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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JERUSALEM Matches Found: 181 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE NEW JERUSALEM; OR, THE SOUL'S BREATHING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o mother dear, jerusalem" Last Line: "to sing thy praise, o god of hosts! / forever and amen!" Subject(s): Heaven;jerusalem; Paradise A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 14, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As by the streams of babylon Last Line: And 'gainst the stones dash out their brains! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Travel A CALL TO THE BUILDERS, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: Ye may not rear it now,-though some aver Last Line: The light of lives with oil of knowledge fed! Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): Israel; Jerusalem; Jews; Synagogues; Judaism A HYMN OF ZION, by JOEL BLAU Poem Text First Line: Zion, we love thee well Last Line: O'er zion's hill! Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Israel; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Judaism AD ASTRA: 97, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Are there not signs that god still loveth them? Last Line: With dawning greatness of the jewish name! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism AFRAID, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Why slew they workman jesus Last Line: Because they were afraid! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools AFTER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had been looking at an idol in a glass case Last Line: There is absence, unreadable Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AKIBA, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism AKIBA, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is covered with signs. The body and face of man Last Line: The signs, the journeys of the night, survive Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews ALL OVER REHAVIA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And all the children %have gone back to school Subject(s): Arabs; Europe; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AND THEN YOU WERE PEELING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Our luggage unopened %at the door Subject(s): Arabs; Hearts; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine AND YOU ON MY BIRTHDAY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Prayer %on a grain of rice Subject(s): Arabs; Birthdays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ANTIPAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hidden from the darkness of our mortal sight Last Line: Wishless in the sanctuary of christ's embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem ARAB AND JEW IN ALASKA, by GREGORY ORFALEA Poem Source First Line: Two sons of sem, called by an unknown Last Line: And alone. Someday, again, %home Subject(s): Alaska; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews AS COLD WATERS TO A THIRSTY SOUL, SO IS GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden-haired, lily-white Last Line: Yea, thus they joyed who now are overjoyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem ASPARAGUS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw the asparagus stand up in one bunch Last Line: Have to watch where we're going or simply make do Subject(s): Arabs; Asparagus; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Vegetables AT JERUSALEM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by the holy city Last Line: The lord is round his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): God; Jerusalem AT THE WAILING WALL, by HILARY THAM Poem Source First Line: At the wall, hands in your pockets Subject(s): Wailing Wall, Jerusalem AT THE WAILING WALL, by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: Between stones, weeds Last Line: Snap you, the soldiers, and the wall, %with--higher up-- %the golden dome of islam %bright with ice Subject(s): Wailing Wall, Jerusalem AT THE WALL, by VERNICE WINEERA PERE Poem Source First Line: It is 3:00 shabbat Last Line: Raze the rock of thine austerity Subject(s): Jerusalem; Mormons ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 20, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the sunrise. Golden arrows Last Line: And the town jerusalem. Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Jerusalem; Love; Sunrise; Nightmares BAR MITZVAH AT THE WAILING WALL, by DEAN SHAVIT Poem Source First Line: The same old prayer at noon, a yemenite Last Line: No common place, %no entrance Subject(s): Bar And Bat Mitzvahs; Wailing Wall, Jerusalem BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely city in a lovely land Last Line: Faint yet pursuing, home on tireless feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem BECAUSE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To measure a fence Subject(s): Arabs; Depression, Mental; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine BLACK INK BLACK PAINT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Whiter %and more strange Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Paintings And Painters; Palestine BUILDING A NEW JERUSALEM, by LEE STEUER Poem Source First Line: In an ocean Last Line: Golden words are replaced %with wooden ones Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Jerusalem CAELICA: 109, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sion lies waste, and thy jerusalem Last Line: To yield the sin her everlasting doom. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Bible; Jerusalem; Religion; Theology CHARTREUSE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the french alps near grenoble the carthusian monks Last Line: The airport falls, if it isn't the life we expected, something close Subject(s): Arabs; Herbs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins CITY LEVITATES, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm back %in the unmade bed Subject(s): Arabs; Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine DAILY RITUAL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The world ali says %and dreams Subject(s): Ali, Muhammad (cassius Clay); Arabs; Boxing And Boxers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets DEATH OF RACHEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All day she stirs the soup Last Line: She stirs the dust into dust Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine DIRGE ON THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: How the gold was tarnished, the finest gold debased! Last Line: Lay bear all your sins! Subject(s): Jerusalem DYING IN JERUSALEM, by THOMAS RAGG Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Last Line: My father's land! My own! