Modern Hebrew poem itself Book

	Note to the New and Updated Edition	13
	To the Reader	15
	Upon My Return	27
	From the Winter Songs	30
	Alone	33
	At Twilight	36
	A Twig Fell	38
	On the Slaughter	40
	My Astarte	45
	To the Sun: 7, 8	48
	Eagle: Eagle Over Your Mountains	52
	Three Asses	54
	Midnight	56
	The Lonely Say	58
	Happy Are They Who Sow	60
	Not an Enclosed Garden	62
	Confession	64
	With My God the Blacksmith	68
	On a Night of Rain in Jerusalem	70
	Under the Tooth of Their Plough	72
	Martyrs of Silence	76
	Amputation of the Wing	78
	To Tarshish	79
	Toil	82
	Three Old Women	84
	End of Adar	86
	Mr. X Speaks about His Neighborhood	89
	A Cubit and a Half	92
	Cranes from the Threshold	94
	In Purple	97
	The Soul of	101
	Dream	105
	Sands	109
	A Summer Night	111
	The Night	114
	The Foundling	117
	The Mole	120
	After Twenty Years	125
	Hamsin of Nisan	128
	The Tree Sings to the River	130
	The Girl Sings to the River	132
	From My Mother's Home	133
	Tel Aviv 1935	135
	Lakes	137
	Isaac	142
	Moses	144
	In the Dark	146
	Joshua's Face	148
	If There Were a Hundred Hats	151
	Joy	152
	Opening	154
	Sounds from Nearby	156
	Spring in the World	158
	Odysseus	160
	[It Seems to Me]	162
	His Mother	164
	Of Three or Four in a Room	166
	The Two of Us Together ...	168
	Half of the People in the World	170
	[My Father]	172
	To the Pomergranate	174
	She Is Asleep	176
	Awakening	178
	The Eagle	180
	The Log Book	184
	[I Saw]	186
	From Year to Year It	188
	Failure	190
	Clockwork Doll	192
	With Walter and Amati	198
	Chapters in Time - Mine and His	201
	Tightly I Hold on to the Butt of a Dream	204
	My Soul Wanders Round	206
	Jerusalem Is a Port City	209
	The Fourth Resurrection	211
	Landscapes	213
	Houses	219
	Written in Pencil in the Sealed Boxcar	221
	The Portrait	224
	Do Not Consider This to Be a Sin	226
	I Hear Something Falling	228
	Pride	230
	He Shall Surely Come	233
	Every Rose	238
	When I Said the Blessing	241
	A Day	243
	Memory	245
	Nonconformism	248
	The Power of the Will	251
	Were It Not	253
	Zayish	255
	I Only Want to Tell You	260
	Instructions for a Lullaby	263
	March	265
	A Children's Song	267
	Morning Time	270
	Absalom	273
	Ho Sea, Skies	276
	Yonatan	279
	The Shell of My Body	281
	In a Village Whose Name I Do Not Even Know	283
	My Face in the Puddle	286
	Spider Baal	288
	Handcuffs. A Street Song	290
	Window of My House	293
	Miracle	295
	Deserter	298
App. A	How to Read the Phonetic Transcriptions of the Poems	303
App. B	An Outline History of Modern Hebrew Poetry 1880-1965	309
App. C	Hebrew Poetry 1965-1988	323
App. D	Modern Hebrew Poetry 1960-1990	337
App. E	A Note on Hebrew Prosody	353