELEAZAR Poem Text First Line: Hold thou thy friend's honor dear as is Last Line: Rabbi eleazar. Subject(s): Jews; Repentance; Judaism; Penitence REQUIEM, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Your names ring clearly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REQUIREMENT, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: Having avoided fatal accidents Last Line: Not the winds, %not even you, not even you! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RESCUE OF MOSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In judah's halls the harp is hushed Last Line: The babe that slept by nile's broad tide Subject(s): Hebrew Literature;jews;judah (bible); Judaism RESIDUALS, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: My stomach tells me: I'm hungry Last Line: Residuals from other times, %other places, %other circumstances Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RESISTANCE, by SUSAN DAMBROFF Poem Source First Line: I am built of my thoughts Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RESPONSE, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not dusk / in jerusalem Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Judaism RESPONSE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not dusk %in jerusalem Last Line: Have long since burned down %to stubs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews RESTAURATEUR WITH MUSIC, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knishes, kisses Subject(s): Restaurants; Jews; Cafes; Diners; Judaism RETRIBUTION, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: I spilt my blood upon a battlefield Last Line: Behold the courage of the wandering jew! Subject(s): Dreams; Hate; Jews; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Life; Nightmares; Judaism RETURN, by DORI KATZ Poem Source First Line: The light I turn on to remember you these days Last Line: You are a light behind that kitchen window now, %behind that glass - a light that comes and disappea Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RETURN, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: Suddenly the window will open Last Line: That people are at each %other's throats Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RETURN TO TEREZIN?, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Would I return to terezin today Last Line: I do not want to die %in terezin Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews REVEILLE, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the brutal nights we used to dream Last Line: The strange command: 'wstawac' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RIDDLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From belsen a crate of gold teeth Last Line: The moon will remember the skin. %but who killed the jews? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RIDING THE EIGHTEEN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Few words, I'd like to think it's because it's 6:30 Last Line: Trailing it like a memory of violence Subject(s): Jews - United States RIDING WESTWARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's holiday night / and crazy jews are on the road Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism RIDING WESTWARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's holiday night %and crazy jews are on the road Last Line: Here in the car and in queens and in brooklyn Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur RIPPLE OF VOICES AROUND THE BED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And stares %at the doctor Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Hospitals; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nurses; Palestine; Sickness RISA, by MARCIA FALK Poem Source First Line: When risa crosses her long legs Last Line: All the wadis of judea go streaming %in the rush of spring Subject(s): Jews - Women RITES AND CEREMONIES: 1. THE ROOM, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, adonoi, author of all things Last Line: And he has heard me out his holy hill Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews RITES DE PASSAGE, by MADELINE TIGER Poem Source First Line: As our bodies took shape Last Line: Of passage gleamed like dime %in your eyes Subject(s): Jews - Women ROADS, by PETER HUCHEL Poem Source First Line: Choked sunset glow Last Line: Humming cloth of flies %closed over wounds Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROAST LEVIATHAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old jews!' well, david, aren't we? Last Line: Jeered at? Well, let them laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Angels; Feasts; Fights; God; Jews; Monsters; Judaism ROCK, by NATALIE R. SHEFFLER Poem Source First Line: My father was the silence that we ate Last Line: He lowered his voice so the neighbors couldn't hear, %his silence the rock inside the stone Subject(s): Jews - Women RODEF SHALOM, by W. G. SKILLMAN Poem Text First Line: When ancient nations bowed the knee Last Line: The one jehovah, sovereign lord. Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Temples; Worship; Judaism; Mosques ROLL CALL, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He stands, stamps a little in his boots Last Line: Without me: here for eternity Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROMANCERO: BOOK 3. HEBREW MELODIES: JEHUDA BEN HALEVY; A FRAGMENT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, jerusalem, I ever Last Line: "both in stinking bad condition." Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141); Judaism; Yehuda Ben Shemuel Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan ROSE, by MARGO HITTELMAN Poem Source First Line: Crazy, they called you Last Line: I'm sorry %I love you Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women ROSE OF BLUE FLESH, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Facing a long byzantine city wall Last Line: Everyone is born with a blue rose number on the flesh Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROSES AND THE GRAVE, by VERA WEISLITZ Poem Source First Line: Someone, perhaps a friend Last Line: Here are no roses %and %you have no grave Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROSH HASHANAH, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the tomb of ages past Last Line: With hopes revived the festal greet! Subject(s): Faith; Jews; Rosh Hashanah; Belief; Creed; Judaism ROSH HASHANAH FOR A SURVIVOR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Auschwitz-sounds resound in his throbbing head Last Line: Not for his own lonely soul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROSH-HASHANAH, by JOSEPH KEARNEY FORAN Poem Text First Line: I stood, to-day, in a temple Last Line: Their strength must nobler grow! Subject(s): Jews; Rosh Hashanah; Judaism ROSIE, by NICOLE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: She tosses bread to them Last Line: He gives her ends %from cold-cuts. And stale bread Subject(s): Jews - Women ROTTERDAM - 1946, by THOMAS A. GOLDMAN Poem Source First Line: In this grey vault Last Line: The numbed flesh that was left %went to the flames Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ROUND, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: Im my head %house of bone Last Line: & who will remember %my mother my father? Subject(s): Jews - Women ROZHINKES MIT MANDLEN, by IRENE JAVORS Poem Source First Line: Mamuchka, %it has been so long Last Line: Goodbye, dear friend Subject(s): Jews - Women ROZHINKES MIT MANDLEN, by IRENE JAVORS Poem Source First Line: Mamushka, it has been so long since we have spoken Last Line: Goodbye, dear friend Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women RUDE ARE THE TABERNACLES NOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Who did this sovereign gift accord! Subject(s): God;israel;jews;prayer; Judaism RUSSIA AND THE JEWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o muscovite, blind is your wrath, with" Last Line: Yet the hebrew abides and is strong Subject(s): Jews;persecution;russia; Judaism;soviet Union;russians RUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The plume-like swaying of the auburn corn Last Line: "thy people and thy god shall be mine own!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism RUTH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood breast high amid the corn Last Line: Share my harvest and my home. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Jews; Love; Ruth (bible); Seasons; Women In The Bible; Youth; Fall; Judaism RUTH, by H. HYMAN Poem Text First Line: Leave thee alone in sorrow! Ask me not Last Line: And whither thou goest will I also go. Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Ruth (bible); Solitude; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism; Loneliness RUTH AND NAOMI, by LOWELL COURIER Poem Text First Line: A rabbi's child and puritan's once met Last Line: And reap in joy the harvest—truth sublime. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism RUTH AND NAOMI, by WILLIAM OLIVER BOURNE PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell? Oh, no! It may not be Last Line: My firm and faithful heart from thee. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism SABBATH, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabbath is here, and the heavens are beaming Last Line: Then sing like an angel at the gateway of heaven! Subject(s): Jews; Peace; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday SABBATH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: I have chopped the fish Last Line: Blue blossoms hang low %on the bush Subject(s): Jews - Women SABBATH EYES, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Holy one of being Last Line: Help us feel your presence Subject(s): Jews - Women SABBATH HYMN, by SOLOMON BEN MOSES HA-LEVI ALKABEZ Poem Text First Line: Come forth, my friend, the bride to meet Last Line: Come, o my friend, the sabbath greet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkabiz, Solomon Subject(s): Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday SABBATH HYMN, by AARON COHEN Poem Text First Line: Descend, descend, o sabbath princess Last Line: And sabbath peace for evermore. Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Peace; Sabbath; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday SABBATH LIE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On friday, at twilight of a summer day Last Line: I’ve gone to another life Subject(s): Sabbath; Jews; Sunday; Judaism SABBATH THOUGHTS, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I bless thee, father, for the grace Last Line: Bid work-day turmoil cease. Subject(s): God; Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday SACRED AND THE PROFANE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We sit in a circle while our leader, a senior Last Line: And make petitions, some of which he grants, raybans glittering Subject(s): Jews - United States SACRED EPIGRAM: I AM THE WAY. TO THE JEWS WHO SCORN CHRIST, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O but still not [a way] to be trodden on: do you press on, wicked foot? Last Line: Which makes so the path to heaven be worn down Subject(s): Jews SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE MASTER WEEPING, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For you jews, for this wave is rolled forth Last Line: Only for these waters, will be a fiery harvest Subject(s): Jews SACRED EPIGRAM: THE MASTER WEEPING OVER THE JEWS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learn, you wretched ones, learn [to recognize] the approaching flames Last Line: Will either put out your flames or create them Subject(s): Jews SACRED LYRIC, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When sorrow, blinded with her tears Last Line: O lord of hosts! To comfort me. Subject(s): God; Jews; Pity; Judaism SACRIFICE, by GERTRUD KOLMAR Poem Source First Line: Her purple shoes know the way, and the metal band on her ankle knows it Last Line: But she does not know it Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SAFE HOUSES, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: On the tenth of november Last Line: To our safe house %saved by mommy Subject(s): Jews - Women SAFED AND I, by MOLLY MYEROWITZ LEVINE Poem Source First Line: Old enemies %ten year adversaries Last Line: Old witch, who bewitches men %and women, too Subject(s): Cabbala; Jews - Chassidim SAID THE MOTHER OF THE DAUGHTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SAID THE MOTHER OF THE SONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SAID THE POET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women SAMSON, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wherefore was my birth from heaven foretold Last Line: Himself in bonds under philistine yoke Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Samson; Strength SANCTUM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On top of a hill near the lebanese border Last Line: And trust it to bear our weight %a little longer Subject(s): Arabs; Cemeteries; Cities; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors SANDALPHON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read in the talmud of old, / in the legends the rabbins have told Last Line: To quiet its fever and pain. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Judaism SANITY, by BETTY WISOFF Poem Source First Line: Jack, I never knew you Last Line: All of my days. I must do mundane things %for the sanity of my days Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SARAH AND ISAAC HER SON: A MIDRASH, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: Abraham's eyes blaze the command to bathe his son Last Line: Weeping for hagar's forgiveness as though it were a trail %she might follow Subject(s): Jews - Women SARAH IN HER DAUGHTER'S HOUSE ... REMEMBERS THE SHUL, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: I'm remembering: %in the old country, you know, in the shul Last Line: The tears cames running some more Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SARAH TALKS TO GOD, by LILLIAN ELKIN Poem Source First Line: And why, oh king, my god, should the blood of a child Last Line: And my sorrow sounds me with knives %and I am bitter in my doubts Subject(s): Jews - Women SARAH: CHESHBON HANEFESH, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: I know I don't look too good Last Line: The tunnel was sealed at both ends from the start Subject(s): Jews - Women SATURDAY NIGHT, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: When george gets his weekly pay Last Line: George, her man, is in a deep sleep Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky SAUL'S HAMMER, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: Today it matters, that I hold Last Line: The blossoming and the dying %and what that meant Subject(s): Jews - Women SAVING THE CHILDREN, by FRIEDA SINGER Poem Source First Line: They had taken away Last Line: To care for the children %the promise that kept her %and them alive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCAR - AUGUST, 1934, by HANS JUERGENSEN Poem Source First Line: The clearing ahead shimmered Last Line: That's all I can remember %... Over thirty years ago. %--1966 Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCARECROW ON A CRUCIFIX, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He, a fleshly scarecrow Last Line: Until they've reduced him to the field he's been assigned - %this ghettoed golgotha Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 1. (HANDIWORK / GLORY), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Dare I begin: a song of jacqueline? Last Line: Our own extraneous efforts at creation Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 10. (SNOW PSALM, TO THE CONDUCTOR), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: For this, we'll need our doves again Last Line: Its feathers' shallow plunge, its startled coo Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 11. (DEAD MAN'S PRAISE), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Yakov glatstein already %used this verse in a poem Last Line: Have liked, even for %an instant, to live forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 12. (SCIENCE PSALM), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Scientific evidence is nothing to rabbis Last Line: I'd like something that will last Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 2. (PURE SILVER / SEVEN TIMES), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Let's pretend, for an instant, we're not degraded Last Line: And sift it through the heavens seven times Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 3. (THRONES AND PSALMS), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: This is the way I like to think of him Last Line: All he wanted was a little praise Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 4. (DARKNESS / WINGS), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I'll tell my daughter %don't be afraid Last Line: Don't be afraid %it's only god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 5. (PSALM 37 AT AUSCHWITZ), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: All those boys who'd started heder at three Last Line: Just a little longer ... He'll be gone Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 6. (SUDDEN MICHTAM), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: And suddenly what I'm reading is a michtam Last Line: Have already fallen fast asleep Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 7. (MICHTAM / DOVE / DISTANT SILENCE), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Our great rashi says the dove is david Last Line: Falling back, unsure of what they've heard Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCATTERED PSALMS: 8. (AT THE GALLERIA DELL'ACCADEMIA: PSALM 51), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Is that what he's saying? You can't be sure Last Line: Or prying lips apart to mouth a prayer? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prayer SCATTERED PSALMS: 9. (LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOW: PSALM 121), by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Was it jonathan edwards who'd repeat, continually Last Line: A lifted eye, a lily of the valley Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prayer SCENE FROM SHOAH, by LUADA SANDLER Poem Source First Line: It is spring, and a boatman is rowing down the river Last Line: But his memory - his memory perished in the camp, %except for the song he is singing Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: Drifting, the ten tribes there, gone forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Relatives; Shoah; Judaism SCENE OF A SUMMER MORNING, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scene of a summer morning: my mother walking Last Line: No longer mine. Littering through my fingers, %drifting, the ten tribes, lost forever Subject(s): Family Life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHINDLERJUDEN, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Yesterday, having arrived one hour early Last Line: Derives its ancient invocation, shema, yisrael, from god's lips Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHLOMO VOGELSANG: PRAUGE, AUSCHWITZ, ST. LOUIS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This steamy april a.M. Last Line: And let him bequeath the universe his surname's legacy Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHOOL OF MUSIC, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My first lesson: you won't even let me touch Last Line: For the demanding ears of your father %music that is first of all survival Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 1. STRUCK DUMB, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: For a poet who knoww only loneliness Last Line: He's spoken to no one in seven years Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 2. KAPO POET, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: No matter how assiduously Last Line: Each his own death certificate Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 3. NO REFUGE FOR A REFUGEE POET, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Strange how he can be on vacation six days Last Line: From his memory's craggy pits, %poetry's belzec Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 4. TELEOLOGY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Mobile homes and sparsely settled farmhouses Last Line: By making itself heard in desperate survival-verse Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCHREIBER, BARD OF BELZED: 5. LISTENING TO A VOICE THAT NEVER EXISTED, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He sits in the recording studio with his engineer Last Line: A dead man wrote them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SCLEROTIC, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Sclerotic means the scars are all inside Last Line: Our lives consist of what we choose to hide Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF THE SWASTIKA, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: The first swastika season %I was four Last Line: I never touched them Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 1, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Pale moon, ever coming and going Last Line: Awaken us to the beauty of endless cycles %visible signs of god's eternal love Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 2, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: Somewhere out of time Last Line: A witness to that timeless moment %present now in the light of your torah Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 3, by NANCY LEE GOSSELS Poem Source First Line: The ark is sweet with flowers' scent Last Line: To receive once more the breath of light %in the whispered awakening of dawn Subject(s): Jews - Women SEASONS OF TORAH: 4, by ROSIE ROSENZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Unroll the parchment scroll Last Line: Like the eternal bride and bridegroom joined as one %rejoice! Subject(s): Jews - Women SECOND GENERATION, by MENACHEM Z. ROSENSAFT Poem Source First Line: True, we are the children Last Line: As we add defiant sparks %to an eternal fire Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SECRET JEW, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: Lidless, one of the devils, he is pulling out with my street Last Line: What a secret jew I am Subject(s): Jews SECRETS OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: The pale eyes flashing in his dark face Last Line: They do not know that I am grieving %they do not know I loved you Subject(s): Hallucinations And Illusions; Jews - Women; Meditation; Psychoanalysis; Relationships SEDER-NIGHT, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prosaic miles of streets stretch all around Last Line: Its god shall be the god of all the earth. Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Liberty; Judaism SEE, NADIA!, by PAULETTE M. CALLEN Poem Source First Line: Every night I dream of my husband Last Line: Ah! See, nadia! You are wrong. %see! He comes! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEEING THE DOCUMENTARY BY THE BRITISH LIBERATING BERGEN, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bodies like driftwood Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SELECTION, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: He leapt through %the line Last Line: He was %all right Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SELF-CONDEMNATION, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who condemnest jewish hate Last Line: Without excuse or cloak. Subject(s): Hate; Jews; Judaism 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 SELMA ... A POT OF SOUP ... A BOTTLE OF MILK. LODZ, 1938, by KIRTLAND SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Look %how selma holds Last Line: The mark above her brow %that seems %a bullethole-- %what ofthat? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEMITE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What art and anti-art to lead us by the sharpness Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism SEMITIC INTERLUDE; A SONNET SEQUENCE, by MARTIN FEINSTEIN Poem Text First Line: Pharaoh is mighty on his throne Last Line: But hears the bright voice of the blinded bird. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Jews; Moses; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism SEP-44, by ARNOST LUSTIG Poem Source First Line: I stood in the gypsy camp Last Line: A tune from strauss's die fledermaus %ran through my mind Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEPTEMBER SONG, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War; Shoah; Judaism SEPTEMBER SONG, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undesirable you may have been, untouchable Last Line: This is plenty. This is more than enough Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War SEPTEMBER WIND, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The september wind repeats my brother yukev's Last Line: To come drink water %and eat bread Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SERIATIM, by ROBERT A. FRAUENGLAS Poem Source First Line: Nazis %and friends Last Line: Still strive %to survive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews SERPENT, by NATHAN OF GAZA Poem Source First Line: Messiah Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism SERVANT OF GOD, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O would that I might be Last Line: And draw me near to thee, my king and lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Devotion; God; Jews; Worship; Judaism SETTING SANTAYANA ON THE BACK BURNER, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Beasts of all species Last Line: Dooms them to future lunacies, %bestial catastrophes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Look how evening comes and around us the barbed-wire-hemmed, wild Last Line: Since I can face neither death nor a life any longer without you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yugoslavia SHABBAT SHALOM, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Shabbat draws nigh Last Line: So that my new week may start %in peace Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHADE OF NIGHT, by AMOS NEUFELD Poem Source First Line: I am a shade Last Line: A blade of sadness, %fallen %on the side of the living Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHADOWS OF THE WARSAW GHETTO, by ITZIK FEFFER Poem Source First Line: O lord of creation! Here townspeople lived Last Line: For this is the ghetto, and here is its street Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHARING THE WISDOM, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: You come, old one, %to my bones that ache from Last Line: Your thin frame and silvered mind, %a talisman against growing old Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women SHEBUOTH, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: From dim, dark ages of the past Last Line: The law, to them, was sent from heaven. Subject(s): God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology SHEET OF FOIL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First day of spring on the hill of anemones, masses of scarlet Last Line: Not to disturb her fingers at my back, steadying the wings Subject(s): Arabs; Childhood Memories; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SHELL-FLOWERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the turkeys you raise each year Last Line: How far it would carry you Subject(s): Arabs; Family Life; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women SHEMA, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who live secure / in your warm houses Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SHEMA, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You who live secure %in your warm houses Last Line: Your offspring avert their faces from you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 SHIP, by YURI SUHL Poem Source First Line: This story the billows will tell the sea Last Line: Till the whole world rings with the tale Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHIPMENT TO MAIDANEK, by EPHIM FOGEL Poem Source First Line: Arrived from scattered cities, several lands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War SHMULIK, by DORA TEITELBOIM Poem Source First Line: In the midst of fields and byroads Last Line: And one child - no more than seven - %with a head of hair that's gray Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOA, by MAIRE MHAC AN TSAOI Poem Source First Line: The old jew on all fours Last Line: The brute on his hind legs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOAH, by EMILY BORENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Under an ominous sky trees uprooted themselves Last Line: It was my mother on her knees chanting the last %shema yisroel of the dying Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOEMAKER'S WIFE, by LOTTE KRAMER Poem Source First Line: She came to us walking, at night Last Line: That mastered all our lives Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOFAR ECHOES, by ANNETTE KOHN Poem Text First Line: I'm but a child, and childish toys Last Line: "in ""jacob's goodly tents"" shall dwell." Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Jews; Judaism SHOLEM ALEYKHEM--A JEW, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Who knows from where and how Last Line: As if she wanted to ventilate the house Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky SHOPPING ADVICE, by HENNY WENKART Poem Source First Line: Fresh is much better than frozen Last Line: I have the right Subject(s): Jews - Women SHORT HISTORY OF ISRAEL; NOTES AND GLOSSES (1 - 11), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred generations, yes, a hundred and twenty-five Last Line: And feast because of you %on unleavened bread and herbs Subject(s): Jews SHOWER, by JILL BART Poem Source First Line: It will be a blessing Last Line: I hope it lathers %it feels like stone Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHOWER DUTY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This forlorn wednesday morning Last Line: As he rushes out to catch a breath of air Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SHYLOCK VISITS DACHAU: 1991, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Shylock emerges form brandenburg gate blinking Last Line: Leah's pursed smile reemerging, the black %cloth finally removed Subject(s): Jews - United States SIDE BY SIDE, by ISABELLA ROSA HESS Poem Text First Line: Jew and christian, side by side Last Line: Though a sadness thrills in the springtide air. Alternate Author Name(s): Hadassah Subject(s): Brotherhood; Catholics; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Judaism SIGMUND FREUD AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY-TWO, by JUDD TELLER Poem Source First Line: Birds scream with mama's voice Last Line: Haman. Orel. Esau. Goy Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Charcot, Jean-martin (1825-1893); Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Jews SIGN ON THE NEW BRIDGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: (one place at least) %to heal Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Storms; Wind SIGNAL, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: He awaits a signal of a sort that he thinks cannot be compared Last Line: Fraction of a second is poised on the hair-line edge between being and nonbeing Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SILENT PARTNER, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three meters wide %six meters deep Last Line: Through all the days of my life Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SILK SHIRT, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Tom had a shirt of heavy silk Last Line: To the saint it brings life, and to the villain death Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky SIMCHA, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The men pogo into each other like wind-up toys Last Line: Back into the music, the riot, the sea of hands Subject(s): Jews - United States SIMCHAS TORAH, by JUDAH LEON GORDON Poem Text First Line: Lechayim, my brethren, lechayim, I say! Last Line: Who gave us the law on its parchment scroll. Alternate Author Name(s): Gordon, J. L.; Gordon, Judah Loeb Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Belief; Creed; 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 SIMCHAS TORAH (THE REJOICING OF THE LAW), by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simchas-torah! Skip and hop Last Line: Ten we spend fasting in sackcloth and ashes. Subject(s): Feasts; Jews; Judaism SIMEON SINGER, by JOHN CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, weep not for the dead.' alas! How weak Last Line: "an angel of the lord of hosts is he." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jews; Peace; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism SIMON WOLF, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The measure of a worthy man Last Line: Felix n. Gerson. Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Wolf, Simon (1836-1923); Valor; Bravery; Judaism SIMPLE TRUTHS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When a man has grown a body Last Line: Stupidity that gives him breath, gives him life %as we kille them all, as we killed them all Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SINHALA NEW YEAR 1975, by ANNE RANASINGHE Poem Source First Line: The morning of sinhala new year I went to the market Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE, by E. YANCEY COHEN Poem Text First Line: Sweet blue-eyed charity, devout and calm Last Line: This hero crested with his hundred years! Subject(s): Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Judaism SISTER PROPHECY: A GIFT FOR BONITA'S 32ND BIRTHDAY, by CELIA Y. WEISMAN Poem Source First Line: Round bellied sisters %pose tummy to tummy Last Line: One moon inside both of us now Subject(s): Jews - Women SISTERS, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Married to one man Last Line: Not a man's wife,' %said leah Subject(s): Jews - Women SITE OF THE JEWISH CEMETERY, RACIAZ, POLAND, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Why care that there's a forest here Last Line: My guess is the bones don't miss them %they know -- don't they? -- who they are Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SITTING THIS ONE OUT, by STEVEN SHER Poem Source First Line: Hours from the ceremony, laying out her dress Last Line: Confinement doesn't end, %flashing caution at the celebration Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SIX MILLION, by NAOMI REPLANSKY Poem Source First Line: They entered the fiery furnace Last Line: Whose lightning struck the killers? %whose rain drowned out the fires? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SIX O'CLOCK NEWS, by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: At six o'clock, my mother %always listened to the news Last Line: A final act of love Subject(s): Jews - Women SIXTEEN MINUTES, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There in the sky above lewisburg Last Line: Through all the killing and hounding, we all but worshipped Subject(s): Ireland; Jews; Lewisburg Penitentiary (pennsylvania) SKIN, by SARI FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Mother, they say we never really leave you Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SLEEP, CHILD, by M. SHENKER Poem Source First Line: Sleep, child, sleep; %not in your bed Last Line: We might have wept %for you together Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SMALL NOUNS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could tell you Last Line: Whatever it %was Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SMALL PLEASURES, by NANCY IMBERMAN TAMLER Poem Source First Line: Walking home from schul Last Line: As adorned %as the earth, herself Subject(s): Jews - Women SMOKE, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the stack of a crematory Last Line: All of us are not there as well Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SMOKE ROSE, by ITTAMAR YAOZ-KEST Poem Source First Line: Smoke %rose %in the garden Last Line: In the cool %of the day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SNOW FALLS, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A snow falls in the dusk %and falls Last Line: And will never %again come back Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SO MANY ZEROS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too many zeros %ending with smoke Subject(s): Arabs; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; New Year; Palestine SO OPEN WE CONCEIVE, by CHANA BELL Poem Source First Line: She said you'll find what you need here Last Line: My parents gave birth to their hope %resurrecting life out of ashes %I give birth to you - little tr Subject(s): Jews - Women SO WE GOT OUT OF LEBANON, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His screech his %portentous scold %iyew iyew Subject(s): Arabs; Exiles; Jerusalem; Jews; Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SOAP, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a green jew Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SOAP, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a green jew Last Line: The odor of irish spring, the stench of ivory Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOFTLY, SOFTLY, by SHMERKE KATCHERGINSKY Poem Source First Line: Softly, softly! Let's be silent: %graves are growing here Last Line: Upon your face, %upon your face Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOLITARY ACTS, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And to die Last Line: To sleep a dark rich dreamless sleep %to shelter in me what is left %to strengthen myself for what I Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOLOMON SCHECHTER, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another moses of our race Last Line: You found the manuscript of god. Subject(s): Schechter, Solomon (1847-1915); Jews; Spirituality; Judaism SOLOMON'S SONG, by REGINA MIRIAM BLOCH Poem Text First Line: Hast thou heard the voice of my belov'd Last Line: "ah, when is he returning?" Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Jews; Love; Separation; Isolation; Judaism SOMETHING FLOATS UP, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Something floats up from memory Last Line: A live swan that flutters against %our mouths Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ME BY, by INGE AUERBACHER Poem Source First Line: He was a stranger; we had never met Last Line: His presence assured from year to year. %'something to remember me by!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONDERKOMMANDO, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: The sonderkommando %those prisoners Last Line: The %ovens Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG, by J. L. KUBICEK Poem Source First Line: I sing a song of sorrow Last Line: Me and my friend %as we sit, talk %over a cup of coffee Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I'm thinking of things we can't do Last Line: Mary, he doesn't own you, stay Subject(s): Jews - United States SONG ABOUT YIDDISH, by BINEM HELLER Poem Source First Line: The jews are dead; their language is alive Last Line: And does not know that she's been rooted out Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG AT THE RED SEA, by GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Sing to jehovah, who gloriously triumphs Last Line: He reigns in his glory, through infinite days! Subject(s): Bible; Egypt; God; Jews; Red Sea; Judaism SONG FOR FRIDAY NIGHT, by ISIDORE MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou beautiful sabbath, thou sanctified day Last Line: All eager to greet thee with praise and with song. Subject(s): Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday SONG FOR MY FATHER, by SHARONA BEN-TOV Poem Source First Line: Peace, the hour %when doves crowd the top of the thicket Last Line: Among the grasses of the field Subject(s): Jews - Women SONG IS A MONUMENT, by YALA KORWIN Poem Source First Line: In the old country our bards Last Line: Song is a monument %song is forever Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG OF A JEWISH POET IN 1943, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Am I, then, of all europe's poets, the last? Last Line: The ghetto ablaze, and your kin overseas! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG OF A SUBSTITUTE MOTHER, by AARON KURTZ Poem Source First Line: Life's gone to ruin and rack - Last Line: Hush, my child, my curse - %such is our universe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG OF IRON PAUL, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: That while serving as a guard at Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warriors and chiefs! Should the shaft or the sword Last Line: Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Judaism; Theology 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 SONG OF THE HEBREW SEER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh would that the darkness would cover the face of the land Last Line: The myriad, myriad sounds of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): God; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Judaism; Theology SONG OF THE JEWISH CAPTIVES, by HENRY NEILE Poem Text First Line: We sat us down by babel's streams Last Line: To warble sion's pleasant songs. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism SONG OF THE SLAUGHTERED JEWISH PEOPLE, by ISAAC KATZENELSON Poem Source First Line: I looked out of the window and beheld the hands that struck Last Line: Behold the wagons! Ah, behold the agony, the shame! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONG OF THE SPANISH JEWS, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, dark is the spirit that loves not the land Last Line: And seek not and wish not a lovelier rest. Subject(s): Exiles; Immigrants; Jews; Spain; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Judaism SONG OF THE YELLOW PATCH, by H. LEYVIK Poem Source First Line: How does it look, the yellow patch Last Line: Lies the land, the forbidden land Subject(s): Jews - Persecution SONG WITHOUT A NAME ABOUT A CHILD WITHOUT A NAME, by SIMCHE SNEH Poem Source First Line: A tree on the roadside leans, %leans as if it's crying Last Line: He called - and now lies dead - Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONIA AT 32, by MORRIE WARSHAWSKI Poem Source First Line: The lady never shakes free the ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONNET, by IMMANUEL OF ROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweet gazelle! From thy bewitching eyes Last Line: Beside those eyes all other beauty's vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Immanuel Ben Solomon Of Rome; Immanuel Di Roma Subject(s): Jews; Judaism SONNET, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy spirit, sage, is ever on the wing Last Line: Ye race of priests, ye people of the book! