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To the Reader | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction | |
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Muslim Spain (c. 950-c. 1140) | |
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Dunash Ben Labrat | |
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Fragment | |
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Blessing for a | |
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Drink, He Said | |
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The Wife of Dunash | |
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Will Her Love Remember? | |
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Yitzhaq Ibn Mar Sha'ul | |
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A Fawn Sought in Spain | |
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Yosef Ibn Avitor | |
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Lament for the Jews of Zion | |
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A Curse | |
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A Plea | |
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Hymn for the New Year | |
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Yitzhaq Ibn Khalfoun | |
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Love in Me Stirs | |
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A Gift of Cheese | |
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Shmu'el Hanagid | |
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On Fleeing His City | |
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The Miracle at Sea | |
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The Apple | |
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The Gazelle | |
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Jasmine | |
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In Fact I Love That Fawn | |
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Mixed in Spain | |
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Your Years Are Sleep | |
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The House of Prayer | |
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The Critique | |
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On Lifting the Siege | |
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The War with Yaddayir | |
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On the Death of Isaac, His Brother | |
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First War | |
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I'd Suck Bitter Poison | |
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Delay Your Speech | |
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The Rich | |
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People Welcome the Rich | |
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If You Leave a Long-Loved Friend | |
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You Who'd Be Wise | |
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When You're Desperate | |
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It's Heart That Discerns | |
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He'll Bring You Trouble | |
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Could Kings Right a People Gone Bad | |
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What's Familiar Is Sometimes Distanced | |
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One Who Works and Buys Himself Books | |
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Three Things | |
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Soar, Don't Settle | |
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Man's Wisdom Is in What He Writes | |
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Be Glad, She Said | |
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The Multiple Troubles of Man | |
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Gazing through the Night | |
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Earth to Man | |
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The Child at One or Two | |
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I Quartered the Troops for the Night | |
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Luxuries Ease | |
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Why Repeat the Sins | |
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At the Treasury | |
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Know of the Limbs | |
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You Mock Me Now | |
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Time Defies and Betrays | |
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The Market | |
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Yosef Ibn Hasdai | |
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The Qasida | |
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Shelomo Ibn Gabirol | |
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Truth Seekers Turn | |
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I'm Prince to the Poem | |
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Prologue to The Book of Grammar | |
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They Asked Me as though They Were Mystified | |
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See the Sun | |
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On Leaving Saragossa | |
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My Heart Thinks as the Sun Comes Up | |
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Now the Thrushes | |
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Winter with Its Ink | |
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The Garden | |
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The Field | |
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The Bee | |
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I'd Give Up My Soul Itself | |
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Be Smart with Your Love | |
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All in Red | |
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You've Stolen My Words | |
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The Altar of Song | |
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The Pen | |
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If You'd Live among Men | |
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I Am the Man | |
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Heart's Hollow | |
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I Love You | |
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Before My Being | |
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Three Things | |
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I Look for You | |
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Open the Gate | |
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The Hour of Song | |
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Send Your Spirit | |
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Angels Amassing | |
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And So It Came to Nothing | |
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He Dwells Forever | |
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Haven't I Hidden Your Name | |
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Lord Who Listens | |
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I've Made You My Refuge | |
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You Lie in My Palace | |
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From Kingdom's Crown | |
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Yitzhaq Ibn Ghiyyat | |
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My Wandering | |
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Yosef Ibn Sahl | |
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The Fleas | |
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Your Poem, My Friend | |
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A Complaint about the Rich | |
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Levi Ibn Altabbaan | |
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Utter His Oneness | |
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Exposed | |
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Bahya Ibn Paquda | |
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Duties of the Heart | |
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Moshe Ibn Ezra | |
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Weak with Wine | |
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The Garden | |
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Bring Me My Cup | |
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A Shadow | |
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The Fawn | |
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The Garden, the Miser | |
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The Pen | |
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Heart's Desire | |
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That Bitter Day | |
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Let Man Remember | |
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The Dove | |
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Why Does Time Hound Me So | |
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Ancient Graves | |
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If You See Me | |
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Ivory Palaces | |
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The World | |
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My Heart's Secret | |
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I Roused My Thoughts from Slumber | |
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Let Man Wail | |
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On the Death of His Son | |
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The Blind | |
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The Gazelle's Sigh | |
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Gold | |
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The Day to Come | |
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At the Hour of Closing | |
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Yosef Ibn Tzaddiq | |
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A Wedding Night's Consolation | |
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Lady of Grace | |
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Shelomo Ibn Tzaqbel | |
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Lines Inscribed on an Apple | |
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Note to a Suitor Now Perplexed | |
