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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 | |