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism SONNET, by RACHEL MORPURGO Poem Text First Line: My soul surcharged with grief now loud complains Last Line: The spinning wheel—then to herself she's true. Alternate Author Name(s): Morpurgo, Rahel Luzzatto Subject(s): Jews; Judaism SONNET, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: I'd write a simple poem, not overlong Last Line: Why listen to an incoherent heart? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONNET, by SARA COPIA SULLAM Poem Text First Line: O lord, thou know'st my inmost hope and / thought Last Line: That thou dost shield me with thy endless might. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism SONNET ADDRESSED TO SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE, by CANON JENKINS Poem Text First Line: If patriarchal days alone were thine Last Line: Leaning on god, to wait the coming day. Subject(s): Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Judaism SONNET FOR SARAH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: No need to cinch her bathrobe belt. She waits Last Line: She thinks, 'why can't it all just melt away?' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine SOUND EVENT: THE SILENT ORCHESTRA, by NACHMAN OF BRATZLAV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Construct an orchestra made up entirely of wooden 'dummy' instruments Alternate Author Name(s): Nachman Of Breslo Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism SOUND THE LOUD TIMBREL; MIRIAM'S SONG, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the loud timbrel o'er egypt's dark sea Last Line: Jehovah has triumph'd, his people are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Jews; Miriam (bible); Religion; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Theology 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 SOUNDING EVENTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sound the words as quickly as possible Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism SOUNDS FROM THE PAST, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sounds from the past %revive in my memory Last Line: Last sparks from a congregation %of extinguished jews Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#2), by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, said a piece of tree bark in the wind, and the night froze Last Line: Colorful yarmulke that lifted the high holy days Subject(s): Skulls; Jews SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night. Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology SOURCES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish scales, wet newspapers, unopened cans Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews - United States SOURCES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish scales, wet newspapers, unopened cans Last Line: But not least, beloved of god. Each other Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews - United States SOUVENIRS, by ELIZABETH ROSNER Poem Source First Line: My father is a chocolate hoarder Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SPAIN:: ANNO 1492, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Torquemada. Now that castile and aragon in holy wedlock Subject(s): Torquemada, Tomas De (1420-1498); Spain; Inquisition; Jews; Judaism SPECIAL REPORT ON THE HOLOCAUST, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Six million jews did not die Last Line: To completion ... One million lives %for each burning prong Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War SPIT, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After this much time, it's still impossible. The ss man with his stiff hair Last Line: Now therefore go,' he said, 'and I will be with thy mouth' Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BARNEY HAINSFEATHER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the excursion train to peoria Last Line: But to be buried here -- ach! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Graveyards; Judaism SPRING, by DAVID HOFSHTEIN Poem Source First Line: Far too wild is this day's wonder, %and for once I can't surrender Last Line: And my hand's a frail defender, %and the sun's an evil wonder Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SPRING'S TABLE, by ROCHEL BOIMVOLL Poem Source First Line: The final volley of the war %subsides; unblemished rolls the sky Last Line: Seemed to her a red poppy bloom Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SPRINGTIME OF A NEO-NAZI, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Spring is any hour Last Line: And a millennium or two to reap all the harvests Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STALIN'S LIBRARY CARD: 5. RITUAL MURDER AMONG THE JEWS, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do not wait until we force you: we will have the final say Last Line: The verdict is final, the case is closed Subject(s): Books; Jews; Russia - Pogroms; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953) STANZAS ON THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this labour of love may a blessing attend Last Line: Nor turn ye from him who now speaketh from heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Conversion; Jews; Judaism STAR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: She made the star too large Last Line: His own star moved. Star of life. %star of death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STATISTICAL CAUSES OF TRAUMATIC SHOCK SYNDROME IN GAZA: CHART 7, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Number of children who experienced a gunshot wound Last Line: Numbering chill %chilling numbness Subject(s): Jews; Medicine STILL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sealed box cars travel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism STILL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In sealed box cars travel Last Line: Cor-rect, cor-rect, crash of silence on silence Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STONE, by BER GREEN Poem Source First Line: It suddenly opened a mouth, and cried Last Line: And its silence horrifies the lands Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STONE OF CHOICE, SELECTION, by KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Damn the one damn Alternate Author Name(s): Kalonymus Ben Kalonymus ben Meir Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism STONES FROM MY PAST, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Memories of my holocaust time Last Line: And let the ripples spread %as they will Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STOP ON THE TOUR, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: We were led to the edge Last Line: Then one of us coughed: %time was nearly up Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews STRENGTH, by LEYB KVITKO Poem Source First Line: The rock is strong - %but steel will crack it Last Line: His glorious deed - %is stronger than death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SUBWAY SONG, by LUCY COHEN SCHMEIDLER Poem Source First Line: Big black man hugging the subway pole Last Line: Keep my mouth closed %and my eyes elsewhere Subject(s): Jews - Women SUCCOTH, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: What offerings can we bring thee, lord? Last Line: And best ripe fruits were gifts to thee! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism SUN AND I, by RACHEL FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I am sunned %sunned through Last Line: Or receive the light Subject(s): Jews - Women SUN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: You remember the sun of auschwitz Last Line: As your body, you look into my eyes %and call me with the whole world Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SUN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TADEUSZ BOROSKI Poem Source First Line: You remember the sun of auschwitz Last Line: And call me with the whole world Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SUNDAY, by MARCIA G. ROSEN Poem Source First Line: Alone on sunday %I envy you Last Line: Because I felt so lonely %with you Subject(s): Jews - Women SUNFLOWERS, by DINA ELENBOGEN Poem Source First Line: The sunflowers are turning Last Line: Shabbat is too long with so much sun, %too long without flowers, with broken wings Subject(s): Jews - Women; Sunflowers 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 SUPPLICATION, by R. JOSE BEN JOSE Poem Text First Line: Our sins are many, and we sigh Last Line: Thy mercy is for ever sure! Subject(s): Jews; Mercy; Redemption; Sin; Judaism SURVIVOR, by RUTH (WASBY) FELDMAN Poem Source First Line: They would have mourned him, dead Last Line: The ones on whom his stubborn shadow fell, %heartily wished him dead and safe in hell Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by BARBARA GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: They say I should feed you, %child with the gift of tongues Last Line: Through this forest %swinging his ax Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews SURVIVOR, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once more he sees his companions' faces Last Line: Eat, drink, sleep and put on clothes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mourning SURVIVOR, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nimes, august, 1966, and I Last Line: Onward toward the heart %where there is no rest Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by JOHN CHRISTOPHER PINE Poem Source First Line: She learned early that in order to survive Last Line: The earth without even a whitish sliver %of bone to be remembered by Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: I am twenty-four %led to slaughter Last Line: Led to slaughter %I survived Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by BARRY STERNLIEB Poem Source First Line: He stands on the bridge Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SURVIVOR, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER First Line: He knows the depths of smokestacks Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism SURVIVOR, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: He knows the depths of smokestacks Last Line: The deep oven where his mother baked bread Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SUSAN DANCES, by BETH JOSELOW Poem Source First Line: Maybe it was in all of her dancing Last Line: And knows that practicing %is all there is Subject(s): Jews - Women SWEET SIXTEEN, by VERA WEISLITZ Poem Source First Line: Behind the wall %I wish I had wings Last Line: The sign of condemnation -- %the yellow star! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SWORD WITH WINGS, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: In dream and in reality you sent the lord of woe Last Line: It was the lord of woe who made my dower %this awesome power Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SYMPATHY, by CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN Poem Source First Line: We had a store, a house, a maid Last Line: You jews! She said. Imagine that. That's how it was Subject(s): Household Employees; Jews SYNAGOGUE, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Standing on a quiet street Last Line: What we do, we do-- %but candles we bless! Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky; Synagogues SYNAGOGUE OF FLORENCE, by LENA LONDON CHARNEY Poem Source First Line: From michelangelo square I feast Last Line: I saw the ark doors open, %display the replaced torahs Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SYNOGOGUE IN PRAGUE, by ALAN SILLITOE Poem Source First Line: Killers said %before they used their slide-rules Last Line: In the land of israel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TADZHIO! TADZHIO!, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tadzhio! Tadzhio! %a mother called Last Line: Blonde, golden polish boy, %did you too help slaughter jews? Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TAH SHEMA, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Come, come and listen Last Line: On whose tree %it grew? Subject(s): Jews - Women TAILINGS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin placed a palm flat on the gideon Last Line: This is the truth, so help me god Subject(s): Clergy; Jews TAILOR, by PATRICIA GARFINKEL Poem Source First Line: Ulezalka, ulezalka, %your head, laced with cancerous Last Line: The final stitches in my wedding %dress the thread rose and floated %through the open window Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Marriage; Tailors TAKING LEAVE, by CAROL GANZER Poem Source First Line: When they came %for us, it was Last Line: Your cheek, mother, %your hand waving us %into the street... Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: THE LEGEND OF RABBI BEN LEVY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbi ben levi, on the sabbath, read Last Line: And walks on earth unseen forevermore. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE THIRD DAY: AZRAEL, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King solomon, before his palace gate Last Line: "I was upon my way to seek him there." Variant Title(s): The Spanish Jew's Tale: Azrael Subject(s): Jews; Judaism TANKS INTO PLOWSHARES, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Another war has broken out Last Line: Not to learn war anymore Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TASHLICH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the ocean and throw the crumbs in Last Line: He will broil my sins for supper Subject(s): Rites & Ceremonies; Jews TATTOO, by GREGG SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: My father won't talk about the numbers Last Line: I would scrub the numbers from his arm, %extinguish the fire and give him back his life Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TATTOOS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Even though the incident occurred last week Last Line: To a nazi perpetrator too Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TCHAI AT UNCLE'S, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: A child among the chink of china Last Line: Stop the smarting. His smile remains Subject(s): Jews; Medicine TEACHER MIRA, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: With patches of yellow to cover our bones Last Line: But tall in the dew of the dawn she will tower! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TEARING OF THE MIND / URI ZVI GREENBERG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody cries money! Even the bums Last Line: My whole family does it Subject(s): Greenberg, Uri Zvi (1898-1981); Jews TELL ME, GOOD FRIENDS, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: Good friends, %what are we to do? Last Line: Why are you silent? %where are you? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TELL ME, O GAZELLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women TENDER SAPLING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women TEPHILLIN, by AARON SCHAFFER Poem Text First Line: Erect he stands, in fervent prayer Last Line: Knows all he can and e'er will know. Subject(s): God; Jews; Prayer; Judaism TEREZIN, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In your watercolor, nely silvinova Last Line: And your heart on fire %nely silvinova Variant Title(s): Theresienstadt Poe Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TERMINAL CUISINE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Allow me to second his opting against Last Line: A bon appetit and farewell Subject(s): Jews; Medicine TERMINAL SURVIVOR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Another hapless saturday Last Line: Whenever he seeks sleep to escape night's sterile despair Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TERRIFIED MEADOWS, by WILLIAM PILLEN Poem Source First Line: My nights are haunted by footsteps Last Line: Only her screams %stabbed the blue vastness. %a long time ago. In a far land Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TERROR, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dream of the jews Subject(s): Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Mysticism - Judaism; Terrorism; Judaism; Arab-israeli Conflict TESTIMONY, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No no: they definitely were Last Line: Without image or likeness Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews TESTIMONY, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time Last Line: For if we shoah survivors don't tell, %then who will Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THANKSGIVING, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: It rained the whole day Last Line: And it put the red haze to sleep Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky THE 'MOSES' OF MICHAEL ANGELO, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who is he that, sculptured in huge stone Last Line: Had been your error in adoring him. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Jews; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Moses; Sculpture & Sculptors; Judaism THE 16-YEAR OLD POET, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the prince the song Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Judaism THE ACTS OF SAINT JOHN: THE ROUND DANCE OF JESUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A praise poem Last Line: Understand & say / amen Subject(s): Jesus Christ;jews;messiah;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism 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 ALPHABET, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The letters of the jews as strict as flames Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE ALPHABET OF BEN SIRA: THE BIRTH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "as it is written, he doeth great things past finding out" Last Line: Meat oil & wine & she nourished him Subject(s): "ben Sira (hebrew Scribe, 2d Century Bc);jews;mysticism - Judaism;" Judaism THE AMEN STONE, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On my desk there is a stone with the word “amen” on it Last Line: A jigsaw puzzle. Child’s play Subject(s): Jews; Ancestors & Ancestry; Judaism; Heritage; Heredity THE AMERICAN JEWESS, by ALBERT ULMANN Poem Text First Line: O youngest daughter of thy ancient race Last Line: And make of each a better man, a worthier jew. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Jews In America; Judaism THE ANGEL, by DOROTHY S. SILVERMAN Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I saw an angel in the sky Last Line: And with a sigh, she floated far away. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jews; Paradise; Judaism THE ANGEL OF TRUTH, by LEOPOLD STEIN Poem Text First Line: Once th' omnipotent maker of world without end Last Line: And his sovereign law all his creatures obey. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Jews; Justice; Paradise; Judaism THE APOSTATE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, hypocrite harry, that hamburg hand-kisser Last Line: Bless the poet, heinrich, as he blesses you. Subject(s): Christianity; Conversion; Hypocrisy; Jews; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Judaism; Feminism THE ARCH OF TITUS, by HARRY AUSTRYN WOLFSOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling, age-worn, in rome the eternal Last Line: Shouldering their holy menorah. Subject(s): Jews; Titus, Emperor Of Rome (39-81 A.d.); 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 AUTO-DA-FE; A LEGEND OF SPAIN, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a moody air, from morn till noon Last Line: Until, like sir robert, 'I'm duly call'd in!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Inheritance And Sucession; Inquisition; Spain; Jews; Judaism 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 BALLAD OF EPHRON, PRINCE OF TOPERS, by IMMANUEL OF ROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come listen to a merry song about a merry / wight Last Line: Nor he, nor we, shall crave in vain for water! Alternate Author Name(s): Immanuel Ben Solomon Of Rome; Immanuel Di Roma Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Repentance; Sin; Water; Judaism; Penitence THE BALLADE OF DEAD CITIES; TO ANDREW LANG, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the cities of the plain? Last Line: Where are the cities of old time? Subject(s): Cities; Jews; Urban Life; 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 BENEDICTION, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: There's a memory that sweetens Last Line: And heaven's own surcease. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Peace; Paradise; Judaism THE BIBLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this book-this holy book, on every line" Last Line: "and earnest sighs, to read, believe and live" Subject(s): Bible;books;jews;religion; Reading;judaism;theology THE BIBLE, by RICHARD BARTON Poem Text First Line: Lamp of my feet, whereby we trace Last Line: Our anchor and our stay! Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLE, by DAVID LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to an ancient temple Last Line: Lift purified to heaven! Subject(s): Bible; Creation; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE BIBLE, by PHOEBE PALMER Poem Text First Line: Blessed bible! How I love it! Last Line: Sweeter still thy truths shall be! Subject(s): Bible; Books; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE BIRD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sang heinrich, I would fly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE BOOK, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I held it in my hands while he told the story Subject(s): Books; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Reading; Shoah; Judaism THE BOOK OF GOD, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy thoughts are here, my god Last Line: The church's heritage. Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Worship; Judaism; Theology THE BOOK OF MYSTERIES: RITES FOR THE SUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fourth heaven heaven of the angels of the sun lies stretched out Last Line: Amen selah Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;sun; Judaism THE BOOK OF THE LETTER, SELECTION, by ABRAHAM ABULAFIA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And adonai said to Alternate Author Name(s): Abulafia, Abraham Ben Samuel Subject(s): Cabbala; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Kabbala; Kabbalah; Judaism THE BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism THE BURNING OF THE LAW, by MEIR BEN BARUCH OF ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ask, is it well, o thou consumed of fire Last Line: Thy darkness bright. Subject(s): Jews; Judgments; 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 CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE CHIEF AMONG TEN THOUSAND (SONG OF SOLOMON), by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold thou art all fair, my love Last Line: And eat his fruits of love. Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Heaven; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Paradise; 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 CHOSEN, by ELIZABETH MCMURTRIE DINWIDDIE Poem Text First Line: Chosen of old, the guardians of the law Last Line: The freedom of the strong. Subject(s): Clergy; History; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Judaism THE CID AND THE JEW, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The cid, stern victor in each fight Last Line: Entered a convent's gloom. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hero-worship; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE CODE OF DAY & NIGHT: A FRAGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: * * ... / h Last Line: Of darkness I part in the house of light a man ... Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE COMMANDMENT OF FORGETFULNESS, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbi ben zadok, o'er the sacred law Last Line: Thus evermore rejoice in serving thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Clergy; God; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE COSSACKS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For jews, the cossacks are always coming. Subject(s): Paranoia; Jews; Conduct Of Life; Judaism THE COVENANT OF SINAI, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: Lo, this is the law that I gave you Last Line: And harkened forever to me. Subject(s): Jews; Sinai, Mount; Judaism THE CROWING OF THE RED COCK, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the eastern sky has glowed Last Line: His nobler task is -- to forget. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Jews; Judaism THE CRUCIFIX IN THE FILING CABINET, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the filing cabinet of true steel Subject(s): Cross, The; Jews; 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 CRY OF RACHEL, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the dark; I beat on the floor Last Line: Let me in, death. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism THE DANCE OF DEATH, by SEM TOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I am death! With aim as sure as steady Last Line: Even then shall hope and joy our footsteps bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Santob De Carrion; Santo, Don Subject(s): Death; Jews; Dead, The; 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 DAY OF REST, by GUSTAV GOTTHEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, o sabbath day, and bring Last Line: Thou shalt rest. Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday THE DEAD SINGER, by ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS Poem Text First Line: Once more a singing soul's most airy Last Line: Like a rare urn with flowers. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement THE DESTROYING ANGEL, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stopped at last Last Line: The mighty mystery through its humble sign. Subject(s): Jews; Troy; Judaism THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave Last Line: For jacob's weary tribes are free! Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Mourning; Judaism; Bereavement THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, Last Line: Hath melted like snow in the glance of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sennacherib Subject(s): Assyria; Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; War; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE DIRTY WORD, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dirty word hops into the cage of the mind Subject(s): Jews; Birds; Survival; Judaism THE EIGHT CHANUKAH LIGHTS, by ISIDORE MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With fervor and joy we give thanks to the lord Last Line: To serve the one god and to walk in his light. Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Hanukkah; Heaven; Heroism; Jews; Light; Paradise; Heroes; Heroines; 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 EPIC OF KING KISHVAR: THE CASTLE, by MAULANA SAHIN Poem Text First Line: High & green Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; 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 EVIL EYE (THE GOOD EYE) EINHORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The child frets / yawns / or cringes a lot Last Line: Shall she receive an evil eye Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS; TO DONALD JUSTICE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand years from now / they will be remembered as heroes Last Line: Continues ceasing and ceasing. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Survival; Shoah; Judaism THE FAITHFUL BRIDE; A MIDRASHIC PARABLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There is a legend (and 'tis quaintly sweet) Last Line: "'thy law, o lord, which was my joy, my all!'" Subject(s): Faith;jews;legends; Belief;creed;judaism THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem! Jerusalem! / thou art low; thou Last Line: Th' unfading splendours of his son! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism THE FALSE HOPE, by HORACE MEYER KALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw the heavy eyelids rise Last Line: Horace m. Kallen. Subject(s): Jews; Zionism; Judaism THE FAST OF TEBETH, by JOSEPH BEN SAMUEL BONFILS Poem Text First Line: Lo! I recall the siege which fell on me Last Line: "who saith: ""ye waves, but so far shall ye come." Alternate Author Name(s): Tob Elem, Joseph Bar Samuel Subject(s): Affliction; Jews; Sin; 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 FREEDOM, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I remember in my childhood Last Line: "of a spring of long ago. ..." Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Feasts; Freedom; Jews; Passover; Liberty; 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 FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FIELD OF GILBOA, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun of the morning looked forth from his throne Last Line: Thy flocks to decay and thy forests to wither. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FIRST SONG OF MOSES, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the praises of the lord be sung Last Line: The seed of israel safe and dry-shod came. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Moses; Judaism THE FORGOTTEN RABBI, by G. M. H. Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben shalom's wisdom none but his / scholars know Last Line: Whoso gainsays their folly grudges his master peace! Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Memory; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE FOUR MISFORTUNES; A HEBREW TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pious rabbi, forced by heathen hate Last Line: "that god is good, and all is for the best!" Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE GEZER CALANDAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The moons of harvest Last Line: A / b / g Subject(s): Calendars;jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE GHETTO-JEW, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: I marked in the midst of the glittering throng Last Line: A jeer be the last of its pages? Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): History; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Memory; Old Age; Historians; Judaism THE GHOST OF SOULMAKING: FOR RUTH OPPENHEIM, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ghost appears in the dark of winter Subject(s): Ghosts; Jews; Supernatural; Judaism THE GIFT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1945, when the keepers cried kaput Last Line: Is the gift beyond history and hurt and heaven Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE GLORY OF GOD, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it thus, stricken remnant, the glory of god Last Line: "and the same ""fire from heaven"" illumines thee yet." Subject(s): God; Jews; Judaism THE GREAT LAMENT; FOR THE RABBIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the columns of caesarea ran with tears, roof gutters ran with blood, stars" Last Line: The palms were laden with thorns Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE GUARDIAN OF THE RED DISK (SPOKEN BY A CITIZEN OF MALTA - 1300), by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curious title held in high repute Last Line: Guarding the red disk—lest one rogue escape! Subject(s): Catholics; Clergy; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE HA' BIBLE, by ROBERT NICOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I could worship thee! Last Line: A sunbeam sent from god,—an everlasting bow! Subject(s): Bible; Books; God; Jews; Religion; Reading; Judaism; Theology THE HARD BARGAIN, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a pawnshop on lucky street Last Line: All say he drives a hard bargain. Subject(s): Jews; Pawnshops; Usury; Judaism; Pawnbrokers THE HARP OF DAVID, by JEHOASH Poem Text First Line: When the night her vision is weaving Last Line: Is a youthful poet again! Alternate Author Name(s): Joash Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE HARP OF FAITH, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight, so the rabbis tell Last Line: Resound in glad refrain. Subject(s): Faith; Jews; Belief; Creed; Judaism THE HARP OF ZION, by JAMES WILLIS Poem Text First Line: The harp of zion sleepeth Last Line: The wanderer to restore! Subject(s): Galilee, Palestine; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism THE HARVESTING OF THE ROSES, by MENAHEM IBN SARUK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From his garden bed our lord Last Line: They were in death to him restored. Alternate Author Name(s): Menahem Ben Saruq; Menahem Ben Jacob Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Jews; Roses; Dead, The; Judaism 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 HEBREW MIND, by M. L. R. BRESLAR Poem Text First Line: Gifts, as romantic as the cruse of oil Last Line: And forged that wondrous thing, the hebrew mind. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE HEBREW MINSTREL'S LAMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from the hills of the west, as the sun's setting / beam" Last Line: On the bosoms that bled for their country and god' Subject(s): Jews;judah (bible); Judaism THE HEBREW MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose was in rich bloom on sharon's plain Last Line: "the rock of strength. -- farewell!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jews; Mothers; Judaism THE HEBREW'S FRIDAY NIGHT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'come, my beloved, to meet the bride; the face" Last Line: The sweet humanities which make our higher life Subject(s): Brides;jews;love - Marital;sabbath; Judaism;wedded Love;marriage - Love;sunday THE HIGH-PRIEST TO ALEXANDER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth, thou man of force! Last Line: In his holy of holies for ever! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Jews; Judaism THE HOLY FLAME, 'MENORAH', by GEORGE JAY HOLLAND Poem Text First Line: Thou sacred flame, so mellow and subdued Last Line: "and breathe with god: ""let there be light." Subject(s): God; Jews; Light; Spirituality; Synagogues; Judaism THE HYMN OF GLORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sweet hymns I chant, and weave melodious / songs" Last Line: "to lift my heart to thee, for whom I long" Subject(s): God;jews;praise;singing & Singers; Judaism THE HYMN OF GLORY, by JUDAH BEN SAMUEL HE-ASID OF REGENSBURG Poem Text First Line: Sweet hymns shall be my chant and woven songs Last Line: For all my being is athirst for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Judah He-hasid Subject(s): God; Jews; Prayer; Singing & Singers; Worship; Judaism; Songs 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 INFLUENCE COMING INTO PLAY: THE SEVEN OF PENTACLES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a sky the color of pea soup Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 IYYOB TRANSLATION FROM 'A-15', by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An / hinny / by / stallion Last Line: White pods of honesty / satinflower Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE JEW, by HELEN BEAN BYERLY Poem Text First Line: A good samaritan passed on the way Last Line: He'll open them to swastika or cross! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE JEW, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, from whose loins I sprung Last Line: Then why do they sneer at me? Subject(s): Bible; Freedom; Jews; Religion; Soldiers' Writings; Liberty; Judaism; Theology THE JEW (DEDICATED TO BENJAMIN F. PEIXOTTO), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His dark face kindled in the east Last Line: Art, toil, and hope shall purify. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin (1834-1890); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE JEW AND THE ROOSTER ARE ONE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After fighting with his dead brothers and his dead sisters Subject(s): Soutine, Chaim (1893-1943); Paintings & Painters; Jews; Butchery; Judaism THE JEW IN AMERICA, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wing thee, my song, and in majestic flight Last Line: We shall emerge, unchanged, to face our god. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - United States; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Right To Asylum; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism 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 OF MALTA, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Albeit the world thinks machiavel is dead Last Line: Neither to fate nor fortune, but to heaven. [exeunt. Subject(s): Jews; Malta; Revenge; Judaism THE JEW TO JESUS, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O man of my own people, I alone Last Line: A thousand times have we been crucified. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE JEW TO THE GENTILE, by SARA MESSING STERN Poem Text First Line: The priest bent angry gaze upon the jew Last Line: "can bring more souls to god than all man's creed." Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Christianity; Jews; Religious Discrimination; Judaism; Religious Conflict 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 JEW'S GIFT; A.D. 1200, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abbot willed it, and it was done Last Line: "well, well! Since he gave his beard to the birds!" Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE JEWESS, by ALLAN DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Her hair is winged with summer nights Last Line: The story of her race. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Judaism THE JEWESS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother she in israel Last Line: Of eden and gethsemane. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Jews - Women THE JEWESS OF TOLEDO, by FRANZ GRILLPARZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back, go back, and leave the garden Last Line: Curtain Subject(s): Jews; Spain; Tragedy; Judaism THE JEWISH CAPTIVE'S SONG, by MARION MOSS Poem Text First Line: Gone is thine hour of might Last Line: O'er the scattering of their race. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Judah (bible); Dead, The; Judaism THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange it seems! These hebrews in their graves Last Line: And the dead nations never rise again. Subject(s): Bible; Cemeteries; Jews; Newport, Rhode Island; Religion; Social Protest; Graveyards; Judaism; Theology THE JEWISH CONSCRIPT; IN RUSSIA, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text First Line: They have dressed me up in a soldier's dress Last Line: He also died in vain. Subject(s): Jews; Russia - Army-military Life; World War I; Judaism; First World War THE JEWISH EXILE, by LEON HUHNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore weep our brethren yonder Last Line: Israel and jerusalem. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; 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 JEWISH MARTYRS, by W. V. B. Poem Text First Line: From far siberia's frozen plains Last Line: Among our myriad hero-graves? Subject(s): Jews; Martyrs; Judaism THE JEWISH MAY, by MORRIS ROSENFELD Poet's Biography First Line: May has come from out the showers Subject(s): Jews; May (month); Judaism THE JEWISH MOTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A star of guidance o'er life's troubled ocean Last Line: Keeps evermore the day of holy rest Subject(s): Jews;jews - Women;mothers; Judaism THE JEWISH MOTHER AND HER SONS BEFORE ANTIOCHUS, by R. MANAHAN Poem Text First Line: The sun shone bright upon a kingly throne Last Line: "thou gavest one, I seven to god!"" and so she died." Subject(s): Courage; Jews; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Judaism THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, 5660, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When chaos lay beneath god's hand Last Line: Will bless you in your works and ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Holidays; Jews; Memory; New Year; Peace; Judaism THE JEWISH PILGRIM, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the ancient holy hills Last Line: Oh! Give the wanderer room. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Exodus From Egypt; Palestine; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Judaism THE JEWISH SOLDIER (1), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother england, mother england, 'mid the / thousands Last Line: England say! Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Great Britain - Civil War; Heroism; Jews; Right To Asylum; Soldiers; English Civil War; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE JEWISH SOLDIER (2), by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the walls of plevna, not fifty yards away Last Line: And on gatschina's palace forevermore they lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE JEWS, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor nation, whose sweet sap and juice Last Line: That your sweet sap might come again! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE JEWS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the fair year Last Line: The lost son by the newly found. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE JEWS IN RUSSIA, by EDWARD DOYLE Poem Text First Line: From town and village to a wood, stript bare Last Line: "till they draw lightning from jehovah's eyes." Subject(s): Jews; Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians 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 JEWS OF ENGLAND (1200-1902), by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An edward's england spat us out-a band Last Line: Her triumph o'er her own intolerance. Subject(s): Battleships; History; Jews; Right To Asylum; War; Historians; Judaism THE JEWS WEEPING IN JERUSALEM, by JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN Poem Text First Line: Why, trembling and sad, dost thou stand there Last Line: And sorrow and sighing shall vanish away. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Pain; Zionism; Judaism; Suffering; Misery THE JEWS' CEMETERY ON THE LIDO, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tract of land swept by the salt seafoam Last Line: Wept by no mourner but the moaning wave. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Jews; Lido (island), Italy; Graveyards; Dead, The; 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 KISHINEFF MASSACRE, by ROSE STRAUSS Poem Text First Line: O lord, thy righteous wrath and vengeance pour Last Line: Will not be deaf, but with thy thunder smite. Subject(s): Jews; Massacres; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE KISS OF GOD, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the great leader's task was done Last Line: It is not hard to die. