Cups without wine are low things
Like a pot thrown to the ground,
But brimming with the juice, they shine
Like body and soul.

Translated by Robert Mezey

(C) Yehudah Halevi
04/04/2017


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