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צַפְרִירִים | Tsafririm (Morning Spirits), a poem by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1900)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ben Aronin and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

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alternate rhyming scheme, animistic spirits, numinous beings, romanticism, Jewish faeries, 19th century C.E., entering magical territory, Light, first person, modern hebrew poetry, mythopoetic, 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems

The poem “Tsafririm” (1900) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik with an English translation by Ben Aronin. . . .

גַּמָּדֵי לָיִל | Gnomes of the Night, a poem by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (ca. 1894)

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ben Aronin and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

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romanticism, where the wild things are, 19th century C.E., vilde ḥayye, שדים sheydim, whimsy, night, magical beings, modern hebrew poetry, entering magical territory, mythopoetic, evening spirits, 57th century A.M., animistic spirits, Jewish faeries, creatures of the night

The poem “Gamodei Layil” (Gnomes of the Night) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, ca. 1894. . . .