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement THE LAMENTATION OF DAVID OVER SAUL AND JONATHAN HIS SON, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy beauty, israel, is gone Last Line: How warlike instruments decay! Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jews; Jonathan (bible); Judaism THE LAMPS ARE BURNING, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jews; Religion; Anti-semitism; Judaism; Theology THE LAST SABBATH LIGHT, by HENRY ROSENBLATT Poem Text First Line: The last lone sabbath candle sheds Last Line: "and build a star in heaven." Subject(s): Jews; Light; Sabbath; Stars; Judaism; Sunday THE LATTER DAY, by THOMAS HASTINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to the brightness of zion's glad morning Last Line: Shouts of salvation are rending the sky! Variant Title(s): Missionary Success Subject(s): Jews; Missionaries & Missions; Zionism; Judaism THE LAY OF THE LEVITE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound that's dear to me Last Line: Of 'clo!--old clo!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE LENT JEWELS; A JEWISH APOLOGUE, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In schools of wisdom all the day was spent Last Line: Which god had lent him, and resumed anew. Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Wisdom; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE LITTLE JEW, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were at school together Last Line: The little jew and I. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Friendship; Jews; Judaism THE LIVING GOD, by ABRAHAM IBN EZRA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thirst for god, to him my soul aspires Last Line: Thy hand to all that live. Subject(s): Desire; God; Jews; Judaism THE LOAN, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi meir, / a black cap on his white hair Last Line: "should be restored." Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE MACCABEAN, by HORACE MEYER KALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whether of fate, or by the hand of man Last Line: Flash like the sun into the clouded sky. Subject(s): Fate; Heroism; Jews; Destiny; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism THE MACCABEAN CALL, by EMIL GUSTAV HIRSCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of dense darkness, stress of the ages Last Line: Join thee, god's priest, at thy altared light! Subject(s): Clergy; Heroism; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Heroes; Heroines; 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 MAGIC WORDS, by MELVIN G. WINSTOCK Poem Text First Line: The scene of conflict was a level plain Last Line: And wept. The soldier now, alas! Was dead. Subject(s): Hebrew Literature; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Judaism THE MAID OF THE GHETTO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sad eyes and dark she bends upon the throng Last Line: Some judith with a falchion in her hands? Subject(s): Jews;jews - Women; Judaism THE MAIDEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I would sing of Last Line: O father of truths o mother of knowing Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; 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 MELTING POT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bearded old patriarchs, flippant young men Last Line: Heart of the ghetto on saturday night! Subject(s): Ghettos; Jews; Poverty; Weariness; Judaism; Fatigue 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 MESSENGER, by O. B. MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben josef, old and blind Last Line: "should prove a messenger from me." Subject(s): Angels; Clergy; Heaven; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Paradise; 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 MISER, by BEN ZED Poem Text First Line: A miser once dreamed he had given away Last Line: That as long as he lived he would slumber no more. Subject(s): Jews; Misers; Selfishness; Judaism THE MOABITESS, by PHILLIPS BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet moab gleaner on old israel's plain Last Line: And god himself smiles on their godlike beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism 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 NEW EZEKIEL, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, can these dead bones live, whose sap is dried Last Line: And I shall place you living in your land. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Dead, The; Judaism THE NEW JEWISH HOSPITAL AT HAMBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hospital for jews who're sick and needy Last Line: His brethren's great, incurable misfortune. Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Hospitals; Jews; Judaism THE NEW JEWISH HOSPITAL AT HAMBURG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hospital for the poor and weary jew Last Line: For his poor brethren's immedicable ill. Subject(s): Hamburg, Germany; Hospitals; Jews; Judaism THE NEW TEMPLE, by LOUIS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: A new shrine stands in beauty reared Last Line: With concord and with peace. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Praise; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some of us believe Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts & Feasts; Ford, Edward ('whitey'); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur; Judaism THE NIGHT PRAYER, by FLORENCE WEISBERG Poem Text First Line: The bands of sleep fall on mine eyes Last Line: From thee we draw each breath. Subject(s): God; Jews; Peace; Prayer; 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 NUMBERS, by MARIA HEBREA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 2 are 1 Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Jews; Mary The Jewess (1st Century); Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE OLD BOOK, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O book of books, and friend of friends alone Last Line: Thy radiant light is ever shining there Subject(s): Bible - Old Testament; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE OLD JEW, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No fawn-tinged hospital pajamas Last Line: They dwindled while he soared. Subject(s): Jews; Revolutions; Judaism THE OLIVE TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Save for a lusterless honing-stone of moon Subject(s): Jews; Olive Trees & Olives; Judaism THE OMER, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: So, lord, teach us to number our days Last Line: Takes new life in god's springtime again. Subject(s): Immortality; Jews; Judaism THE OUTGOING OF SABBATH, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows have taken the place of the sun Last Line: The last strain of sabbath's zemiroth is sung. Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Sabbath; Shadows; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE PASSING OF RABBI ASSI, by EDWIN POND PARKER Poem Text First Line: Outworn by studious toil and age Last Line: To hear his counsel, let him hear! Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Legends; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE PASSOVER, by R. E. S. Poem Text First Line: Tis night, dark night! A solemn stillness reigns Last Line: "they sang to him who triumphed gloriously." Subject(s): God; Jews; Passover; Judaism THE PERSECUTED JEW, by STEPHEN TAYLOR DEKINS Poem Text First Line: When strife is rampant in the world Last Line: And lead them to the golden gate. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Judaism THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S ANNUAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are returning to new england for two weeks! My sister Last Line: Throughout the afternoon. Subject(s): Aging; Love - Erotic; Jews; Marriage; Mayas; Mexico; Morality; Photography & Photographers; Poetry & Poets; Vermont; World War Ii; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Ethics; Second World War THE PLEDGE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: These are the words of your judiths Last Line: New legions, their own unborn sons. Subject(s): Jews; Judith (bible); Miriam (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism THE PLEDGE OF BENJAMIN, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Israel spoke, in his voice a burr Last Line: He heard leah's voice, he went in to her. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE POET'S SOUL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Would you know the poet's soul Last Line: For such was king david's soul Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.);jews;poetry & Poets; Judaism 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 PRAYER OF SOLOMON AT THE CONSECRATION OF THE TEMPLE, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gorgeous structure! Rich with fretted gold Last Line: And when thou hearest, forgive, and grant us rest. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Prayer; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Paradise; Judaism THE PRAYER OF THE HIGH PRIEST (100 YEARS B.C.E.), by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON Poem Text First Line: The high priest at the altar lingering stood Last Line: "than thou, the least." Subject(s): Clergy; God; Jews; Prayer; Synagogues; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE PRIDE OF A JEW, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With all my heart, in truth, and passion strong Last Line: And sing thy praises, o my song, alway! Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jews; Praise; Judaism THE PRIPET MARSHES, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I think of my jewish friends and seize them as they are Last Line: I sink down as though drugged or beaten Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism THE PROMISED LAND, by JESSIE E. SAMPTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little land of lapping seas Last Line: Sound peace upon his hill. Subject(s): God; Jews; Nations; Peace; Zionism; Judaism THE RABBI'S PRESENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a rabbi once, by all admired" Last Line: And so by chance thought all the others Subject(s): Clergy;jews; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism THE RABBI'S PRESENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a rabbi once, by all admired" Last Line: And so by chance thought all the others Subject(s): Clergy;jews; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stood a damsel very early Subject(s): Jews; Marriage; Sons-in-law; Love - Complaints; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE RABBI'S SONG, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thought ever reach to heaven Last Line: Be not expelled from him. Subject(s): Bible; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE RABBI'S VISION, by FRANCES BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ben levi sat with his books alone Last Line: "but—""beware of broken vows!" Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Jews; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; 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 RIGHT OF ASYLUM, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Easy the cry, while vengeance now is wrought Last Line: This old sea-haven to world-misery? Subject(s): Freedom; Jews; Right To Asylum; Liberty; Judaism THE ROSE OF SHARON, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In his chamber sat the rabbi Last Line: "and forgets its olden sorrows." Subject(s): Friendship; Jews; Knights & Knighthood; Judaism THE ROSE OF SHARON, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: Oh! I love to roam in fancy o'er the hills where Last Line: For our god has made our mission not for us but for all men. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Jews; Nature; Palestine; Roses; Judaism THE ROYAL CROWN, by ISRAEL ABRAHAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My god, I know that those who plead Last Line: Israel abrahams. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Jews; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism THE ROYAL CROWN, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I stand before thee, lord, and I am Last Line: Before thy might in awe I stand, bowed low unto the ground! Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; God; Jews; Sin; Eve; Judaism THE RULER OF THE NATIONS, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord hath set me o'er the kings of earth Last Line: "and it is so; my words are sacraments divine." Subject(s): Jews; Nations; Judaism THE RUSSIAN JEWISH RABBI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "old and gray, his shoulders bent" Last Line: In your heart a deathly moan Subject(s): Clergy;jews;russia;sabbath; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism;soviet Union;russians;sunday THE SABBATH, by NINA DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Not for us the sabbath of the quiet streets Last Line: Ours 'tis to bear the sabbath in our souls. Subject(s): Jews; Rest; Sabbath; Silence; Judaism; Sunday THE SABBATH DAY-KIDDUSH AND HABDALAH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Thou sweet sabbath of rest! Priceless gift from / above! Last Line: "while a creature incarnate, a foretaste of heaven" Subject(s): Angels;faith;jews;messengers;sabbath; Belief;creed;judaism;sunday THE SABBATH EVE, by SAMUEL WILLOUGHBY DUFFIELD Poem Text First Line: In quaint old talmud's pages Last Line: "his sorrowful, ""amen!" Subject(s): Jews; Sabbath; Judaism; Sunday THE SABBATH LAMP, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Shine, sabbath lamp, oh shine with tender ray! Last Line: And light our souls to find the road to heaven. Subject(s): Faith; Jews; Sabbath; Belief; Creed; Judaism; Sunday THE SAVING WAY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little girl was told that the sun someday Last Line: To invent our lives from these rich hours of woe? Subject(s): Dramatists; Girls; Jews; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Judaism; Dramatists THE SEA OF THE TALMUD, by JOSEPH LEISER Poem Text First Line: The moon is up, the stars shine bright Last Line: That sails this vast rabbinic sea. Subject(s): Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Judaism; Seamen; Sails THE SEARCH FOR LEAVEN, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a tender, loving maiden Last Line: Often dreaming on the broom. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Jews; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Judaism 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 SEEING EYE, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an eye that never sleeps Last Line: That love is throned beyond the sky. Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Love; Paradise; Judaism THE SENTINEL OF THE AGES, by IBBIE MCCOLM WILSON Poem Text First Line: Under shining, under shadow Last Line: Brother to the prince of peace. Subject(s): Fate; God; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Destiny; Judaism THE SHOSHANAH, by GEORGE E. CHODOWSKY Poem Text First Line: A lily lies broken and bare on a highway Last Line: "in zion to flourish again." Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Mourning; Zionism; Judaism; Bereavement THE SLAUGHTER OF THE JEWS, by ALFRED JAMES WATERHOUSE Poem Text First Line: Fools who kill for the lust of blood, fiends of the / slaughter pen Last Line: All that the world holds dearest is slaughtered in him—the jew. Subject(s): Cruelty; Jews; Oppression; Judaism THE SLEEP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the thoughts of god that are / borne inward unto souls afar Last Line: "he giveth his beloved sleep." Variant Title(s): He Giveth His Beloved Sleep;to Sleep Subject(s): Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE SONG OF DAVID, by CHRISTOPHER SHARP Poem Text First Line: He sang of god, the mighty source Last Line: "replied, ""o lord thou art." Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE SONG OF MIRIAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Ye daughters and soldiers of israel look back Last Line: Omnipotent-glorious-eternal-alone Variant Title(s): Sacred Melody Subject(s): Disasters;god;jews;miriam (bible);women In The Bible; Judaism THE SONG OF THE SEXTON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At dawn going from house to house & Last Line: Get up work for god Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism;worship; Judaism THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands Last Line: (exeunt.) Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips 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 SPIRIT OF THE SABBATH, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: We greet her in her everlasting youth. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Peace; Dead, The; Judaism THE STAMP OF CIVILIZATION, by MAX SIMON NORDAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Japan hath western culture? So you say. O vain Last Line: As for japan? Why e'en anti-semitism in her land is quite unknown. Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Japan; Jews; Japanese; Judaism THE STAR OF DISCONTENT, by X Poem Text First Line: O thou, sweet friend, would I might soothe thy / fear! Last Line: One ray of hope—the star of disconent. Subject(s): Hope; Jews; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Optimism; Judaism THE TABERNACLE, by ROSE EMMA COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Let us build to the lord of the earth in each place Last Line: And vanish'd ere dawn spread her roseate light! Subject(s): Jews; Praise; Judaism THE TALMUD, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ancient pages of the talmud Last Line: All that we shall see no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Jews; Memory; Judaism THE TEARS OF A GRATEFUL PEOPLE, by HYMAN HURWITZ Poem Text First Line: Oppressed, confused, with grief and pain Last Line: Lord, hear us! We entreat! Subject(s): George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Jews; Judaism THE TEMPLE, by DAVID LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go forth, o people Last Line: With truth and peace. Subject(s): God; Jews; Temples; Judaism; Mosques THE TEN WORDS OF CREATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the beginning god created Last Line: "yhvh, yhvh, a god merciful and gracious, the existent, yhvh" Subject(s): Creation;jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE TENT OF ABRAHAM, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of an eastern day Last Line: And abraham stood rebuked before his god. Subject(s): Abraham; Bible; God; Jews; Judaism THE THIEF'S PLAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Open up open up Last Line: Falls down dead Subject(s): Holidays;jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THE TITANIC, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, you must go -- ask not to stay Last Line: Of life's great secret on each other's heart! Subject(s): Devotion; Disasters; Jews; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Straus, Isidor (1845-1912); Straus, Rosalie Ida (blun) (1849-1912); Titanic (ship); Judaism THE TOMBS OF THE FATHERS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In babylon they sat and wept Last Line: "how doth she now sit desolate!" Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Babylon; Exiles; Jews; Judaism THE TONGUE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the boneless tongue, so small and weak" Last Line: "the sacred writer crowns the whole, / 'who keeps his tongue doth keep his soul!'" Subject(s): Hebrew Language;jews;tongues; Judaism THE TONGUE, by JOHN DAVID NUSSBAUM Poem Text First Line: Said rabbi simon to his son Last Line: "both life and death are in the tongue!" Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Simon (143-135 B.c.); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE TORAH OF THE VOID, by NACHMAN OF BRATZLAV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, / for mercy's sake / created the world Alternate Author Name(s): Nachman Of Breslo Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Nothingness; Judaism; Nihilism; Voids THE TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, FAIRE QUEENE OF JEWRY: CHORAL SONG, by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those mindes that wholy dote upon delight Last Line: That care for nothing being in their power. Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess Subject(s): Jews; Self-gratification; Judaism THE TURN OF THE YEARS, by H. B. FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: How may we know you, year of all? Last Line: But you, the past. Subject(s): Jews; Memory; Past; Judaism THE TURNING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unknown faces in the street Subject(s): Jews; Self; Judaism THE TWIN STARS, by JOEL BLAU Poem Text First Line: Up above me star and star Last Line: Who'll the blessing o'er them say? Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Sabbath; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday THE TWIN STARS, by JOEL BLAU Poem Text First Line: Two stars are shining in the skies Last Line: Who will pronounce the blessing? Subject(s): God; Heaven; Jews; Sabbath; Paradise; Judaism; Sunday THE TWO FRIENDS; A RABBINICAL TALE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good rabbi nathan had rejoiced to spend Last Line: "in wisdom, strength, and goodness, like to thee!" Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE TWO RABBIS, by MRS. LEVITUS Poem Text First Line: There stood upon moriah's mount Last Line: "while thine is dewed with bitter tears." Subject(s): Clergy; Jerusalem; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE TWO RABBIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi nathan two score years and ten Last Line: "save thou a soul, and it shall save thy own!" Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religion; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Theology THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the hand of god man was created Last Line: "come, child of mine, and slumber in my bosom." Subject(s): Jews; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Judaism; Virgin Mary THE VISION OF HIS PEOPLE, by LEON GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ere yet the morn in glory rose Last Line: I saw my people—horrid sight! Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Nightmares; Judaism THE VISION OF HUNA, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had set upon jerusalem Last Line: As if he trod the new jerusalem. Subject(s): Clergy; Jerusalem; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE VOICE OF GOD, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: I heard his voice in song of wren Last Line: The mighty voice of god. Subject(s): God; Jews; 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 THE WANDERING JEW, by DAVID LEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seek not what I am to know Last Line: For pity as for scorn. Subject(s): Jews; Wandering Jew; Judaism THE WHITE AND SCARLET THREAD; THE MESSAGE OF ATONEMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "turn, o israel, turn and live" Last Line: "sinner, pray and god will hearken" Subject(s): Jews;prayer;sin; Judaism THE WIFE'S TREASURE, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sidon lived a husband with his wife Last Line: "now thou art mine, and I will treasure thee!" Subject(s): Jews; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Judaism; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Male-female Relations THE WILD GAZELLE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild gazelle on judah's hills Last Line: And mockery sits on salem's throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Jews; Judaism THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE SHEKINAH FROM HER HOME IN THE TEMPLE, by YEHUDA BEN IDI Poem Text First Line: From the ark cover she moved onto the cherub Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism – Judaism; Shekinah; Wandering & Wanderers; Judaism THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence THE WRITTEN WORD, by ROBERT GRANT (1785-1838) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starry firmament on high Last Line: When heaven and earth have passed away. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology THE YELLOW BADGE, by RUTH SCHECHTER ALEXANDER Poem Text First Line: Hundreds of years agone, my brothers Last Line: Of the people god called his crown. Subject(s): History; Jews; Tradition; Historians; Judaism THE YOUNG MOSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The world was at his feet Last Line: "to lead them, if the might, from bondage" Subject(s): Bible;egypt;god;jews;moses; Judaism THE YOUNG RABBI, by E. C. L. BROWNE Poem Text First Line: Thou lookest backward reverently. 'tis well! Last Line: Stand forth with him and sing to-day's mismor! Subject(s): Clergy; Faith; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Belief; Creed; Judaism THEE, MY BELOVED, by ABRAHAM BEN HALFON Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THEODORE HERZL, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such men are rare-they tow'r above mankind Last Line: A dream like thy god unto moses sent. Subject(s): Herzl, Theodore (1860-1904); Jews; Zionism; Judaism THEODORE HERZL, by HARRY MYERS Poem Text First Line: Peace! No tear for him who sleepeth near Last Line: Israel lives anew! Subject(s): Herzl, Theodore (1860-1904); Jerusalem; Jews; Peace; 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 THERAPIST, by RUTH ROSTON Poem Source First Line: Marcia fogelson is dancing Last Line: Spinning light into the whiteness %of the ward Subject(s): Jews - Women THERE IS A LAST, SOLITARY COACH, by DAVID VOGEL Poem Source First Line: There is at last, solitary coach about to leave Last Line: For it won't wait Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THERE IS ONE SYNAGOGUE EXTANT IN KIEV, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: They do not talk of loss at babi yar Last Line: So long ago their queen of sabbath fled, %all that's left is kaddish for the dead Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Kiev, Ukraine; Synagogues THERE ONCE WAS A HOUSE, by DORA TEITELBOIM Poem Source First Line: There once was a house on the butchers' street Last Line: His fiddle waits for someone to play Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THERE WAS EARTH INSIDE THEM, AND THEY DUG, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They dug and they dug, so their day Last Line: And on our fingers the rink awakes Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THERE WERE THOSE WHO ESCAPED TO THE FORESTS, by SUSAN DAMBROFF Poem Source Last Line: There were those %who fed each other Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THEY ARE ALL WE ARE ALL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over puget sound %as it always was Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Old Age; Palestine THEY ARE BUT GIANTS WHILE WE KNEEL, by GERALD MASSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good people! Put no faith in kings, nor in your princes trust Last Line: They were but giants while we kneel: one leap, and up go we Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera Variant Title(s): Kings Are But Giants Because We Knee Subject(s): Jews; Worship THEY DID NOT BUILD WINGS FOR THEM, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Here the world was a passionate place and she %would visit it at night baring her breasts %to the mo Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY HAVE BEEN MULTITUDES, YEA MULTITUDES, O GOD, by MANI LEIB BRAHINSKY Poem Source Last Line: Two or three trees left standing amid the fallen timber Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THEY SAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY USED TO LOVE ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women THEY'VE ROLLED THE PARCHMENT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As an old sweater %pulled over my head Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Rosh Hashanah THIEF, by ABRAHAM LINIK Poem Source First Line: In the foggy distance Last Line: Bracelets of my youth %and my %dreams Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THINK ON GOD, by R. E. S. Poem Text First Line: Forget thee, oh my god! And can this be? Last Line: Your maker is your life, your soul's delight. Subject(s): God; Jews; Nature - Religious Aspects; Religion; Judaism; Theology THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF JERUSALEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a black thread Last Line: And keep filling %their plates with more Subject(s): Jews - Women THIRD GENERATION, by KATHERINE JANOWITZ Poem Source First Line: And no blight on her Last Line: I gave birth to this crimson flower %from my secret blood Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIRD HAND, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: The chopped - off hand that I discovered once upon a time Last Line: By the tomatoes in september nineteen forty - one Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIRD-REICH BIRDS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: The birds keep an uneasy peace with people Last Line: My whole body convulses with cold fear; %they have a horrible reputation for breaking treaties Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIRST, by ZIAME TALESSIN Poem Source First Line: Sand, harsh as salt, on the palate Last Line: Was clogged to the brim with our slain Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THIRTY YEARS SINCE I WANTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Am I looking in this tunnel %for my dreams Subject(s): Arabs; Dreams; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine THIS IS NOT THE ROAD, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And where is the road? %where is the city? Last Line: Who still deliver me %from the flames Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THISTLEDOWN GATHERER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Look at the immense and restless red sea of the wide thistle health! Last Line: Workdays will seem like distant vineyards glittering in the sun Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews THOMAS, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: When brother george and sister maggie Last Line: Until his foolishness in knocked out of his head Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky THOROUGH EARTH, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: He moves ahead by fits Last Line: On an unapprehended enemy, %renews her search for the unexterminated Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THOUGHTS FROM AFAR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: While I raised my steaming cup Last Line: And spare my friend %his life %his mind Subject(s): Jews; Medicine THOUGHTS UNDER THE GIANT SEQUOIA, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: A shrub of tourists Last Line: For the guns; and greenwalds resting their tanks %in a grove of tamarisks near sharm el sheik Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THRASH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Fifteen minutes of the backstreet downbeat syncopated terrorism coming off Last Line: Through the air like a gun Subject(s): Jews - United States THREE, by MARTIN STEINGESSER Poem Source First Line: For miroslav kosek, hanus lowy & one bachner Last Line: Pulses %bright yellow, a burr %--your star in the throat of death Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THREE, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: What beautiful temples of human love are the public inns of the Last Line: Heaven because they took pity on our frailty? Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews THREE CHILDREN, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: Three children, three wretched %worms, are aslumber Last Line: And the stars with their golden glitter Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews THREE LOVE POEMS: 1, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd sell my soul for that fawn Subject(s): Jews; Love; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THREE LOVE POEMS: 2, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the blood of the grape Subject(s): Jews; Love; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism THREE LOVE POEMS: 3, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That's it -- I love that fawn Subject(s): Jews; Love; Mysticism - Judaism; 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 TITANIC, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was %two years old - Last Line: On a beautiful bright day, %like the titanic Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO A LITTLE BOY, by MOISHE SHIMMEL Poem Source First Line: Don't cry, little boy, wipe your tears, things will yet be good Last Line: The hand that seized your father and mother and slaughtered them Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO AMERICA, by H. LEYVIK Poem Source First Line: For forty-one years I have lived in your borders, america Last Line: Embracing the glare of intimacy and farewell, america Subject(s): Jews - United States; United States TO AN ORPHAN, by SARA BARKAN Poem Source First Line: I hear your lament from across the wide sea Last Line: This day - no, this hour! I must act for your sake Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO BE A JEW IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother and listener she is, but she does not listen Last Line: Daring to live for the impossible Subject(s): Jews; Twentieth Century TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA), by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, that the golden lyre divine Last Line: Still unredeemed? Subject(s): Compassion; Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Mothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism TO DAMASCUS, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sinister sun of the syrians beat Last Line: Is the road to damascus. Subject(s): Damascus, Syria; Jews; Judaism TO DAVID, by MIRIAM SUHLER Poem Text First Line: O israel's god-anointed warrior king Last Line: On thine more precious gift of psaltery. Subject(s): Bible; Goliath; Jews; Judaism TO DREYFUS VINDICATED, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier of justice, - fighting with her sword Last Line: And he hath promised that he will repay. Subject(s): Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935); Jews; Judaism TO EMMA LAZARUS - 1905, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear bard and prophet, that thy rest Last Line: Richard watson gilder. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism TO FORGIVE IS DIVINE, by M. L. R. BRESLAR Poem Text First Line: Father of mercies, and all human love Last Line: M. L. R. Breslar. Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Jews; Clemency; Judaism TO GISI FLEISCHMANN, by JOAN CAMPION Poem Source First Line: Heroine of the holocaust Last Line: Wherever there is love, there you will live Subject(s): Jews TO GOD, by GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, the one supreme o'er all! Last Line: Beyond the range of thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Gregory Of Nazianzen; Nanzianzen, Gregory; Gregory The Theologian Subject(s): God; Jews; Religion; Judaism; Theology TO HEINRICH HEINE, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake to lyric rapture once again Last Line: The fatherland swift healing on its wing. Subject(s): Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Jews; Poetry & Poets; Judaism TO JOSEPH JOACHIM, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Belov'd of all to whom that muse is dear Last Line: And every ear that heard thee stopt with dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Jews; Joachim, Joseph (1831-1907); Music & Musicians; Judaism TO JUDAH HA-LEVI, by M. L. R. BRESLAR Poem Text First Line: Impassioned hours, when hebrew was the key Last Line: And froth it full of tears for spain's decline. Subject(s): Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141); Judaism; Yehuda Ben Shemuel Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan TO MAKE SACRED, by REEVE ROBERT BRENNER Poem Source First Line: That the lampshade at yad vashem Last Line: Discomfit jerusalem's profaners %and soften the sacrilege Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO MARY AND TSELIA, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: I love the earth on which I tread Last Line: Made radiant by its glow, made happy by its bounty Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 19. THE LOWLY JEW, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: So many of the noblest men I've known Last Line: Who gave his life for all, was of this race. Subject(s): Jews; Judaism TO MY GRANDMOTHER, 187-1970, by CAROL ASCHER Poem Source First Line: Suddenly you're gone and I see years ago Last Line: Dead, now dead %and a time is over Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women TO MY LYRE, by JOSEPH MASSEL Poem Text First Line: Wonderful is my love Last Line: And the sweets of the world to be. Subject(s): Harps; Jews; Love; Musical Instruments; Lyres; Judaism TO MY MOTHER, by HANNAH SENESH Poem Source First Line: From where have you learned to wipe the Last Line: From where have you learned strength? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mothers And Daughters; Women TO MY MOTHER WHO ENDURED, by LILIANE RICHMAN Poem Source First Line: This is the tale Last Line: So that we never forget. %for this our tears %are made of salt Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO PHILIP LEVINE, ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Impenitent, we meet again Last Line: Nothing to atone for but the cold %and blurred perspectives of the dead Variant Title(s): To A Friend On The Day Of Atonemen Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Levine, Philip; Yom Kippur TO RUSSIA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who tamed your lawless tartar blood? Last Line: Your jew! Your jew! Your hated jew! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Jews; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians TO SIMON WOLF, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother, brave and battle-scarred and bold Last Line: A portion of your spirit for our need. Subject(s): Jews; Wolf, Simon (1836-1923); Judaism TO SIMON WOLF ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You need no meed of praise in song or prose Last Line: The enemies that trouble israel. Subject(s): Jews; Wolf, Simon (1836-1923); Judaism TO THE CZAR-A PROPHECY, by ROSALIE IDA BLUN STRAUS Poem Text First Line: How canst thou face thy maker, how canst thou Last Line: When law and order shall prevail, and peace supreme shall reign! Alternate Author Name(s): Straus, Mrs. Isidor Subject(s): Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Judaism TO THE END, by JEFFREY A. Z. ZABLE Poem Source First Line: I remember the guns Last Line: Devoured by wind %leaves jabbed into the earth: %this the beginning! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE GLORY OF JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful height! O joy! The whole world's Last Line: Than honey—the earth of thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism TO THE HEBREWS, by BEULAH SWEETSER Poem Text First Line: As truth, within a crystal globe is seen Last Line: Salute! To you whose works so greatly bless! Subject(s): Jews; Judaism TO THE LEFT, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: You knew %as soon Last Line: Was life %mother Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE MEMORY OF GRACE AGUILAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "and thou art gone, grace aguilar" Last Line: Who sing that 'god is love' Subject(s): Authors & Authorship;jews;memory; Judaism TO THE ONLOOKERS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When our backs are turned Last Line: Who could have been changed %into light Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE SKIES OF ISRAEL, by MEYER CHARATZ Poem Source First Line: Give me, o skies, a bit of space Last Line: Flame where the clouds of israel gather Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THE THIN VEIN IN MY HEAD, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: I'm entrusting myself completely to the thin vein in my head Last Line: A wind. Grass. The night's concluding star Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TO THEODORE HERZL, by GUSTAV GOTTHEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who called thee to such holy high estate? Last Line: To struggle for the newly dawning life. Subject(s): Herzl, Theodore (1860-1904); Jews; Zionism; Judaism TO WALTER LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD ON HIS BAR-MITZVAH, by LOUIS BARNETT ABRAHAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is the heritage of ancient birth Last Line: Thy heart shall know a peace no pain can mar. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Bar & Bat Mitzvahs; Jews; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism 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 TOILET, by LILY BRETT Poem Source First Line: Surprisingly %few Last Line: Own %eruption Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TOLDOT YESHU, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Jews TOMATOES, by TERESA MOSZKOWICZ-SYROP Poem Source First Line: Is it possible %do they still exist? Last Line: Wree the juicy, red tomatoes %shining in the sun Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TONIGHT, by JULIUS BALBIN Poem Source First Line: Tonight %the silence of my room Last Line: Shrieking %from the womb %of despair %tonight Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TOURIST, by JANE SCHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: Hard to say why some of us have come this far Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TOURIST AND CICERONE, by LUDWIG AUGUST FRANKL Poem Text First Line: Good sir, thou didst me order Last Line: "jehovah is our god." Subject(s): God; Jews; Pain; Titus, Emperor Of Rome (39-81 A.d.); Judaism; Suffering; Misery TOWARD A BETTER TOMORROW, by KASRIEL BROIDA Poem Source First Line: In gray, hard times, when winds are fierce Last Line: Is what we believe in; %we know for a fact: it will be! