The night when the fair maiden revealed the likeness of her form to me,
The warmth of her cheeks, the veil of her hair,
Golden like a topaz, covering
A brow of smoothest crystal-
She was like the sun making red in her rising
The clouds of dawn with the flame of her light.
Translated by Nina Salaman
The Fair Maiden
Yehudah Halevi
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Poem topics: hair, light, night, red, sun, flame, golden, dawn, crystal, warmth, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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