Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ISRAEL IN RUSSIA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art but one! O god to whom we bow Last Line: "father! Forgive them!" Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Persecution; Right To Asylum; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians | ||||||||
THOU art but One! O God to Whom we bow In adoration; E'en as in Egypt, Thou wilt hear us now Thy Chosen Nation. Much have we sinned; far from Thy face have fled, By passion driven. Deep our repentance; Thou myself hast said We are forgiven. Empires of old upon us heaped their chains, Burthens and lashes; Thy thunders rolledand of their might remains Stubble and ashes! Still those we taught to hold Thy Name in awe Smite and berate us; We are the leash that binds them to Thy Law Wherefore they hate us! Vengeance is Thine! yet Thine is mercy, too. "Shield us, but grieve them Not!" be our prayer: "They know not what they do. Father! forgive them!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 259 by LYN HEJINIAN A FOREIGN COUNTRY by JOSEPHINE MILES THE DIAMOND PERSONA by NORMAN DUBIE IN MEMORIAM: 1933 (7. RUSSIA: ANNO 1905) by CHARLES REZNIKOFF TAKE A LETTER TO DMITRI SHOSTAKOVITCH by CARL SANDBURG READING THE RUSSIANS by RUTH STONE THE SOVIET CIRCUS VISITS HAVANA, 1969 by VIRGIL SUAREZ A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS by KAREN SWENSON |
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