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Prayers as poems —⟶ tag: Prayers as poems Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? “A Wish” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), pp. 66-68. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Future Happiness” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), p. 35-39. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, עולם הבא Olam Haba, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Thought: A Vision” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), p. 57-64. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angels, English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Angels’ Heads” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), p. 56-58. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angels, English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): “Heaven” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in her bound collections of poetry, Poems (1853), pp. 72-76. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems Contributor(s): The famous poem by Walt Whitman in its original English with its Hebrew translation. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., first person, invitation, Prayers as poems, prayers for the road, שפע shefa, Swedenborgian Contributor(s): “Remember” by Emma Lazarus was written 20 January 1866 and first published in her chapbook, Poems and Translations (1866). “The City of Light” is a poem written by Felix Adler. The earliest publication I could find for it dates to 1882, in Unity: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion vol. 8, no. 12 (16 Feb. 1882), p. 477. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, Ethical Humanism, ירושלם Jerusalem, mortality, משיח Moshiaḥ, Paris Commune, Prayers as poems, Siege of Paris (1870–1871), universalist, we are the music makers Contributor(s): A poem, inspired by psalms, about a dangerous ocean storm or else the violent nature calmed during one of the nights and days of creation. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, ocean, Prayers as poems, travel by water Contributor(s): This is the poem, “The New Colossus” (1883) by Emma Lazarus. Lazarus famously penned her sonnet in response to the waves of Russian-Jewish refugees seeking refuge in the Unites States of America as a result of murderous Russian pogroms following the assassination of Tsar Alexander Ⅱ in 1881. At a time when she was also translating classical Jewish poetry, her identification and revisioning of the Statue of Liberty as “the Mother of Exiles,” points to the familiar rabbinic Jewish identification of the Shekhinah (the Divine Presence, in its feminine aspect) with the light of the Jewish people in their Diaspora. Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom ha-Ém (30 Shəvat), 🇺🇸 Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May), 🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th), 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November) Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, שכינה Shekhinah, statues of liberty, welcome the stranger Contributor(s): “The Tabernacle” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in The Latter-Day Saints’ Millennial Star vol. 56, p. 688. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, המשכן the Mishkan, Trees Contributor(s): Alice Lucas’s Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894) is a collection of twenty-five adapted English translations, mainly of piyyutim, all intended “for devotion,” i.e., prayer. The collection was expanded upon in a follow-up publication of Lucas, The Jewish Year (1898). Before HaTikvah was chosen, Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “People’s Blessing” (בִּרְכַּת עָם, also known by its incipit תֶחֱזַֽקְנָה Teḥezaqnah) was once considered for the State of Israel’s national anthem. Bialik was 21 years old when he composed the work in 1894. It later was chosen as the anthem of the Labor Zionist movement. We hereby present the first ever complete English translation of this poem. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, national anthems, physical labor, Prayers as poems, תחזקנה Teḥezaqnah Contributor(s): Alice Lucas’s The Jewish Year: A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays throughout the Year (1898) is a collection of 75 adapted English translations of piyyutim (including 12 original works by Lucas) intended “for devotion,” i.e., prayer. The collection expanded on an earlier publication of Lucas, Songs of Zion (1894). This work contains all but three of the works published in Songs of Zion. This is the poem “פעלד־מעסטען” by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) written before 1898. We have transcribed the poem as it was published in Rosenfeld’s collection of poems Gezamelṭe lieder (1906) pp. 135-136. The poem was romanized and translated into English by Leo Wiener and published under the title, “The Measuring of the Graves” in Songs from the Ghetto (1898), pp. 46-49. A rhyming translation by Rose Pastor Stokes & Helena Frank under the title, “Measuring of the Graves” was published in Songs of Labor and Other Poems (1914), pp. 70-71. If you know the date of the earliest publication of this prayer, please leave a comment or contact us. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., cemetery prayers, פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten, Prayers as poems, rhyming translation, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): This is the poem “קידוש לבנה” by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) written sometime before 1898. We have transcribed the poem as it was published in Rosenfeld’s collection of poems Gezamelṭe lieder (1906) pp. 141-143. The poem was romanized and translated into English by Leo Wiener and published under the title, “Kidesch⸗Lewone (The Moon-Prayer)” in Songs from the Ghetto (1898), pp. 48-53. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This is the poem “דיא זרשטע טבילה” by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) written sometime before 1898. We have transcribed the poem as it was published in Rosenfeld’s collection of poems Gezamelṭe lieder (1906) pp. 167-168. The poem was romanized and translated into English by Leo Wiener and published under the title, “Die erste Twile (The First Bath of Ablution)” in Songs from the Ghetto (1898), pp. 52-55. A rhyming translation by Rose Pastor Stokes & Helena Frank under the title, “The First Bath of Ablution” was published in Songs of Labor and Other Poems (1914), pp. 72-73. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., מקווה miqveh, Prayers as poems, עין הרע predatory gaze (ill will/evil eye), rhyming translation, שמירת הגוף shmirat haguf, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): “Abraham’s Faith” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—Ⅲ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Lekh Lekha) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 6. An original poem composed by Alice Julia Lucas and selected for the 19th Shabbat (i.e., Parashat Terumah) in the cycle of annual readings of the Torah portion in her anthology of poetry and translated piyyutim, The Jewish Year (1898), pp. 42-43. “A Stranger and a Sojourner Am I” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—Ⅴ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat Ḥayyei Sarah) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 10. | ||
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