Death & Dying
From the "Divan"
Translated by Emma Lazarus (Poems, 1889) · From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, vol. II (1889)
Death & Dying
My thoughts impelled me to the resting-place
Where sleep my parents, many a friend and brother.
I asked them (no one heard and none replied):
"Do ye forsake me, too, oh father, mother?"
Then from the grave, without a tongue, these cried,
And showed my own place waiting by their side.
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Ezra, Moses ibn. “From the "Divan".” Translated by Emma Lazarus. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moses-ibn-ezra/3/.
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Ezra, Moses ibn. “From the "Divan".” Translated by Emma Lazarus. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moses-ibn-ezra/3/.
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