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! Â If there is
a God in you, a pathway through
you to this God - which I have not
discovered - then pray for me! Â 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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Annemarie geller: Do you know about an English translation of Bialik poem
“ on the threshold of the school”
