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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


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


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


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 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 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 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 MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What was he doing, the great god pan
Last Line: As a reed with the reeds of the river.
Subject(s): Flutes; Mysticism; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


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 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 BAR YOHAI, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O you bar yohai
Last Line: Eyes cannot see
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism;simeon Bar Yohai (2nd Century)


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 POEM FOR THE SEFIROT AS WHEEL OF LIGHT, by NAFTALI BACHARACH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: & going 'round
Alternate Author Name(s): Bacharach, Naphtali Ben Jacob Elhana
Subject(s): Cabbala; Mysticism - Judaism; Kabbala; Kabbalah


A POEM FOR THE SHEKINAH ON THE FEAST OF THE SABBATH, by ISAAC BEN SOLOMON LURIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have sung / an old measure
Alternate Author Name(s): Ashkenazi, Isaac
Subject(s): Feasts; Mysticism - Judaism


A POEM FOR THE SMALL FACE, by ISAAC BEN SOLOMON LURIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of his palace
Alternate Author Name(s): Ashkenazi, Isaac
Subject(s): Mysticism – Judaism; Sabbath


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 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


A YELLOW PANSY, by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: To the wall of the old green garden
Last Line: Longs for the winds again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Mysticism


AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why does it matter to you whether heaven or god
Last Line: Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems—!
Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Mysticism; Nature; Weather; World


AN AUTUMN BREEZE; QUATRAIN, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This gentle and half melancholy breeze
Last Line: To voice some subtlety of sylvan grief.
Subject(s): Autumn; Mysticism; Seasons; Fall


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


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 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


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


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


CONCRETE POEM: YHVH GREAT GOD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


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


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


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


E, by ALBERT EINSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mc(2)
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism


ECHO AND SILENCE, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In eddying course when leaves began to fly
Last Line: With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill!
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Mysticism


ELIJAH AND THE PRIESTS OF BAAL: IN A TIME OF FAMINE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ayehi many days the words of yahveh to elijah in the 3rd year (saying) go let ahab see you I will tr
Subject(s): Famine; Mysticism - Judaism


EPIGRAM: THE QUID AND THE QUIS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In truths that nobody can miss / it is the quid that makes the quis
Subject(s): Truth; Mysticism


FALLING THROUGH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mystic dreamer, fierce and wild
Last Line: He thought no more of power.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Sleep; Nightmares


FIRST LIGHT POEM: FOR IRIS - 10 JUNE 1962, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of a student-lamp
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Mysticism – Judaism; Light


FIRST SAMUEL: AFTER THE SHAMANS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now samuel was dead all of israel did the rites for him & buried
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism


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


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


GEMATRIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Light %a mystery
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism


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


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


HERO / LIL: THE THIRD SHELL, by DAVID MELTZER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And behold, that hard shell (I.E. Embodiment of evil), lilith, is always
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism


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 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


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


IN FEAR OF MYSTICISM, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I don't like talking writing
Last Line: Eye too clear to hear in the forest of words
Subject(s): Mysticism


IN THE JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the jewish mystical religion, the bodies flying
Subject(s): Mysticism – Judaism; Jews


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


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 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


JUTZI SCHULTHEISS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gift of god was mine; I lost
Last Line: Because the gift I had I lost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Mysticism


KUBLA KHAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In xanadu did kubla khan / a stately pleasure dome decree
Last Line: And drunk the milk of paradise.
Variant Title(s): Romance;the Sacred River
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Dreams; Heaven; Kubla Khan (1214-1294); Mysticism; Nightmares; Paradise


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


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


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


MEISTER ECKHART, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the snow festered
Last Line: And he meant it.
Subject(s): Cold; Eckehart, Johannes (meister) (1260-1327); God; Inquisition; Mysticism; Eckhart, Meister


MENORAH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She lights the lights
Last Line: Making love
Subject(s): Jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


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


MOBILE MYSTIC SOCIETIES, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The olden golden stories of the world
Last Line: For each of you, ye mystics! Everywhere.
Subject(s): Mysticism


