Songs from Bialik

Hayim Nahman Bialik is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets of modern times. As he possessed a thorough command of Hebrew and the unusual ability to use fully the resources of the language, his literary career is touted as a turning point in modern Hebrew literature. He greatly influenced and, to a large degree, anticipated the Hebrew spoken in modern Israel.

Several poems, particularly his immensely popular children's verse, has been set to music. He is considered Israel's national poet. Until now there has been little academic attention in English about Bialik's work; Hadari's new translation of a selection of his major work fills that void.

Acknowledgments

xi

Translator's Note

xiii

Hayim Nahman Bialik's Poetry: An Introduction

xvii

Dan Miron

City of the Killings

1

(9)

Stand Strong, Wall of Sorrow

10

(1)

On the Slaughter

11

(1)

I Knew in a Night of Fog

12

(1)

Night Thoughts

13

(2)

To the Legend

15

(2)

King David's Tomb

17

(1)

My Mother, Her Memory Be Blessed

18

(2)

My Father

20

(3)

Alone

23

(1)

If the Angel Asks

24

(2)

Before the Book Closet

26

(3)

They Are Shaking Themselves Off from Dust

29

(1)

Prophet, Go Flee!

30

(1)

My Soul Bows

31

(1)

I Was Not Given Light

32

(1)

I Sowed to the Wind My Sigh

33

(1)

Dusk

34

(1)

The Tear Drop Dropped

35

(1)

The Sea of Silence

36

(1)

Butterfly

37

(2)

Ring Ring

39

(1)

Yesterday's Stems

40

(1)

Nobody Knew Who She Was

41

(3)

Your Two Eyes

44

(1)

It Was a Summer Night

45

(2)

Tonight I Lurked

47

(1)

Only One Ray

48

(1)

Her Eyes

49

(2)

The Hungry Eyes

51

(1)

Take Me In under Your Wing

52

(1)

Where Are You

53

(1)

You Are Going from Me

54

(2)

To Your Hidden Way

56

(1)

If There Comes a Day When You Shall Find

57

(2)

After My Death

59

(2)

With the Last Red Dregs of Sunset

61

(1)

God Did Not Show

62

(2)

When I Return

64

(1)

Summer Is Waning

65

(1)

Stars Wink and Go Out

66

(1)

Sometimes the Heart

67

(1)

A New Way

68

(1)

Not in the Day nor in the Night

69

(1)

My Peacock of Gold

70

(1)

A Golden Carriage

71

(1)

One Has a Precious Stone

72

(2)

One Finds Dinars

74

(1)

One, Two

75

(1)

I've a Garden

76

(2)

Between the River Prat and Stream Hidkel

78

(3)

A Little Note

81

(2)

A Penny, A Penny

83

(1)

If Satan...

84

(1)

Outside the Countenance of God

85

(1)

In False Promises Don't Trust

86

(1)

A Twig Fell

87

(1)

And Whoever He Be Who Comes After

88

(2)

Who Am I and What Am I

90

(1)

That I Could Be One of You

91

(2)

One by One and with No One Seeing

93

(4)

Be to Me Once More a Shelter

97

(1)

Your Breath Passed upon My Face

98

(2)

Speech

100

(2)

And It Came to Pass

102

(2)

Even in His Revelation to Your Eyes

104

(1)

In Me There Nest Snakes and Adders

105

(1)

Call for the Snakes

106

(2)

Indeed This People Is Grass

108

(2)

On Your Heart That's Barren

110

(1)

[Untitled]

111

(1)

Secrets of Night

112

(4)

One Distant Star

116

(2)

Graveyard

118

(1)

On a Day of Summer, Hot Day

119

(2)

At Close of Day

121

(2)

A Faithful Tear

123

(1)

Midnight Prayer

124

(2)

Songs of Winter

126

(8)

On the Morning Star

134

(3)

The Conductor of the Dance

137

(3)

The Pool

140

(6)

The Scroll of Fire

146

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