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Jewish
11th Century

About Samuel ha-Nagid

Timeline (993 - 1056)

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English version by
Bernard Lewis

Original Language
Hebrew
Red in aspect, sweet in taste

Themes
  Honey
  Smile
  Wine
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems, Translated by Bernard Lewis

Red in aspect, sweet in taste
poured in Spain, famed in India
faint in the cup, but raised to the head
wine holds sway over heads that bow.
The mourner mingling blood and tears
finds his sorrows melted by the blood of the grape,
friends passing the cup from hand to hand
seem like gamblers dicing for a precious stone.

 

 

-- from Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems, Translated by Bernard Lewis

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