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Table of Contents: “…-- Without commercials -- No one can watch the Wasichu -- The thing itself -- Torture -- Well. -- Song -- These days -- My heart has reopened to you -- Some things I like about my triple bloods -- Telling -- Pagan -- Natural star -- If there was any justice -- Beast -- Ndebele -- We have a map of the world -- The right to life -- Armah -- The awakening -- A woman is not a potted plant -- Winnie Mandela we love you -- We have a beautiful mother -- Once, again.…”

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Table of Contents: “…she looks so pale -- If stars dropped out of heaven -- "Goodbye iin fear, goodbye in sorrow" -- If the sun could tell us half -- If the moon came from heaven -- O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the easy -- What do the stars do -- Motherless baby and babyless mother -- Crimson curtains round my mother's bed -- Baby lies so fast asleep -- I know a baby, such a baby -- Lullaby, oh lullaby -- Lie a-bed.…”

Table of Contents: “…Pletneff / Karolina Pavlova -- Sad is the seagull -- My little love lies on the ground -- A woman grows soon old / Larin Paraske -- On the tower -- In the grass / Annette von Droste-Hulshoff -- Woe is me, my soul says, how bitter is my fate / Rahel Morpurgo -- Finally -- Fear / Vittoria Aganoor Pompili -- On leaving / Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda -- Long May -- How placidly shine -- In the sky, clearest blue -- Crickets and locusts, cicadas / Rosalia de Castro -- Let's get going / Leyla Hanim -- Reply to a marriage proposal / Irihapeti Rangi te Apakura -- from Aurora Leigh / Elizabeth Barret Browning -- The Visionary -- Stanzas -- Cold in the Earth / Emily Bronte -- A triad -- Long barren / Christina Rossetti -- Wild nights -- wild nights! …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Samson rends his clothes / Anadad Eldan -- Eve -- Abishag / Jakov Fichman -- Isaac -- Moses -- Joshua's face -- Saul -- My brother was silent -- Samson -- Seeds of lead -- Birth / Amir Gilboa -- Absalom -- Pomegranate tree in Jerusalem -- Flying letters / Zerubavel Gilead -- Heavenly Jerusalem, Jerusalem of the Earth -- God once commanded us -- From my mother's home -- Toward myself -- Answer / Leah Goldberg -- With my God, the Smith -- Like a woman -- Great sad one -- How it is -- Valley of men -- There is a box -- Hour -- On the pole -- Song at the skirts of heaven / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- Short eulogy -- Not going with it / Zali Gurevitch -- Isaac -- Anath -- My Samsons -- Nine men out of a Minyan -- On my return -- Rain -- Latter purification / Haim Guri -- Do not accompany me / Shimon Halkin -- Talk to me, talk to me -- It was gentle -- Whenever the snakes come / Hedva Harkavi -- Green refrain -- Time -- Nocturnal thoughts -- Classic idyll / Avraham Huss -- Four of them -- Chambers of Jerusalem / Yehuda Karni -- First one drew me -- Radiant is the world soul -- When I want to speak / Rav Abraham Isaac Kook -- Near -- Observation at dawn -- I don't know if Mount Zion / Abba Kovner -- Massada / Yitzhak Lamdan -- On the margins of a poem -- Riddle of night / Jiri Mordecai Langer -- Old story / Rena Lee -- Purity -- Language of ancients -- Upon the lake / Hayim Lenski -- Phoenix -- White bird -- Akedah / Matti Megged -- Snow in Jerusalem -- After the war -- Like a pearl -- My mother / Hayim Naggid -- Last ones -- Tower -- Instructions for crossing the border -- Scrawled in pencil in a sealed railway car -- Draft of a reparations agreement -- Brothers -- Autobiography -- Grand Duke of New York / Dan Pagis -- Mediterranean / Israel Pincas -- End of summer -- Young virgins plucked suddenly / Berl Pomerantz -- Words of oblivion and peace -- Rains on the island -- From Jerusalem: a first poem -- Arriving -- Autumn music -- Like David -- Parting -- Memory of another climate -- Summing up -- Giving up on the shore -- Late manuscript at the Schocken Institute -- Fishermen -- Lesson in translation -- Letter out of the gray -- Biographical note / Gabriel Preil -- Folk tune -- Serenade for two poplars / Esther Raab -- Rachel -- My white book of poems -- Revolt -- My dead -- Perhaps / Rachel -- Lament / Yonathan Ratosh -- Dress of fire -- Surely you remember -- Requiem after seventeen years / Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Moses on Mount Nebo / Abraham Regelson -- I am a king / I Z Rimon -- Beginning -- I am like a book / David Rokeah -- Young deer/dust -- Treason of sand -- Song / Hemda Roth -- Among iron fragments -- First days -- I left -- Document / Tuvia Ruebner -- In the forest -- In the garden of the Turkish consulate -- Raya Brenner -- Elegy / Pinhas Sadeh -- Splendor / Shin Shalom -- Trembling -- Expectation -- Resurrection of the dead -- Drunkenness of pain -- Sea-games -- Akedah -- Song of the closing service / Aliza Shenhar -- Prayer -- Stars on Shabbat -- Pledge -- New Genesis -- Dress me, dear mother / Avraham Shlonsky -- Diary of the sailors of the North / David Shulman -- Abraham -- Proust on Noah / Eisig Silberschlag -- Children's song -- In Jerusalem are women -- Forty years peace -- To Xanadu, which is Beth Shaul / Arye Sivan -- With a book at twilight -- World is not a fenced-off garden -- Donkey will carry you / Jakov Steinberg -- His mother's love -- Grave at Cassino / Noah Stern -- Lament for the European exile -- In the discreet splendor -- On the path -- Voice in the dark / A L Strauss -- Trees once walked and stood -- My soul hovers over me -- Life of hard times / Joshua Tan Pai -- Man is nothing but -- Grave -- Saul's song of love -- Death of Tammuz / Shaul Tchernichovsky -- Seal of fire -- Foul water -- Hidden bow -- Your presence / Mordecai Temkin -- Cage -- Salmon cycle -- Deserted shrine / Avner Treinin -- Jerusalem -- In the cabinet -- Training on the shore -- Midnight and ten minutes -- Need to love -- Parting -- Lullaby / Shlomo Vinner -- Days were great as lakes -- Our childhood spilled into our hearts -- How can I see you, love -- Black flags are fluttering -- Plain, humble letters -- When I was growing up -- In fine, transparent words -- Now I have forgotten all / David Vogel -- Cradle song -- When the angels are exhausted -- Death -- She was always here / Yona Wallach -- One goes with me along the shore -- If my hands were mute -- Somewhere you exist -- I love what is not / Manfred Winkler -- Poem on the Jews -- Poem on the guilt -- Poem on our mother, our mother Rachel / Avot Yeshurun -- Another poem on Absalom -- South wind -- Silver turns into night / Nathan Yonathan -- When God first said -- Quiet light of flies -- To be a master in your house -- When the last riders -- In this deep darkness -- Short winter tale -- Perhaps it's only music -- Peaceful song -- As sand -- Against parting -- No -- Listening to her -- Foreign country / Natan Zach -- I stood in Jerusalem -- Moon is teaching bible -- In the dry riverbed -- With my grandfather -- Light a candle / Zelda -- At Dante's grave -- Last / Ezra Zussman.…”