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יְיָ מָה אָדָם | Hashem, mah adam (“Almighty! what is man”) — a piyyuṭ for atonement by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (rhymed translation by Emma Lazarus)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Emma Lazarus, Shlomo ibn Gabirol

Emma Lazarus’s translation, simply referred to as “Hymn” — derived from the piyyut יְיָ מָה אָדָם by Shlomo ibn Gabirol — was first published in her anthology, Songs of a Semite: The dance to death and other poems (1882), pages 68-70.

שַׁחַר אֲבַקֶּשְׁךָ צוּרִי וּמִשְׂגַּבִּי | Shaḥar Avaqeshkha Tsuri u-Misgabi (Unto thy Rock, my soul, uplift thy gaze) — a piyyut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (rhyming English adaptation by Alice Lucas, 1898)

Contributed by: the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol

“Prayer” for Sabbath—ⅩⅬⅢ is Alice Lucas’s English verse adaptation of the piyyut “Shaḥar Avaqeshkha Tsuri u-Misgabi” by Shlomo ibn Gabirol, published in her The Jewish Year: A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays throughout the Year (1898), page 97.

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