Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
“Servant of God” is an adapted English rhmying translation by Alice Montefiore Lucas of a piyyut by Yehudah haLevi, first published in the former’s first collection of translations Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894), pp. 9-12.
Contributed by: the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Emma Lazarus, Mosheh ben Yaaqov ibn Ezra
Emma Lazarus’s translation, “In the Night” — derived from the piyyut נַפְשִׁי אִוִּיתִיךָ בַּלַּיְלָה by Moses ibn Ezra — was first published in her anthology, Songs of a Semite: The dance to death and other poems (1882), pages 78-80.
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.
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.