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A Fawn with Her Lashes | |
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Yehuda Halevi | |
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That Night a Gazelle | |
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A Doe Washes | |
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If Only Dawn | |
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That Day while I Had Him | |
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Another Apple | |
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To Ibn al-Mu'allim | |
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If Only I Could Give | |
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Epithalamium | |
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When a Lone Silver Hair | |
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If Time | |
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Inscriptions on Bowls | |
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Four Riddles | |
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Departure | |
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On Friendship and Time | |
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Slaves of Time | |
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Heal Me, Lord | |
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True Life | |
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The Morning Stars | |
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His Thresholds | |
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Where Will I Find You | |
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You Knew Me | |
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A Doe Far from Home | |
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A Dove in the Distance | |
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You Slept, Then Trembling Rose | |
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Love's Dwelling | |
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Lord | |
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If Only I Could Be | |
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Won't You Ask, Zion | |
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My Heart Is in the East | |
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How Long Will You Lie | |
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Heart at Sea | |
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My Soul Longed | |
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Has a Flood Washed the World | |
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In the Heart | |
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Above the Abyss | |
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Time Has Tossed Me | |
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Be with Me | |
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Along the Nile | |
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This Breeze | |
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Christian Spain and Provence (c. 1140-1492) | |
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Avraham Ibn Ezra | |
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Fortune's Stars | |
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How It Is | |
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A Cloak | |
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The Flies | |
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World Poetry | |
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All the Rest Is Commentary | |
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The Flood | |
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Reading Exodus | |
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The Miracle (at Lehi) | |
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Pleasure | |
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In Place | |
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The Wedding Night, Continued | |
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An Ancient Battle | |
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Lament for Andalusian Jewry | |
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Elegy for a Son | |
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My Hunger | |
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Sent Out from the Glory | |
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Lord, I Have Heard | |
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My God | |
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To the Soul | |
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Blessed Is He Who Fears | |
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I Bow Down | |
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Children of Exile | |
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I Call to Him | |
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You Whose Hearts Are Asleep | |
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Yitzhaq Ibn Ezra | |
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On the Death of Yehuda HaLevi | |
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Over His Boy | |
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Conversion | |
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Yosef Qimhi | |
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Love for the World | |
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Always Be Vigilant | |
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Consider This | |
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Suffer Your Sorrow | |
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On Wisdom | |
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If You Hear Someone Insult You | |
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Wait and Be Saved | |
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Wealth | |
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Silence and Speech | |
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Yosef Ibn Zabara | |
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Sweet and Sour | |
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My Ex | |
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Look at These People | |
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The Physician | |
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Anatoli Bar Yosef | |
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The Test of Poetry | |
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Motto | |
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Yehuda Ibn Shabbetai | |
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From The Offering of Yehuda the Misogynist | |
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Pharaoh's Wisdom | |
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The Misogynist in Love | |
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A Raised Offering | |
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Two Things | |
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The Sage Lies | |
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Yehuda Alharizi | |
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Born to Baseness | |
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The Hypocrite | |
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The Jerk | |
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A Miser in Mosul | |
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The Miser | |
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On Zion's Holy Hill | |
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Boys: Two Poems | |
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If Amram's Son | |
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An Answer | |
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Masters of Song | |
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Measure for Measure | |
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A Lover Wandered | |
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How Long, My Fawn | |
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Curses' Composition | |
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A Flashing Sword | |
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Palindrome for a Patron | |
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A Poem No Patron Has Ever Heard | |
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Admiration for the Patron Again I'll Prove | |
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Two Poems on Karaism | |
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For | |
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Against | |
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Virtue | |
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I'll Set Out a Verse and Lay the Foundation... | |
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Ya'aqov Ben Elazar | |
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The Hypocrite's Beard | |
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Four Poems on Subtle Love | |
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The Doe | |
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A Kiss | |
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A Lover's Transgression | |
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Spats and Squabbles | |
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Avraham Ibn Hasdai | |
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Watch Out | |
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ProPortion | |
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Age as Author | |
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Which Is More Bitter | |
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The Lying Word | |
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The Monk's Advice | |
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Advice for a Future King | |
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Wisdom's Mantle | |
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Don't Believe | |
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The Hyssop and the Cedar | |
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Meir Halevi Abulafia | |
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Plea for a Tax Break | |
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(L)attitude | |
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Fighting Time | |
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Yitzhaq Hasniri | |
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On the Worship of Wood and a Fool | |
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Meshullam Depiera | |
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The Poet | |