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Judaism EMPEROR OF CHINA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember the boy who played with a rope Last Line: Wrings on the rag and wipes them again Subject(s): Arabs; Courts And Courtiers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine EVIL HAS BEEN COMMITTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We will have to fall back on Subject(s): Arabs; Evil; Fasts And Feasts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Yom Kippur FEBRUARY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The park hangs on to what keeps growing Last Line: To the end feel like %becoming? Subject(s): Arabs; February; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Winter FLOOR KEEPS TURNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She looks at her watch Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Time FORGETTING' HE SAID, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And what we had wanted %to forget Subject(s): Arabs; Aviation And Aviators; Hotels; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Travel HAUNTING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If all she remembered at the end Last Line: At my [or, your] daughter with her eyes? Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Daughters; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine HERZL'S REBURIAL IN JERUSALEM, by JOSEPH LEFTWICH Poem Source First Line: Once a man looked down from a mountain Last Line: Each dawn lights your memory. %your yorzeit flame burns clear Subject(s): Funerals; Herzl, Theodore (1860-1904); Jerusalem HOLY CITY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I lay a-sleeping Subject(s): Jerusalem HUBRIS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loom is computerized Last Line: Where will they hide him %when the romans come? Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices HYMN: TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem, jerusalem! Enthroned once on high Last Line: "and in the new jerusalem thy home for ever be!" Subject(s): Jerusalem I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine IDENTITY, by ROBERT FRIEND Poem Source First Line: Words are written %on the wailing wall Last Line: In the cold syllables %of the tongue I love Subject(s): Wailing Wall, Jerusalem IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the most terrible of voices / or silence Subject(s): Jerusalem IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the most terrible of voices - %or silence Subject(s): Jerusalem IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the melancholy that is made Last Line: And something more. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Forgetfulness; Jerusalem; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens IMMERSION, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound is not human Last Line: Light from the wooden grille at the window %arranges its petals on the stone Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Drowning; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine IN PREPARATION FOR A RETURN TO JERUSALEM - 1985, by DANNY SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: There are occasional poems in my repertoire Variant Title(s): When Your Senses Are Overwhelmen In Jerusalem - Retur Subject(s): Jerusalem IN THE BEGINNING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When he wakes, he turns Last Line: Who she is, or %what he lost Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nature; Palestine; Relationships INTRODUCTION, by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Did I intend my lines for public view Last Line: For groves of laurel thou wert never meant: %be dark enough thy shades, and be thou there content Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jerusalem ISLANDS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is calm as a good wife Last Line: Astonished lovers whispering, %what happens next? Subject(s): Arabs; Islands; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sea JEHUDA BEN HALEVY: A FRAGMENT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If, jerusalem, I ever Last Line: Can but kill, they cannot judge us Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141) JERUSALEM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four lamps were burning o'er two mighty grave Last Line: Though crushed and ruined all --which men have called divine. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Jerusalem JERUSALEM, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem, that place divine Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM, by JOHN KEBBLE HERVEY Poem Text First Line: The ancient of cities!-the lady of nations! Last Line: And the streams flowing backward to zion again! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Zionism; Judaism JERUSALEM, by P. C. L. Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! Jerus'lem! Thy glories have fled Last Line: In the faith of his word, and the might of his arm. Subject(s): Faith; Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Praise; War; Zionism; Belief; Creed; Judaism JERUSALEM, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream, children Last Line: And hear the sirens screaming %and the carob-tree is bare Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A city - its name keeps it intact Last Line: It is in high places love %condescends to be put to death Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM (1), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not interested in / who suffered the most Last Line: It's late but everything comes next. Subject(s): Healing; Israel; Jerusalem; Palestine; Peace; Cures JERUSALEM DELIVERED, SELS., by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 1, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A city of ascensions Last Line: Just another %launching pad, as I get off %the bus and head home Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 10, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I understand we are like smoke Last Line: Nothing I do with my life %could be as beautiful Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 11, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lizard lines in his skin Last Line: Even as the pen %darts into the shadow of the page Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 12, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have dreams coming out of my ears Last Line: He approaches %the blocked-off gate of the walled city. %taste the dream of the jews Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 13, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I want to sit out all the time Last Line: It was all happening inside the city. %and at the edge was desert Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 14, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Middle east music on the radio: hebrew Last Line: Carmel dry gin %taking me up zion's hill. %lights on the stones of the ancient city Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 15, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who needs more happiness? People living Last Line: A lengthening interval between %the sonic boom and the rattled glass Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 2. POSTCARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is not far from here Last Line: The pleasant valley of hinnom, %pink, scarred and silent %inthe fading light Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 3, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you begin housekeeping Last Line: I am old enough, and look back %on this life I have begun Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 4. TOURISTS, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She is crying over three olives Last Line: Where I come in %at night, the city is so beautiful Subject(s): Jerusalem; Tourists JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 5, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the temple mount Last Line: Though I myself constitute %the sightseers, worshippers, %and sometimes the visiting god Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 6, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever brought me here, to a new moon Last Line: And language in my head %that I brought with me, that I carry, %that I use to mark my way Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 7, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My way of being in the world Last Line: But that the particulars %of my life become manifest %to me walking in these dark streets Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 8. FOR C. R., by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I dropped permanence from my back Last Line: How bright became the sunlight, %how sweet the evening air Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM NOTEBOOK: 9. THE OLD JEWISH POET FLOATS ..., by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is the lowest place on earth Last Line: These judean junk hills %fill his head with sulphur. %every hill is a hill of skulls Subject(s): Jerusalem; Poetry And Poets JERUSALEM OF FIRE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy holiness their hire, / jerusalem Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 78. LUZZATO, PADUA 1727, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sentences we studied are rungs upon the ladder jacob saw Last Line: Our land is not of stones or earth Subject(s): Jerusalem JERUSALEM, REJOICE FOR JOY, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jerusalem JOB'S WIFE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She has to pity him after what happened Last Line: At the unrelenting sky Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine JULIAN'S ATTEMPT TO BUILD ON THE SITE OF THE TEMPLE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd is climbing up the sacred hill Last Line: Shall change the story of araunah's floor. Subject(s): Julian The Apostate (331-363); Temple, The (jerusalem) JUMP, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sundays. Sun-narrowed eyes. My father Last Line: What I want most is on the other Subject(s): Arabs; Boats; Fathers; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LADDERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the angels were too old Last Line: We could count on a ram in the thicket %or stop the knife Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LAMENT FOR JERUSALEM, by MARION MOSS Poem Text First Line: Jerusalem! On thy ruin'd walls Last Line: Amongst the nations take thy stand? Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism LAMENTATION OVER JERUSALEM, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There have been tears from holier eyes Last Line: On the rebellious race that crucified their lord! Subject(s): Jerusalem LAST FLING OF SUNDOWN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: It is always that simple Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LAWNS OF DELHI, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the lawns of the mogul gardens Last Line: As they crouched over themselves Subject(s): Arabs; Gardens And Gardening; Jerusalem; Jews; Lawns; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women LET US DEPART, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night hung on salem's towers Last Line: "let us depart!