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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREE LOVE POEMS: 2, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poet's Biography First Line: Take the blood of the grape Subject(s): Jews; Love; Mysticism - Judaism; Judaism | |||
take the blood of the grape from her red jeweled glass like fire in middle of hail this lady with lips of scarlet thread roof of her mouth like good wine mouth like her body well perfumed: from blood of corpses the tips of her fingers are red thus half of her hand is like ruby half quartz Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD A LITTLE HISTORY by DAVID LEHMAN FOR I WILL CONSIDER YOUR DOG MOLLY by DAVID LEHMAN JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE NATIONAL THOUGHTS by YEHUDA AMICHAI SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL THREE LOVE POEMS: 1 by SAMUEL HA-NAGID |
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