Hebrew Poetry

Psalms speak to us as they express an array of human emotions — joy, fear, gratitude, rage, hope, and more. Yet, much of this is lost in most translations because: Few English speakers understand or can even read the original Hebrew. Nuances and poetry in the Hebrew words of Psalms are difficult to translate. Psalms often refer to people, places, events, and practices unknown to us today. The translator's word choice sometimes infers meanings not intended in the Hebrew.So, we lose much of the emotion that tugs at the heart every bit as much as it calls to the intellect. Much of Psalms is ...

This volume of Lord Byron’s poetry contains four sets of his poems, starting with his famous book of poetry, Hebrew Melodies, and continuing with the Poems of the Separation, poetry he wrote in the period 1816-1823, his “Jeux d’Esprit”, and a group of poems written in homage to the great poets of Italy. Hebrew Melodies is a collection of lyrics Byron wrote to be set to music, as indeed they were, by a composer named Isaac Nathan.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 141 Anyone who has been in the habit of attending monastic Offices, or their equivalents, will be aware of the central place of the psalter in Christian worship. Sister Benedicta sheds a revealing light on the scholarship and piety of the Venerable Bede, showing how with the Abbreviated Psalter (which is included in her text) he made his own innovative contribution to the devotional use of the psalms. Bede knew the psalms as a religious, bound to the daily, weekly and seasonal observance of the liturgical year; as a scholar and historian of European renown; and as a ...

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A book of divine poems. A thank you to Prem Rawat for the gift of self-knowledge. Softly read by the poet with harp music, the gentle wisdom in these words will take you into deep meditation to touch and comfort your soul.