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Jerusalem; Temples; Mosques LISTENING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You told it softly, not looking at my face Last Line: Listen with my body to the real world %the simple hunger of the child Subject(s): Arabs; Hunger; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine LITTLE LATE MARRIAGE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was never young with you Last Line: At least we seem to be going %in the same direction Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Marriage; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LITTLE LOVE POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Just enough to %keep going Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets LONGING FOR JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O city of the world, with sacred splendor blest Last Line: As sweet as honey then, my passion, my desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Memory; Judaism LOOKING TOWARDS JERUSALEM, by NA'IM ARAIDI Poem Source First Line: Maybe we should gather %all the boulders Last Line: We shall call it jerusalem Subject(s): Jerusalem; Middle East - Conflicts MAYOR, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's sad to be Last Line: Who have become the slaves cof man Subject(s): Mayors; Jerusalem NEHEMIAH'S NIGHT RIDE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nehemiah rode into the dark Last Line: Hard by him, and a loud and lonely cry! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Nehemiah (5th Century B.c.) NEW JERUSALEM (LONGER VERSION), by F. B. P. Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem, my happy home Subject(s): Jerusalem NEW JERUSALEM (SHORTER VERSION), by F. B. P. Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem, my happy home Subject(s): Jerusalem; Religion NEW TRANSLATION OF TSVETAYEVA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: She couldn't get in Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Tsvetayeva, Marina (1892-1941) NINTH OF AB, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: August is flat and still, with ever-thickening green Last Line: By force of will or neglect, returning and unstoppable Subject(s): Jerusalem NO RAIN YET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Cries %countthedead %countthedead Subject(s): Arabs; Birds; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine NOCTURNE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: I take my place in the insomniac's village Last Line: 7 a.M., the blue gums edge-lit, %almost honed, almost revealing Subject(s): Absence; Jerusalem; Postage Stamps; Travel; Villages NOW THEY DESIRE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sleep we have not slept Last Line: In sevenfold day of days Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem; Doves; Sleep; Dreams; Love O DEATH WHERE IS THY STING?'; A FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sleepeth: would ye wake her if ye could? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem; Death; Heaven ON CLEAR NIGHTS I WATCH, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over the %threshold Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Night; Palestine; Prayer ON THE DAY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY TITUS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the last hill that looks on thy once holy dome Last Line: Our worship, oh father, is only for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism ON THE VOYAGE TO JERUSALEM, SELS., by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A watery waste the sinful world has grown Last Line: Soon shalt thou enter the lord's sacred shrine! Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jerusalem ON THE WALL NEXT TO MY WINDOW, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Who %will make art of this Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Arabs; Bible; Home; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine ON TO THE EAST, by NAPHTALI HERZ IMBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your loins let girt be Last Line: March to zion! Ye brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Imber, Naftali Herts Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Sea Voyages; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism OUR NEIGHBOR IN CHARGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rub out %with my bare feet Subject(s): Arabs; Hebrew Literature; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Neighbors; Palestine PEACE, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave Last Line: "is only there." Subject(s): Faith; Jerusalem; Worship; Belief; Creed PINES ON OUR STREET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Split %on the fault line Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Writing And Writers PLACES I'M NOT ALLOWED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If only %I peed like them Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War POEM ABOUT JERUSALEM, by MEIR WIESELTIER First Line: If there were no jerusalem, what would Subject(s): Jerusalem PSALM ON ENTERING JERUSALEM, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS Poem Source First Line: I'm the kind of man Last Line: They all love me Subject(s): Jerusalem PUISSANCE OF THE JEW, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: For, if we be not of the lost ten tribes Last Line: With dawning greatness of the jewish name! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Nations; Wealth; Judaism; Riches; Fortunes RACHEL'S CHILDREN ARE PLAYING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And spit the shells %on the floor Subject(s): Arabs; Children; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine REALIZING JERUSALEM'S UNIQUENESS: MY 9,000TH POEM, by DANNY SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: It must be that time of year Variant Title(s): My 9,000th Poem About Jerusale Subject(s): Jerusalem REMEMBERING / WHEN JERUSALEM WAS HOME, by WILLIAM C. MCDONALD Poem Source Last Line: The stars of david %lead into the talmudic sun. %I cannot find the wailing wall Subject(s): Jerusalem; Wailing Wall, Jerusalem REMEMBERING NAT TURNER, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We saw a bloody sunset over courtland, once jerusalem Last Line: The marker split for kindling a kitchen fire. Subject(s): African Americans; Jerusalem; Slavery; Turner, Nat (1800-1831); Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs REVELATIONS; CIRCA 1948, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made no sound, at all, like the wintering Last Line: I watched. And made no sound... Subject(s): Aliens; Jerusalem; Silence; World War Ii; Extraterrestrials; Second World War RIPPLE OF VOICES AROUND THE BED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And stares %at the doctor Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Hospitals; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Nurses; Palestine; Sickness ROMANCERO: BOOK 3. HEBREW MELODIES: JEHUDA BEN HALEVY; A FRAGMENT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If, jerusalem, I ever Last Line: "both in stinking bad condition." Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judah Ha-levi (1075-1141); Judaism; Yehuda Ben Shemuel Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan S. JAMES BP. OF JERUSALEM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: All yee whose pride is built upon Last Line: In truth is, what's in shadows heere. Subject(s): Christianity; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Legends; Passover; Saints SANCTUM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On top of a hill near the lebanese border Last Line: And trust it to bear our weight %a little longer Subject(s): Arabs; Cemeteries; Cities; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors SHE SHALL BE BROUGHT UNTO THE KING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king's daughter is all glorious within Last Line: The king's daughter is. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem SHEET OF FOIL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First day of spring on the hill of anemones, masses of scarlet Last Line: Not to disturb her fingers at my back, steadying the wings Subject(s): Arabs; Childhood Memories; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SHELL-FLOWERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the turkeys you raise each year Last Line: How far it would carry you Subject(s): Arabs; Family Life; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Women SIGN ON THE NEW BRIDGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: (one place at least) %to heal Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Storms; Wind SMALL NOUNS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could tell you Last Line: Whatever it %was Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SNOW BINDS JERUSALEM TOGETHER, by DAHLIA KAVEH Poem Source Last Line: Together with my ancestors Subject(s): Jerusalem; Middle East - Conflicts SNOW IN THE CITY, by DANNY SIEGEL Poem Source First Line: The roads were jammed Last Line: Like a wedding %of heaven and earth Variant Title(s): Jerusalem In The Snow: Snow In The Cit Subject(s): Jerusalem; Snow SO MANY ZEROS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too many zeros %ending with smoke Subject(s): Arabs; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; New Year; Palestine SO WE GOT OUT OF LEBANON, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: His screech his %portentous scold %iyew iyew Subject(s): Arabs; Exiles; Jerusalem; Jews; Lebanon; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine SODOM'S SISTER CITY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem is sodom's sister city Last Line: The calm petals around the stem %god! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Sodom STAND STRONG, WALL OF SORROW, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Stand strong, wall of sorrow! Last Line: That makes monuments like these Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Wailing Wall, Jerusalem STRATIS THE SAILOR BY THE DEAD SEA, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem, ungoverned city Last Line: Many fathoms below the level of the aegean Subject(s): Death; Jerusalem THE BURDEN OF SION, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Captive and sorrow-pale, the mournful lot Last Line: All who, thro' weal and woe, were ever true to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Jerusalem; Scottish Translations THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce wrath of solomon Last Line: Gone as his mouth's last sighs. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Soldiers' Writings THE CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We see not god, yet while we grope Last Line: Our life! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The THE DAY OF VISITATION, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: O city that he loved, jerusalem Last Line: Our time of visitation may we know! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE BABYLONIAN HORDES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They left their babylon bare / or all its tall men Last Line: To a gird of babylon's mirth. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Soldiers' Writings THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem! Jerusalem! / thou art low; thou Last Line: Th' unfading splendours of his son! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Judaism THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem is built of gold Last Line: Home one by one, home one and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem THE INTRODUCTION, by ANNE FINCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Did I intend my lines for public view Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Jerusalem THE JEWS WEEPING IN JERUSALEM, by JAMES WALLIS EASTBURN Poem Text First Line: Why, trembling and sad, dost thou stand there Last Line: And sorrow and sighing shall vanish away. Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews; Pain; Zionism; Judaism; Suffering; Misery THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Jerusalem THE NEW JERUSALEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hierusalem, my happy home" Last Line: "would god my woes were at an end, / thy joys that I might see!" Variant Title(s): The Heavenly City Subject(s): Death;jerusalem;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "dead, The;virgin Mary; THE NEW JERUSALEM, by AUGUSTINE Poem Text First Line: O mother dear, jerusalem Last Line: And take me home to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Aurelius Augustinus Subject(s): Jerusalem THE NEW JERUSALEM, by ALLAN M. LAING Poem Text First Line: And did these feet, in pre-war days Last Line: In england's blind and shuttered land! Subject(s): Jerusalem; World War Ii; Second World War THE NINTH OF AB, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: August is flat and still, with ever-thickening green Subject(s): Jerusalem THE OLD WAILING WALL, by CLARA S. HOFF Poem Text First Line: The old, old wailing