MOHAMMEDANISM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While the high truths to man in christ revealed
Last Line: The god of will and power.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Islam; Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Mysticism; Mahomet; Mohammed


MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When morag of the glen was fey
Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


NEW YORK, by EDWIN DAVIES SCHOONMAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sea - rimmed and teeming with millions poured out on
Last Line: Till the new day quenches the lamps and flares over tyre.
Subject(s): Cities; Immigrants; Labor & Laborers; Mysticism; New York City; Urban Life; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Work; Workers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


NIGHT MISTS; QUATRAIN, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, when nature falls asleep
Last Line: For they are nature's dreams.
Subject(s): Mysticism


NOTHING, by JOSEPH GIKATILLA    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism


ON READING THE POETRY OF A MYSTIC, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear a sound of waters; --not the combing
Last Line: Dips in the liquid dusk a flaming wing.
Subject(s): Mysticism; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Water; Theology


OUTWARD BOUND, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I leave behind me the elm-shadowed square
Last Line: Ionian isles are thine, and all the fairy shores!
Subject(s): Mysticism; Sea Voyages; Tanzania; Zanzibar


PATRIARCHAL POETRY, SELECTION, by GERTRUDE STEIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Patriachal poetry defined
Last Line: What is it
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


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


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


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


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


PSALM 137: EXILE, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We sat & cried along babylon rivers
Subject(s): Exiles; Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


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


RHOECUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God sends his teachers unto every age
Last Line: But from that eve he was alone on earth.
Variant Title(s): Divine Teachers
Subject(s): Mysticism


SEFER RAZIEL: HYMN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He promises his name. They praise its power and beauty
Last Line: In each creature / infinitely
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism


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


SERPENT, by NATHAN OF GAZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Messiah
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism


SHI'UR KOMA: THE MEASURE OF THE BODY, by ISHMAEL BEN ELISHA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the measure of the stature spoken in the book of measure
Subject(s): Bodies; Mysticism - Judaism


SONG OF THE MYSTIC, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk down the valley of silence
Last Line: And one the bright mountain of prayer.
Variant Title(s): The Valley Of Silence
Subject(s): Mysticism


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


SOUNDING EVENTS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sound the words as quickly as possible
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism


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


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


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 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 BALLAD OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the body of judas iscariot
Last Line: And dries them with his hair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Mysticism


THE BOOK BAHIR: ON THE NATURE OF EVIL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And god warned israel
Last Line: Anchored the ends of the earth
Subject(s): Evil;mysticism - Judaism


THE BOOK OF EXODUS: SONG OF THE SEA, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now moses & now israel's children sing this song
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism; Sea; Ocean


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 LEFT PILLAR, by MOSES OF BURGOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As the idea rose in the mind of god & in his pure thought to create a holy
Alternate Author Name(s): Moses Ben Solomon Ben Simeon Of Burgos
Subject(s): Mysticism - 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 BUGLES OF DREAMLAND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swiftly the dews of the gloaming are falling
Last Line: And the bugles of dreamland about us are calling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Dreams; Future Life; Mysticism; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


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 COMET, by CHARLES SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Erratic soul of some great purpose
Last Line: A loosed prometheus burning with disdain.
Subject(s): Mysticism


THE DEATH OF MATTAHIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of my age, attend
Last Line: Hope lifts my soul to thee.
Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Death; Fathers & Sons; Legacies; Mysticism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The


THE DIAMOND PERSONA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt tolstoi was mad and running away
Last Line: Above some fanciful future spring planting.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Russia; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Nightmares; Soviet Union; Russians


THE EPIC OF KING KISHVAR: THE CASTLE, by MAULANA SAHIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: High & green
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - Judaism; 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 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 GODDESS OF THE ISLANDERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the midmost page, the bookworm's pasturage
Last Line: And the opal's flame-fraught snows.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Islands; Mysticism; Mythology; Writing & Writers


THE GREAT HOLY ASSEMBLY: THE NAMES, by MOSES DE LEON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my distress
Alternate Author Name(s): Moses Ben Shem Tov De Lion
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism; Names


