Selected Poems (Engelse vertaling)

48 JEHUDAH HALEVI

Ps. 66,12. But now I come into the fire of longing for
thee and the torrents of my weeping!
Alas, my heart! between my tears and thy
glowing coals!

Yea, between the bitter and the sweet standeth

my heart—
The gall of parting, and the honey of thy
kisses.

Ex. 39.3. After thy words have beaten out my heart into
thin plates,
Thine hands have cut it into shreds.

Ezek.1,26.28. It is the likeness of rubies over pearls

What time I behold thy lips over thy teeth.

The sun is on thy face and thou spreadest

out the night
Over his radiance with the clouds of thy locks.

Ezek. 16,13. Fine silk and broidered work are the covering

Gen. 20,16. of thy body,

But grace and beauty are the covering of
thine eyes.

The adornment of maidens is the work of
human hands,

18a. 2.16. But thou—majesty with sweetness are thine
adornment.

job 9,9. Sun and moon, the Plough and the Pleiads
are zealous
To be brothers and sisters of thine;