wall, where never cease Last Line: Still clings about the race that seeks relief. Subject(s): Wailing Wall, Jerusalem THE SCHOOL WHERE I STUDIED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I passed by the school where I studied as a boy Subject(s): Jerusalem; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE TWO RABBIS, by MRS. LEVITUS Poem Text First Line: There stood upon moriah's mount Last Line: "while thine is dewed with bitter tears." Subject(s): Clergy; Jerusalem; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THE VISION OF HUNA, by ABRAM SAMUEL ISAACS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had set upon jerusalem Last Line: As if he trod the new jerusalem. Subject(s): Clergy; Jerusalem; Jews; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism THEODORE HERZL, by HARRY MYERS Poem Text First Line: Peace! No tear for him who sleepeth near Last Line: Israel lives anew! Subject(s): Herzl, Theodore (1860-1904); Jerusalem; Jews; Peace; Zionism; Judaism THEY ARE ALL WE ARE ALL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over puget sound %as it always was Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Old Age; Palestine THEY'VE ROLLED THE PARCHMENT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As an old sweater %pulled over my head Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Rosh Hashanah THIRTY YEARS SINCE I WANTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Am I looking in this tunnel %for my dreams Subject(s): Arabs; Dreams; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TO THE GLORY OF JERUSALEM, by YEHUDA HALEVI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful height! O joy! The whole world's Last Line: Than honey—the earth of thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Halevi, Judah; Judah Ha-levi; Abu Al-hasan Subject(s): Cities; Jerusalem; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Judaism TRANSLATION: 1. OUTLET, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And what is the next move Last Line: Looking for the right %word Variant Title(s): Outle Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting TRANSLATION: 2. WIND, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the blast %that knocked down Last Line: One lemon %almost ripe Variant Title(s): Win Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Ghosts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Wind TRANSLATION: 3. FIGURE OUT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You have to be able to Last Line: You don't invent someone %who already is Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Translating And Interpreting; Voices TRANSLATION: 4. LIKELY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We never hear them Last Line: How noiseless the noise of the likely Subject(s): Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Silence TRANSLATION: 5. PUT ASIDE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bitterness %the swamp of it Last Line: Benevolent whispers %angels' wings Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRANSLATION: 6. NIBBLING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What would you do with an avocado %in your bed Last Line: Butter melting on a warm roll Subject(s): Arabs; Food And Eating; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine TRANSLATION: 7. HUMAN VESSEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cape of no-hope Last Line: Holding each other %when the wave breaks Variant Title(s): Human Vesse Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; Togetherness TROUBLE WITH ANGER, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Because I couldn't %hate %them Subject(s): Anger; Arabs; Emotions; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine UNFINISHED POEM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We live on a holy mountain Last Line: Twice a week to increase %our bone density Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Poetry And Poets UNGARETTI'S UMBRELLA, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Claude says, 'this is Last Line: We still need a shelter %over our heads Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ungaretti, Giuspeppe (1888-1970) UNSTOPPABLE FURY, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And options %still %open Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Traffic VISION OF JERUSALEM, by GRACE AGUILAR Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I saw thee, oh my fatherland, my beautiful, my own! Last Line: Our god will bring thy children back, ne'er, ne'er again to roam! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jews WAILING WALL, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: Who kneels there Subject(s): Wailing Wall, Jerusalem WAITING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the fervor Last Line: But I can't tell you how any of them sing. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Waiting; Dead, The; Judaism WAKING IN BED IN THE SHRILL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Before dawn now %shivering Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Sacrifices WEATHERMAN TELLS US, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To know where %they're going Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Snow; Weather WHAT WANTS TO CONTINUE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sometimes the door remains bolted Subject(s): Arabs; Grief; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine WHEN WICKEDNESS IS BROKEN AS A TREE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is but a trembling of enraptured love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem YAEL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She must be an angel, waiting outside Last Line: She knows what she has to do Subject(s): Angels; Arabs; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; War YOU CAN FEEL THE RISING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: At the center of the house Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Thought YOU HAVE TO BEGIN, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Still felt or is it %(not less) %remembered Subject(s): Arabs; Brides; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine |
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