By Bev Yockelson
On this night
I remember Nachshon
who was not Moses who
walked into the Red Sea
and called for God
to…
I remember Nachshon
who was not Moses who
walked into the Red Sea
and called for God
to…
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- By Solomon Ibn GabirolSend your spirit
to revive our corpses,
and ripple the longed-for
land again.
The crops come from you… - By Marge PiercyThe courage to let go of the door, the handle.
The courage to shed the familiar walls whose very
stains… - By Marge PiercyIn life you had a temper.
Your sarcasm was a whetted knife.
Sometimes you shuddered with fear
but you… - By Marge PiercyThe songs we join in
are beeswax candles
burning with no smoke
a clean fire licking at the evening
our… - By Israel ZangwillProsaic miles of streets stretch all round,
Astir with restless, hurried life and spanned
By arches that… - By Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHow strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves,
Close by the street of this fair seaport town,… - By Emma Lazarus
Here, where the noises of the busy town,
The ocean's plunge and roar can enter not,
We stand and gaze…