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On a New Book by Maimonides | |
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Before You Take Up Your Pen | |
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How Could You Press for Song | |
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As One with the Morning Stars | |
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Moshe Ben Nahman (Nahmanides) | |
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Before the World Ever Was | |
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From "One Hundred Verses" | |
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Shem Tov Ibn Falaqera | |
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Career Counseling | |
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A Mystery | |
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On Poets and Poetry | |
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Why God Made You | |
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The Fool Thinks | |
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Poverty's War | |
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Yitzhaq Ibn Sahula | |
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The Cynic Speaks | |
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On Humility | |
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Avraham Abulafia | |
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From The Book of the Letter | |
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Avraham Ben Shmu'el | |
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To Whom among the Avengers of Blood | |
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Yosef Giqatilla | |
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The Nut Garden | |
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Todros Abulafia | |
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I've Labored in Love | |
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She Said She Wanted | |
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The Day You Left | |
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That Fine Gazelle | |
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They Fight with Me over Desire | |
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That Girl Emerged | |
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May My Tongue | |
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There's Nothing Wrong in Wanting a Woman | |
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Strong Poet, Weak Poet | |
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Plaster and Pearls | |
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Nothing Left to Say | |
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Teachers and Writers | |
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Before the King | |
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My King | |
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Poems from Prison | |
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As Love Lives | |
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Treacherous Time | |
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The Filthy Lay in Darkness with Me | |
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My Rings Have Fallen | |
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Is It the Lord | |
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Time Tries as I Drift | |
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The Sea Casts Up Mire and Mud | |
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On a Bible Written by Shmu'el HaNagid | |
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Time Spreads Its Nets | |
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Old Age Is Double-Edged | |
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Perversion's Pigeons | |
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My Thinking Wove | |
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The Lord Is Good and So I'm Tormented | |
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Defiled and Pure Are One | |
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On Hearing Church Bells | |
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I Take Delight in My Cup and Wine | |
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Nahum | |
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Winter Has Waned | |
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Avraham Habedershi | |
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Why the Poet Refuses to Fight | |
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Your Muse | |
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Lament for a Foe | |
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The Poet's Distress | |
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Yitzhaq Hagorni | |
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Would You Tell Me | |
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HaGorni's Lament | |
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Yedaya Hapenini | |
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The World Is a Raging Sea | |
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Avner [of Burgos?] | |
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The Last Words of My Desire | |
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Qalonymos Ben Qalonymos | |
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On Becoming a Woman | |
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Yitzhak Polgar | |
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Faith's Philosophy' Philosophy's Faith | |
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Shem Tov Ardutiel (Santob de Carrion) | |
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From The Battles of the Pen and the Scissors | |
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Writer, You Hold | |
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To Praise the Pen | |
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Tomorrow I'll Write | |
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Enter the Scissors | |
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Work I Was Cut Out to Do | |
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The Pen Fights Back | |
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The Scissors Longed | |
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Shmu'el Ibn Sasson | |
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Man's Peril | |
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Why Most Poets Are Poor | |
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They Will Be Tried | |
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Moshe Natan | |
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Prison | |
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From "The Ten Commandments" | |
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Clothes Make the Man | |
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Shelomo Depiera | |
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Thinkers with Thinking | |
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The Bee and the Grumbler | |
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Medieval Arthritis | |
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Winter in Monzon | |
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After Conversion | |
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Tabernacles: A Prayer | |
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A Prayer for Rain and Sustenance | |
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This Year's Wine: 1417 | |
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Vidal Benveniste | |
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Advice from Wives | |
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What Girls Want | |
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To a Poet-Friend Too Much in Need | |
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Poems for a Doe in a Garden | |
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A Thank You Note | |
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Think about This | |
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Beyond Words | |
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My Son, before You Were Born | |
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To One Who Said His Heart for Verse Was Adamant | |
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Clarity | |
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What Goes Around Comes... | |
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The Tongue Speaks and the Hand Records | |
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Shelomo Halevi (Pablo de Santa Maria) | |
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Memory's Wine | |
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Shelomo Bonafed | |
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World Gone Wrong | |
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A Vision of Ibn Gabirol | |
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Wherever You Go | |
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Yitzhaq Alahdab | |
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Inflation | |
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Another Flea | |
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Security | |
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The Elderly Asked if the Doctors | |
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As Sorcerers Spread | |
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Being Poor | |
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State of the Art; or, Poetry Wails | |
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Renaissance Man | |
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Moshe Remos | |
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Last Words | |
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'Eli Ben Yosef [Havillio?] | |
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Who Soars | |
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Moshe Ibn Habib | |
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Account | |
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You Come to the House of God | |
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Sa'adia Ibn Danaan | |
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Enmity Smolders | |
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Hordes of Readers | |
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Mixed Messenger | |
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She Trapped Me | |
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Chiasmus for a Doe | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |