In The Night. (translations From The Hebrew Poets Of Medaeval Spain.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAB CCCB DDDB EEEB FFGB HHHB BBBB CCCB IJJB DDDB HHHB KLLB BBBB BBBB MLLB NNNB OPPB BBBB B| Unto the house of prayer my spirit yearns | A |
| Unto the sources of her being turns | A |
| To where the sacred light of heaven burns | A |
| She struggles thitherward by day and night | B |
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| The splendor of God's glory blinds her eyes | C |
| Up without wings she soareth to the skies | C |
| With silent aspiration seeks to rise | C |
| In dusky evening and in darksome night | B |
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| To her the wonders of God's works appear | D |
| She longs with fervor Him to draw anear | D |
| The tidings of His glory reach her ear | D |
| From morn to even and from night to night | B |
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| The banner of thy grace did o'er me rest | E |
| Yet was thy worship banished from my breast | E |
| Almighty thou didst seek me out and test | E |
| To try and to instruct me in the night | B |
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| I dare not idly on my pillow lie | F |
| With winged feet to the shrine I fain would fly | F |
| When chained by leaden slumbers heavily | G |
| Men rest in imaged shadows dreams of night | B |
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| Infatuate I trifled youth away | H |
| In nothingness dreamed through my manhood's day | H |
| Therefore my streaming tears I may not stay | H |
| They are my meat and drink by day and night | B |
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| In flesh imprisoned is the son of light | B |
| This life is but a bridge when seen aright | B |
| Rise in the silent hour and pray with might | B |
| Awake and call upon thy God by night | B |
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| Hasten to cleanse thyself of sin arise | C |
| Follow Truth's path that leads unto the skies | C |
| As swift as yesterday existence flies | C |
| Brief even as a watch within the night | B |
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| Man enters life for trouble all he has | I |
| And all that he beholds is pain alas | J |
| Like to a flower does he bloom and pass | J |
| He fadeth like a vision of the night | B |
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| The surging floods of life around him roar | D |
| Death feeds upon him pity is no more | D |
| To others all his riches he gives o'er | D |
| And dieth in the middle hour of night | B |
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| Crushed by the burden of my sins I pray | H |
| Oh wherefore shunned I not the evil way | H |
| Deep are my sighs I weep the livelong day | H |
| And wet my couch with tears night after night | B |
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| My spirit stirs my streaming tears still run | K |
| Like to the wild birds' notes my sorrows' tone | L |
| In the hushed silence loud resounds my groan | L |
| My soul arises moaning in the night | B |
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| Within her narrow cell oppressed with dread | B |
| Bare of adornment and with grief bowed head | B |
| Lamenting many a tear her sad eyes shed | B |
| She weeps with anguish in the gloomy night | B |
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| For tears my burden seem to lighten best | B |
| Could I but weep my heart's blood I might rest | B |
| My spirit bows with mighty grief oppressed | B |
| I utter forth my prayer within the night | B |
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| Youth's charm has like a fleeting shadow gone | M |
| With eagle wings the hours of life have flown | L |
| Alas the time when pleasure I have known | L |
| I may not now recall by day or night | B |
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| The haughty scorn pursues me of my foe | N |
| Evil his thought yet soft his speech and low | N |
| Forget it not but bear his purpose so | N |
| Forever in thy mind by day and night | B |
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| Observe a pious fast be whole again | O |
| Hasten to purge thy heart of every stain | P |
| No more from prayer and penitence refrain | P |
| But turn unto thy God by day and night | B |
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| HE SPEAKS My son yea I will send thee aid | B |
| Bend thou thy steps to me be not afraid | B |
| No nearer friend than I am hast thou made | B |
| Possess thy soul in patience one more night | B |
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| Moses Ben Esra About | B |
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