Hayyim Nahman Bialik Dark Poems

• 1. Return
  Once more. Look: a spent old scarecrow
  shrivelled face
  straw-dry shadow
  swaying like a leaf
  ...
• 2. On The Slaughter
  Heaven, beg mercy for me!  If there is
  a God in you, a pathway through
  you to this God - which I have not
  discovered - then pray for me!  For my
  ...
• 3. In The City Of Slaughter (excerpt)
  Proceed thence to the ruins, the split walls reach,
  Where wider grows the hollow, and greater grows the breach;
  Pass over the shattered hearth, attain the broken wall
  Whose burnt and barren brick, whose charred stones reveal
  ...
• 4. The Old Acacia Tree
  Neither daylight nor the darkness
  See how silently I wander.
  Not on mountain, nor in valley,
  Does an old acacia ponder.
  ...
• 5. A Twig Alighted
  A twig alighted on a fence and dozed;
  So do I sleep.
  The fruit fell and what have I to do with my trunk,
  What with my branch?
  ...

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