Selected poems of Shmuel HaNagid /

The first major poet of the Hebrew literary renaissance of Moslem Spain, Shmuel Ben Yosef Ha-Levi HaNagid (993-1056 C.E.) was also the prime minister of the Moslem state of Granada, battlefield commander of the non-Jewish Granada army, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish wo...

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Main Author: Samuel, ha-Nagid, 993-1056 (Author)
Other Authors: Cole, Peter, 1957- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1996]
Series:Lockert library of poetry in translation.
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Table of Contents:
  • An Andalusian Chronology
  • On Fleeing His City
  • The Miracle at Sea
  • A Curse
  • The Apple
  • Jasmine
  • The Gazelle
  • The Fawn
  • Where's That Coy Gazelle
  • In Fact I Love That Fawn
  • I'll Show You a Fawn
  • They Stole My Sleep
  • His Brother's Illness
  • On the Death of Isaac, His Brother
  • The Friends
  • The House of Prayer
  • The Critique
  • The Pain
  • What Are These
  • A Day of Distress
  • The Victory Over Seville
  • The Dream
  • The War with Yadir
  • On Lifting the Siege
  • Your Manuscript Shines
  • To Yehosef, His Son
  • Pass of Sand
  • Among My Friends
  • Rise Early
  • Your Years Are Sleep
  • Sad Friend
  • How I Helped the Wise
  • Rouge in Appearance
  • Take the Crystal
  • Truth Is Hard
  • When the Lord Is with You
  • One Who Works and Buys Himself Books
  • How Could You Loathe
  • Forgive the Man Who Sinned Against You
  • If You're Finding the Good at Fault
  • Delay Your Speech
  • I'd Suck Bitter Poison from the Viper's Mouth.