Dedicated to a Friend. Oh Lord Eternal, our God and the God of our Forefathers, our King, who Sustaineth the Land in justice; who...

A Translation from the Midrash "As the Rabbi lay dying, the people of Sepphoris (-his hometown) proclaimed: "He who shall say 'the Master...

"His father and mother said to him, “Is there no one among the daughters of your own kinsmen and among all our people, that you must go...

A Tale of the Second Temple "Rabbi Tryphon replied: 'May I see my sons die, if I didn't see Simon, my mother's brother, who was lame in...

I This thorny throne Who tears all purple, Whose red hot Iron Crown, hath burnt All princely brows This vast Earth, By Seas, Mounts,...

"Cephalus: "... Not it may be to every man but to the good man. Not to cheat any man even unintentionally or play him false, not...

Here lays master Heraclius, Here he lays in a soldier’s bed, Awake he lays, master Heraclius, Sleep as mistress is banished. Of a strange...

A Belated Thanksgiving Prayer Before the first prayer was carried, From a Pilgrim's cracking lips, Before the first man was indentured To...

The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Dedicated to an Old Mentor. A ‘Neath a mighty dome of gold, Upon pillars doth it rest, The world hath seen...

The horn of France bellows unto heaven, On the broad, Parisian road, Is Carloman’s land, This is pleasure Of the Frankish folk: Two...

I met him on the ramparts On the walls of sacred Salem And we ate of the flesh of the hollies Our feet dangling Between rite and...

The purple-wearing slave Descended, his freeborn Servants clearing the way. Unto the sepulcher He came, of ancient kings, And there he...

Come here, Ye insolent pups Who with the roundhead Grayhounds run, I'll tell you of the Master, And of His service, While we were young....

For you, our Republic, We carried arms, Brother his brother slew As he met him by chance. We parted home and hearth And bid farwell To...

"Hail Caesar, and live another day" So we thought, in anger and dismay. "Hail Caesar, and live another day" As we had left Cato's body,...

Lo! A ship! A ship! On the waters, a ship! In her bilge, are stowed, Rumors of the fleet, With her planks decrepit, And her sails all...