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 GREATER HEKHALOT: A COSMIC HYMN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A measure of holiness a measure of power
Last Line: Who comes crowned to the throne of his own massiveness
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism


THE GREATER HEKHALOT: THE DOORKEEPERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The 7th palace
Last Line: Down all jerusalem
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism


THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted
Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more.
Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness


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 KING'S HIGHWAY, by HARRIET WATERS PRESTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'll wake and watch this autumn night
Last Line: Broods on the king's highway!
Subject(s): Mysticism


THE LADY OF SHALOTT, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: On either side the river lie
Last Line: "the lady of shalott!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Mysticism; Arthur, King; Dead, The


THE LOTUS; TO M.K. GANDHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mystic lotus, sacred and sublime
Last Line: Coeval with the lords of life and death?
Subject(s): Death; Mysticism; Dead, The


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 MYSTIC, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who holds not life more yearful than the hours
Last Line: From the beginning, and of all being last.
Subject(s): Faith; Mysticism; Prophecy & Prophets; Superstition; Belief; Creed


THE MYSTIC, by GERTRUDE BONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the still light
Last Line: And on the bitter lips of the unkind.
Subject(s): Mysticism; Religion; Theology


THE MYSTIC LAND, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a land that's like a dream
Last Line: Of this mystic land—the heart?
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism


THE MYSTIC'S PRAYER, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My god, who art the god of loneliness
Last Line: Infinitude of life, too deep for aught save rest.
Subject(s): Mysticism


THE MYSTIC'S PRAYER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay me to sleep in sheltering flame
Last Line: My soul's desire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Fire; Mysticism; Prayer; Religion; Sleep; Theology


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 PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hamelin town's in brunswick
Last Line: If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise.
Subject(s): Mysticism; Rats; Revenge


THE RAVEN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore!
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The


THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an ancient mariner
Last Line: He rose the morrow morn.
Variant Title(s): The Rime Of The Ancyent Marinere (1834)
Subject(s): Albatrosses; Birds; Curses; Mysticism; Sailing & Sailors; Supernatural; Seamen; Sails


THE SNOW, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow! The snow! 'tis a pleasant thing
Last Line: Upon the falling snow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Cold; Memory; Mysticism; Snow; Thought; Winter; Thinking


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 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 TESTAMENTS OF THE 12 PATRIARCHS: JOSEPH & THE BULL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Words of our father jacob (said)
Last Line: Started to strike his brothers
Subject(s): Mysticism - 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 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 WALKER OF THE SNOW, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speed on, speed on, good master!
Last Line: Of the walker of the snow!
Subject(s): Mysticism


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


THIS IS TOO MUCH, by FLORENCE STEINBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold gray mists press close to me
Last Line: Leaving a worthless pulp—a clod.
Subject(s): Mysticism


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


TO A WELSH MYSTIC, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your eyes inspire: they draw their clear conviction
Last Line: As I have seen him at your clear windows.
Subject(s): Mysticism; Soul; Travel; Wales; Journeys; Trips; Welshmen; Welshwomen


TO THE CICADA SEPTEMDECIM, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buried at moment of thy birth
Last Line: Go forth, new-winged, to an undreamed-of light.
Subject(s): Death; Mysticism; Dead, The


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


TWO MYSTICS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have read in a worn old volume
Last Line: "and that fairy so loved and so loving,- / who can it be, dearest, but thee?"
Subject(s): Love;mysticism


ULALUME, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober
Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir
Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2)
Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The


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 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


VOTIVE TABLETS: TO THE MYSTIC, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spreads life's true mystery round us evermore
Last Line: Seen by no eye, it lies all eyes before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Mysticism


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


WHO?' OF IBN ARIBUR OF CORDOBA, by JOSEPH IBN ABITUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who %anchored the hight skies
Subject(s): Jews; Mysticism - 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


WITH WAVERING FEET, by VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH SOLOVYEV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With wavering feet I walked where dawn-lit mists were lying
Last Line: Beaten about with flame of white, triumphal fires.
Alternate Author Name(s): Solovyov, Vladimir
Subject(s): Mysticism


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: 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


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