The Lithuanian, Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934), is considered one of the greatest poets in Hebrew. A 50-page introduction on Bialik and his work precedes 83 translated poems written in the two decades preceding and following the turn of the 20th century. Poems are not organized thematically or temporally. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Acknowledgments xi Translators Note xiii Hayim Nahman Bialiks 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 Davids 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) Yesterdays 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) Ive 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 Dont 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 Thats 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
