My heart is in the east, and I in the uttermost west.
How can I find savor in food? How shall it be sweet to me?
How shall I render my vows and my bonds, while yet
Zion lieth beneath the fetter of Edom, and I in Arab chains?
A light thing would it seem to me
to leave all the good things of Spain -
Seeing how precious in mine eyes
to behold the dust of the desolate sanctuary.

(C) Yehudah Halevi
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Yehudah HaLevi

• Song
• The Fair Maiden
• The Physician-s Prayer
• He Comes
• Mount Avarim
• The Grey Hair
• The Mirror
• To The Rivals
• Do These Tears Know?
• The Apple
• God, Whom Shall I Compare To Thee?
• Time-servers
• O My Lord, Your Dwelling Places Are Lovely
• My Heart Is In The East
• A Love Song
• To Israel, In Exile
• When My Soul Longed - The Beginning Of His Journey
• Admonition
• Hymn For Atonement Day