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRACKS VANISHING INTO SUNLIGHT, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: After rain %this world is not Last Line: Untransmuted. Held down under %ash drifts-history's weather Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRADITION OF THE KADDISH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: The origins of the kaddish are mysterious: angels are said to Last Line: They are an abiding blessing Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRAGEDIE OF MARIAM, FAIRE QUEENE OF JEWRY, SELS., by ELIZABETH (TANFIELD) CARY Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Falkland, Viscountess Subject(s): Jealousy; Jews; Mariamne The Hasmonaean (57-29 B.c.) TRAIN PASSAGE, by KAREN PROPP Poem Source First Line: Not the train my grandfather escaped Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRAINS, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Signed by franz paul stangl, commandant Last Line: Woemn's hair for mattresses and dolls' heads. %treblinka. The trains from treblinka Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRANSLATION OF THE PATRIARCH, by LUCY A. RANDALL Poem Text First Line: No tombstone saw they there Last Line: Reveals how enoch went home to him. Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism TRANSLATION: 1. OUTLET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And what is the next move Last Line: Looking for the right %word Variant Title(s): Outle Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe Variant Title(s): Win Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind TRANSLATION: 3. FIGURE OUT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have to be able to Last Line: You don't invent someone %who already is Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting; Voices TRANSLATION: 4. LIKELY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We never hear them Last Line: How noiseless the noise of the likely Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Silence TRANSLATION: 5. PUT ASIDE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bitterness %the swamp of it Last Line: Benevolent whispers %angels' wings Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRANSLATION: 6. NIBBLING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What would you do with an avocado %in your bed Last Line: Butter melting on a warm roll Subject(s): Arabs; Food And Eating; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRANSLATION: 7. HUMAN VESSEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cape of no-hope Last Line: Holding each other %when the wave breaks Variant Title(s): Human Vesse Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Togetherness TRAUB, IN MY GRANDMA'S WORDS, by JUDITH W. STEINBERGH Poem Source First Line: A small village, %a few huts Last Line: Opens like a child's mouth %to the russian sky Subject(s): Grandparents; Jews; Jews - Women TREBLINKA, by HENRY F. BEECHHOLD Poem Source First Line: Here are the ruins Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by MARTIN EDMUNDS Poem Source First Line: Still, when the wind is right Last Line: Could you be the heilige jungfrau %of belsen and birkenau? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: That winter night they were burning corpses Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, 1944, by T. W. PERKINS Poem Source First Line: More of my people died today Last Line: Hear, oh israel, the lord our god, %the lord is one' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not everyone can see the tree, its summer cloud of green Last Line: Book to light, you will see the watermarks of their faces Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Lidice, Czechoslovakia; Life; Trees TREE OF LIFE, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: In the past, I was a thin sapling Last Line: Into a tree of renewed life Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREE SPIRIT EVENTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One mounts to one side Last Line: Ten are fixed in one Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism TRIAGE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The frugal traveler- %I survey my belongings splayed out Last Line: I return the book to its special corner Subject(s): Jews; Medicine TRILOGY, by CECILE HAMERMESH Poem Source First Line: My grandmother is an ivory chord Last Line: I would rock them %beyond %the storkes of movement Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TRIM, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Antonio twirls a sheet around my neck Last Line: Yes,' I nod, 'yes, yes, yes' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine TROUBLE WITH ANGER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Because I couldn't %hate %them Subject(s): Anger; Arabs; Emotions; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRUE JEWISH FAITH, by ISIDOR BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does true jewish faith imply? Last Line: And by his grace, it thus shall be! Subject(s): Faith; Jews; Belief; Creed; Judaism TRUST, by M. M. Poem Text First Line: Though bare of bloom the broad-leafed fig Last Line: And doth me to high place raise. Subject(s): God; Jews; Praise; Judaism TRUSTFULNESS, by JOSEPH LEONARD LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, god, the only god Last Line: We trust in thee. Subject(s): God; Jews; Judaism TSENA TSENA (SECOND GENERATION), by MARILYN MOHR Poem Source First Line: There you are dancing with your child Last Line: This child, this dance, this song %sweeping back the darkness, %tsena Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TU B'SHEVAT, by ANNETTE BIALIK HARCHIK Poem Source First Line: Midwinter yet it has started Last Line: Shows buds beginning %blossoms Subject(s): Jews - Women TURKEY TRUCK, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Caught behind a turkey truck Last Line: Back to dachau this gray day Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 TWILIGHT, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Only when he sits on his front stoop Last Line: Filling his nostrils with menstrual stench %from a womb-tombat earth's dead center Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TWILIGHT ZONE, by MINDY RINKEWICH Poem Source First Line: Of course the restaurant was open Last Line: They closed down the store %and the rest of the town Subject(s): Jews - Women TWO STONES, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stream close by our house %began Last Line: The eyes of my brother - %free now of fear and hope Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TWO YOUNG WOMEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women U. S. ARMY HOLDS DANCE FOR CAMP SURVIVORS. GERMANY, 1945, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: We recognize each other, neighbors before the war Last Line: Cracked open behind us, our cellars glow with out youth Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ULTIMA THULE: THE CHAMBER OVER THE GATE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it so far from thee Last Line: "o absalom, my son!" Subject(s): Jews; Judaism ULTIMATE SACRIFICES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Yesterday was ash wednesday Last Line: Remember those of the shoah, who rose for no one Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS, TEREZIN, by REVA SHARON Poem Source First Line: It was here jhirka %in that black yesterday Last Line: ... But jhirka %who will ask your questions Subject(s): Death - Children; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UNCLE, by BARRY SEILER Poem Source First Line: I'm older than you will ever be Last Line: Mocking us in their austere cages Subject(s): Aging; Jews; Uncles UNDER THE PATCH OF YELLOW, by LEIVICK HALPERN Poem Source First Line: Under the patch of yellow %shut your eyelids tight Last Line: As is our yellow patching. %hush now, sleep is best Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UNDRESSING AUNT FRIEDA, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Undressing aunt frieda, I think of how Last Line: I lift her gently, hoping she'll sleep %the hour drive home Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations UNFINISHED POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We live on a holy mountain Last Line: Twice a week to increase %our bone density Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets UNGARETTI'S UMBRELLA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Claude says, 'this is Last Line: We still need a shelter %over our heads Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ungaretti, Giuspeppe (1888-1970) UNITY, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: In the meantime, lithuania began to merge with america Last Line: On which were written numbers and names Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky UNSTOPPABLE FURY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And options %still %open Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Traffic VALEDICTION FORBIDDING DESPAIR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This summer is treblinka Last Line: And the temporary wish %to rest Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VALEDICTION FORBIDDING DESPAIR, CRACOW GHETTO, 1943, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This summer is treblinka Last Line: Toward memory's ultimate destination, %resurrection Subject(s): Cracow, Poland; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VARIATIONS ON JONAH: 3, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: When they threw me over Last Line: Nothing to do-I let every muscle go slack Subject(s): Jews - United States VASHTI, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In all great shushan's palaces was there Last Line: "he will but bless me when he doth repent!" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Jews; Love; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Judaism VENETIAN INTERIOR, 1889, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand to one side. No, over here with me: Last Line: But only that we yield. And we yield Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Browning, Pen (1849-1912); Paintings & Painters; Jews; Judaism VICTIM OF THE LIBERATION, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This gray, rainy a.M. Last Line: Without having it descend as zyklon b vapors Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VIENNA MARCH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Boys in uniform call from a bridge above Last Line: Remember how their knees were thin as wrists? Subject(s): Jews - United States VIEW FROM THE GHETTO, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: Here I stand at the edge of the field Last Line: All the dark ones are gone. %they have no one Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VIEWS OF LA LEGGENDA DELLA VERA CROCE, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: How will I ever get this in a poem Last Line: What's that splinter in his upturned eye Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VILLANELLE FROM A SENTENCE IN A POET'S BRIEF BIOGRAPHY, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: In' 42 he was conscripted to work on trains Last Line: In' 42. In czechoslovakia. Trains Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VILNA 1938, by SHELLEY EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: A woman leans in Last Line: Over the threshold, %where would the darkness %lead? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VINTAGE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: They said that was a special year Last Line: Before we pry the aging corks? Subject(s): Jews; Medicine VISION EVENT, by NACHMAN OF BRATZLAV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine that you could constantly recall all that we know about the future Alternate Author Name(s): Nachman Of Breslo Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism VISION OF BELSHAZZAR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king was on his throne, Last Line: The persian on his throne!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Belshazzar; Jews; Judaism VISION OF JERUSALEM, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I saw thee, oh my fatherland, my beautiful, my own! Last Line: Our god will bring thy children back, ne'er, ne'er again to roam! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews VISION OF RABBI ABRAHAM, SELS., by NATHAN OF GAZA Poem Source First Line: & I abraham has shut myself in for 40 years had grieved over the power of Subject(s): Cabbala; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism VISION OF RABBI NATHAN, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The creeping incense misted all the air Subject(s): Jews VISIT. AUSCHWITZ, 1971, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: Dr. Bronowski stands in the marshes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VIVIAN, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The first pioneers who Last Line: Went to the old, good-natured pastor %and married Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky VOICE FROM THE HEART, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: From the heart of a voice commands : believe Last Line: Death pardons every error, %but slavery it never forgives Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Hearts of christians all should glow Last Line: As your fellows all mankind Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews VOICES, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Voices mute for ever, or since yesterday, or just stilled Last Line: You'll have to run the last lap by yourself Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VOICES, by RONALD WILLIAM PIES Poem Source First Line: One hundred men, %they marches us from birkenau Last Line: If there is a god, %if there is, %he should be strangled %slowly.' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews VOW, by ITZIK FEFFER Poem Source First Line: I swear by the horrified stars, by the sun and its rays Last Line: The ash of my body refused by the planet. Amen! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WAITING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the fervor Last Line: But I can't tell you how any of them sing. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Waiting; Dead, The; Judaism WAKING IN BED IN THE SHRILL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Before dawn now %shivering Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices WALL, by LUDVIK ASKENAZY Poem Source First Line: In a place of worship I know, they made a strange music Last Line: I must be here,' she said, 'somewhere %between john and jo seph' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WANDERING, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little man of sorrows, whither would you wander? Last Line: "I am going to the country where my fathers ruled of old." Subject(s): Cities; Grief; Homecoming; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism WANDERSONG, by BENJAMIN KATZ Poem Source First Line: Wander, cradle, up and wander! %in the west the sun goes under Last Line: Wander, cradle, wake and run! %nazi - demons drive us on Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WANTON WEEDS, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Now, farewell!' said my friend one summer evening when we had Last Line: Norway's rightful symbols: we are love and liberty' Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews WAR HAS BEEN GIVEN A BAD NAME, by BERTOLT BRECHT Poem Source First Line: I am told that the best people have begun saying Last Line: Discredited for some time to come Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; War WAR LULLABY, by BRACHE KOPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, my child, my only child, %rest, my one delight! Last Line: Will burst in brightness at your door Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WARSAW, by SHMERKE KATCHERGINSKY Poem Source First Line: The night does not pass and the day does not dawn Last Line: Avenge them! Avenge them! Avenge them!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WARSAW CAROUSEL, by CECILE LOW Poem Source First Line: Just outside the ghetto wall Last Line: Inside the wall, our children die %outside the music plays Subject(s): Jews - Women WARSAW GHETTO, by HAROLD BLACK Poem Source First Line: Me'ayin yavoh ezri? %night has fallen Last Line: Of half a million jews Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WATCHING 'SHOAH' IN A HOTEL ROOM IN AMERICA, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights as soft as fur on a foal Last Line: We have nowhere to go Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism WATCHING 'SHOAH' IN A HOTEL ROOM IN AMERICA, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are nights as soft as fur on a foal Last Line: We have nowhere to go Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WATCHMAN! WHAT OF THE NIGHT?, by JAMES MEW Poem Text First Line: The burden of dumah. Silence. What of the / night? Last Line: With longing for that messianic morn. Subject(s): Jews; Night; Peace; Sleep; Judaism; Bedtime WATER SONG, by SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast's begun Last Line: Like streams of water, streams of water. Alternate Author Name(s): Ibn Gabirol; Solomon Ben Yehuda Ibn Gabirol Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Thirst; Water; Wine; Judaism WATER-POEM: A PRAYER & INVOCATION TO THE PRINCE OF RAIN, by ELEAZAR HA-KALLIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Af-bri / sign Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Water; Judaism WAVING HER FAREWELL. TRAIN STATION, VIENNA XV, 1939, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: It is not a trip to the prater or augarten to play Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE ALL STOOD TOGETHER, by MERLE FELD Poem Source First Line: My brother and I were at sinai Last Line: If we remember it together %we could recreate holy time %sparks flying Subject(s): Jews - Women WE ARE, by ELAINE STARKMAN Poem Source First Line: We are not tintypes of %great-grandmothers Last Line: Jewish women %not yet ourselves Subject(s): Jews - Women WE ARE THE ECHOES, by CAROL ADLER Poem Source First Line: Find another place for them Last Line: Take away your echoes %we say %talking to you as if you were listening Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE GO ON LIVING, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We go on living on the earth Last Line: We speak - to little, gray birds Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE NEVER GOT TO SAY GOODBYE, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: An infinite time ago Last Line: And I never got to say goodbye Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE POLISH JEWS: 1, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: And at once I hear a question - from where that we? Last Line: Because they are of my nation. After my death, %may the earth of poland take me! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE POLISH JEWS: 2, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: But I hear voices saying, fine, but if a pole, then why Last Line: With the jews. Take me in, my brothers! It is to this %community, to this church, that I wish to bel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE POLISH JEWS: 3, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: In warsaw and every other polish city, there will Last Line: Will we carry the mark of the polish jew - only then, %in pride and mourning, all other ranks dimini Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Poland WE POLISH JEWS: 4, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: We who-by miracle or by accident-remain alive Last Line: To the world: polish jews! The biggest sensation! Nervous %people, please leave the hall! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE POLISH JEWS: 5, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: I call your name o god from a scatter of graves Last Line: Our fuhrer and savior, who will dictate our rights %and desires! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WE WEEK YOU, ONE AND ONLY GOD, by LUBA KRUGMAN GURDUS Poem Source First Line: In doleful tunes of autumn winds Last Line: It's you we seek, one and only god Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WEATHERMAN TELLS US, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To know where %they're going Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Weather WEEKDAY SERMON, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: The passionate service was in progress Last Line: Oh, mary don't ya weep! Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky WEEKEND IN PALM SPRINGS, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: The pool light shimmers Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, weep for him, the man of god Last Line: Weep, children of israel, weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise; Judaism; Bereavement WEEPING AND SINGING, by ISRAEL ZEITLIN Poem Source First Line: From a land of milk and honey Subject(s): Jews WELCOME THE GUEST AND HER FAMILY!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WELTANSCHAUUNG, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: The sieg! Heil! Victory! Salvation! Last Line: Were spread like a gray smudge %over the frozen roads Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WESTERBORK TODAY, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Surrounded by empty nowhere Last Line: Only memories live here now Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Ears afire, I knock at kent house door Last Line: I'm at the bus stop; but around me floats %a choral fire from every synagogue %of brno, pilsen, brat Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT HAPPENS, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: It has happened Last Line: Nd goes on happening and will happen again Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT IS NOT HERE, by SHAYE BUDIN Poem Source First Line: On sea and on ocean, on night Last Line: Best of health, and let us hear from you! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT LUCK, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: What luck I can pick Last Line: I thought man %has no heart Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT RABBI JEHOSHA SAID, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbi jehosha used to say Last Line: Said all the host of heaven could say. Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Paradise; Judaism WHAT SWIMS THERE ON THE HUDSON, by RAJZEL ZYCHLINSKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What swims there on the hudson %in the glare of red? Last Line: Who once more, in my memory, %are going under Alternate Author Name(s): Zychlinska, Rayzel Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHAT WANTS TO CONTINUE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sometimes the door remains bolted Subject(s): Arabs; Grief; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine WHEEL, by JULIE N. HEIFETZ Poem Source First Line: I began to think Last Line: As long as you live, %anything can happen Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHEN ALL THAT'S WARM, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: When all that's warm and moist is just debris Last Line: Bodies formolated, wings impaled? Subject(s): Jews; Medicine WHEN I READ OF THE ROSE OF DACHAU, by JAMES ANDREW EMANUEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Auschwitz! %buchenwald! %smart makers of the dead Last Line: Or is it I %who tremble? Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHEN I WAS TEN, by DORA WEEKS Poem Source Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHEN MEMORIES COME, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: When memories grow old Last Line: Without whom I would not be me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHEN ON YOUR WAY, MESSENGER, by UNKNOWN+171 Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women WHEN THE GROOM APPEARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sing glorified and adorned songs Subject(s): Jews - Women WHEN YOU SPEAK, by RAFI AARON Poem Source First Line: When you speak Last Line: Never flew Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Landscape WHERE I SAT, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: I sat between grandmother Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 WHILE BOUNCING THE SHEMA BACK AND FORTH IN SHUL, by TALIA N. BLOCH Poem Source First Line: We were there, avinu Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHILE CARRYING LOADS OF TIMBER, by JACOB (JACK) GORDON Poem Source First Line: While carrying loads of timber Last Line: With footstep weary, numb Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHISPERED, by JIRI ORTEN Poem Source First Line: Blood only blood is able to beat to strike the right note Last Line: Here's my cover which you've almost managed to close %only it stays slightly askew Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHITE CANDLES, by BONNILEE Poem Source First Line: I used to watch her pacing Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHO AM I?, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: I am gabie or gabi Last Line: Together they say: me Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHO ARE THE WISE?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They who have governed with a self control Last Line: Those only can be numbered with the wise Subject(s): Clergy;jews;wisdom; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism WHO GIVES IN LOVE, by ISIDOR WISE Poem Text First Line: Naught is there in life worth living Last Line: Shall a thousand pleasures prove. Subject(s): Hearts; Jews; Love; Judaism WHO SEPARATED ME?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women 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 WHO?' OF IBN ARIBUR OF CORDOBA, by JOSEPH IBN ABITUR Poem Source First Line: Who %anchored the hight skies Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism WHY DIDN'T MY FATHER DIE IN THE FIRE?, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I wish my dad had died at auschwitz Last Line: Of my gassed and cremated heritage Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHY I UNDERSTAND WORLD LITERATURE, by JUDITH SHULAMITH LANGER CAPLAN Poem Source First Line: Nipple-length %tresses %auburn-dyed Last Line: He-she does spin Subject(s): Jews - Women WHY I WRITE ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST, by GARY PACERNICK Poem Source First Line: When I was a boy I lived among people Last Line: I tasted the bitter herbs of their memories; %I heard their silent screams Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WHY WAS IT SO BRIGHT?, by LEIB APESKIN Poem Source First Line: Why, yesterday, was it so bright overhead? Last Line: The sun will burst forth as it should! Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WIDOW, by FLORENCE B. FREEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Death is not a striding reaper Last Line: Now let my day begin! Subject(s): Jews - Women WILLIAM RUFUS AND THE JEW, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May it please my lord the king, -- there's a jew at the door Last Line: "quoth he, ""I think I'll keep the thirty for the payment of my pains." Subject(s): Jews; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100); Judaism WIND -- TWO TREES -- MEN AND WOMEN, by HARRIS LENOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Ruah elohim wind of god Last Line: Game of harehound Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism WIND WEEPS, by ADELA FRIEDMAN Poem Source First Line: Forgive me, dear child, %that I won't lull you Last Line: Don't say you're on the road to death!' Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WINE SONG, by JUDAH AL-HARIZI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, beneath this spreading tree Last Line: Oceans of wine that e'er grows old. Alternate Author Name(s): Yehuda Alharizi; Judah Ben Solomon Harizi Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Jews; Thirst; Wine; Judaism WINTER, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: That year saw a winter Last Line: From blue strips between white clouds Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky WISDOM, by ISIDORE MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God got me ere his works began Last Line: That hate me ever as my foes Subject(s): Jews; Wisdom; Judaism WITHOUT JEWS, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without jews there is no jewish god Last Line: Jewish god! %you are almost gone Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WITHOUT JEWS, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without jews, no jewish god Last Line: Soon, jewish god, %your eclipse Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WITHOUT JEWS, by JACOB GLATSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without jews there will be no jewish god Last Line: Jewish god, soon you are no more Alternate Author Name(s): Glatshteyn, Yankev; Gladstone, Jacob Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WITNESS, by MONIQUE PASTERNAK Poem Source First Line: On november the eighth Last Line: Another one rises %and breathes itself to the shore Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WOMAN OF VALOR, WHO CAN FIND?, by RENEE ALFANDARY Poem Source First Line: Once upon a time in concord, california, there lived a woman of valor with Last Line: A man of valor, who can find? Subject(s): Jews - Women WOMEN AT THE CHURCHYARD, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Source First Line: Which is the word in every tongue Last Line: But which lies in death's dominion Subject(s): Human Rights; Jews WOMEN BATHING AT BERGEN-BELSEN, by ENID SHOMER Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve hours after the allies arrive Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism WOMEN BATHING AT BERGEN-BELSEN, by ENID SHOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve hours after the allies arrive Last Line: Of the body, that kingdom to which they've returned Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WOMEN'S TALK, by HELEN PAPELL Poem Source First Line: The women go one by one aliyah Last Line: Skipping with your syllables %down the centuries of womne Subject(s): Jews - Women WOODCUTTER IN THE BEECH WOOD, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: As the saw whined the sawyer Last Line: He mourned for the thick %limbs, the whole tree Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WORD ABOUT ETHEL, by LEYB KVITKO Poem Source First Line: I swear to keep it in my memory for all time Last Line: Dear ethel, let me help you not to hate the world . . . Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WORD EVENTS, by NACHMAN OF BRATZLAV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Read a verse. %read a verse backwards Alternate Author Name(s): Nachman Of Breslo Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism WORDS FOR A SONG, by HELEN NEVILLE Poem Source First Line: I do not mind Last Line: In a language I cannot hope to understand %and all the beautiful marble columns broken Subject(s): Jews - Women WORDS: AN ENVIRONMENT EVENT, by ALAN KAPROW Poem Source First Line: Two rooms 9'x9', leading railroad style into another, 6'x6', each Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism WORK AND WORRY, by CHERYL J. FISH Poem Source First Line: You seemed older Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR, by DAN PAGIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this carload Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; War; Judaism WRITTEN IN PENCIL IN THE SEALED RAILWAY-CAR, by DAN PAGIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this carload Last Line: Cain son of man %tell him that I Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; War YAD VASHEM, by HANS JUERGENSEN Poem Source First Line: We had to enter Last Line: Of naked stone-heads %toward which %we turn Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YAEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She must be an angel, waiting outside Last Line: She knows what she has to do Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War YEAH, RIGHT, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: You picked a seat across from mine Last Line: This is a date I'd best refuse Subject(s): Jews; Medicine YEARS LATER, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: When david grew up and became a man Last Line: In that grave waiting beside his wife's Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky YEHUDA OF THE MIST, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: You have asked my story, frank,' yehuda sighed Last Line: Can he find anything, reb frank, who follows nothing? Subject(s): Jews; Synagogues YELLOW STARRED, by MARY PHILIP DE CAMARA Poem Source First Line: Approach the holocaust %only with synecdoche Last Line: A lone symbol - twisted cross %one god, %one sound - silence Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YHVH'S BATTLE WITH THE SERPENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Waken / waken / gird might of arm Last Line: You made them Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism YIDDISH, by JUDITH HERZBERG Poem Source First Line: My father sang the songs %his mother used to sing Last Line: But it misses you Subject(s): Jews; Yiddish YIDDISH, by LAYLE SILBERT Poem Source First Line: On the second anniversary of liberation Last Line: Lithuanian learned from my father %it didn't matter Subject(s): Jews - Women; Lithuania; Yiddish YIDDISH FOR GOYS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With a word -- shlep, or nebish, or shlemiel -- Last Line: He used to say. That shmuck hitler could kill %a tough momzer like me? Subject(s): Jews; Language; Yiddish YIGDAL, by PHILIP ABRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Extol we now the living god Last Line: His name be ever blest. Subject(s): Creation; God; Jews; Judaism YIGDAL, by FLORENCE AHRONSBERG Poem Text First Line: Extolled be the living god and lauded be his / name Last Line: For ever blessed be his name, his praise fore'er resound. Subject(s): God; Holy Ghost; Jews; Praise; Holy Spirit; Judaism YIGDAL, by ALICE LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The living god we praise, exalt, adore! Last Line: Praised be his glorious name for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Montefiore, Julia Subject(s): God; Jews; Moses; Prophecy & Prophets; 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 YIZKOR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Four score, leo boasts his vigor Last Line: With not a mention of death Subject(s): Jews; Medicine YOM HASHOAH, by ESTELLE GERSHGOREN NOVAK Poem Source First Line: I only read about you Last Line: I remain, my own tears %ignorant and astonished Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM HASHOAH, by R. GABRIELE S. SILTEN Poem Source First Line: Yom hashoah has come again Last Line: With every yom hashoah that passes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM HAZIKARON, by EDMUND PENNANT Poem Source First Line: Because every monstrosity %is diminished by the next Last Line: Everything that happened %which we want to forget Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM KIPPUR, by CHANA BLOCH Poem Source First Line: Our new clothes fool no one Last Line: Their gold tongues whetted Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by ERIC CHAET Poem Source First Line: I throw off all the ceremony Last Line: I am trying to operate %from the fire that is the bush Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by GUSTAV GOTTHEIL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee we give ourselves today Last Line: Thy light at our life's eventide. Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Belief; Creed; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of hosts, thou only one Last Line: "thy will be done!" Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones Last Line: And leaves return to willing trees for spring Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by DORIS RADIN Poem Source First Line: A head sits upon a table Last Line: Facinc me %until the bones of my skull %yom kippur Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by GARRET ROSENBLATT Poem Source First Line: The world collapses upon a single day Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by ANN MARIE SOLBERG Poem Source First Line: Your law says you belong to each other Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by BRADLEY R. STRAHAN Poem Source First Line: In this great synagogue Last Line: That year by year %pushes heavenward %in scorn of ax and saw Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: We swallow our won spit Last Line: Strange to us, as we arrive, %gaunt, ravished, to break the fast Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR - THE CLOSING OF THE GATES, by DANNY SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: Let there be one grand cry of relief Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR 1983-1988 (TO D.S.V.), by REYNOLDS PRICE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sundown a full five years ago Last Line: And jogged ahead to claim my crime Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a jew in solitude? Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a jew in solitude? Last Line: In that world as it may be, newborn and haunted, what will solitude mean? Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR FOR A SURVIVOR, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This dark, early thursday a.M. Last Line: Turn to kaddish-flames, forgotten names, god-ashes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOM KIPPUR SONNET, WITH A LINE FROM LAMENTATIONS, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: Can a person atone for pure bewilderment? Last Line: Return us, lord, to you, and we'll return Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Yom Kippur YOM KIPPUR, 5760: MUSAF, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I lean back in my seat %catch my kippah that slips Last Line: With things the way they are _ %that's a lot Subject(s): Jews; Medicine YOM KIPPUR: FASTING, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: The appetite stirs Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur YOSOM, by BLU GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: Yeshiva handsome: %a hooked nose Last Line: Straightened his hat Subject(s): Jews - Women YOU, by NELLY LEONIE SACHS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You %in the night Last Line: Whose completion %is left to the dying Alternate Author Name(s): Sachs, Nelly Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOU ARE TIRED OF SUN AND FROLIC, by ISRAEL JACOB SCHWARTZ Poem Source Last Line: Yes, we're tired, tired and wretched; %husha, hushabye Subject(s): Jews - Kentucky YOU CAN FEEL THE RISING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: At the center of the house Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Thought YOU HAVE SWORN TO ME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women YOU HAVE TO BEGIN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Still felt or is it %(not less) %remembered Subject(s): Arabs; Brides; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine YOU KNOW THE FUNNY THING IS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source Last Line: Have been there. Otherwise %I wouldn't have known Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOU WHO ARE PASSING THROUGH, by ELI WIESEL Poem Source First Line: Close your eyes, you who are passing through, and see: a people almost gone ... Last Line: It is their voice Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOUNG HEBREW SPEAKS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday as I lay nigh dead with toil Subject(s): Jews YOUNG MOTHER, by ABRAHAM SUTZKEVER Poem Source First Line: Since there's nothing in the whole wide world, no other Last Line: And, like stars, stream in the wintry flakes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews YOUNG WOMAN'S NEO-ARAMAIC JEWISH PERISAN BLUES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Would write a letter with Last Line: Dies from it %because you wouldn't %let it just be Subject(s): Iran; Jews YOUNG WOMEN LEAVE HOME, by RIFKA FINGERHUT Poem Source First Line: When young women leave home Last Line: Young ones loving one another with the skills their mothers taught them Subject(s): Jews - Women YOUR IMAGE IS LIKE A TENDER BRANCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Jews - Women YOUR MICHAEL, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Your nights since then are sleepless. How could you know? Last Line: He signed and sealed his fatal farewell note? Subject(s): Jews; Medicine ZALMAN, by SEYMOUR MAYNE Poem Source First Line: The name was curiously given. %both families agreed the firstborn's Last Line: She will live. %-- on their lips and in my face Subject(s): Jews ZAPH DESCRIBES THE HAUNTS OF MALZAH, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The jewish king now walks at large and sound Last Line: "satyr or fawn, give chase and call out ""malzah!" Subject(s): Evil; Jews; Supernatural; 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 ZION, by EUGENE KOHN Poem Text First Line: Land of the cedar and palm Last Line: In god's time we shall come to thee. Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Peace; Praise; Zionism; Judaism ZION, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood - a hill-ensceptred queen Last Line: And only left her story. Subject(s): Jews ZION'S UNIVERSAL TEMPLE, by HARRY WEISS Poem Text First Line: Under the orient skies of sapphire where the sun Last Line: Echo shall forevermore. Subject(s): God; Jews; Temples; Zionism; Judaism; Mosques 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 ZIONISM, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am come with the dawn on the swift wings of light Last Line: From the land of the shadow of death! Subject(s): 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 ZIP-DOOR JOHNNY, by MARION D. S. DREYFUS Poem Source First Line: He'd stand out in the Last Line: His sometimes %pissass %ways Subject(s): Jews - Women ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 2. DEATH OF ALTHEETOR, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon over meles' grave the wild flower dropt Last Line: With all her house; and seeks her own acacia grove. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jews; Love; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ZUDIOSKA, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: Smug in her adriatic noon, dubrovnik beams Last Line: Shield your eyes when you come back into the light %or the beaming stones will burn them as if you a Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews ZURICH, THE STORK INN, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of too much was our talk, of Last Line: Don't know, do we? %what %counts Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews |
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