Famous Midrash Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Midrash poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous midrash poems. These examples illustrate what a famous midrash poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...l, let them laugh.
You can laugh longer when you're dead.
What? Are you still too blind to see?
Have you forgot your Midrash!... They were right,
The little goyim, with their angry stones.
You should be buried in the desert out of sight
And not a dog should howl miscarried moans
Over your foul bones....
Have you forgotten what is promised us,
Because of stinking days and rotting nights?
Eternal feasting, drinking, blazing lights
With endless leisure, periods of pla...Read more of this...
by
Untermeyer, Louis
...swallow does with unerring grace
and foreknowledge because all of this
was prophesied in the final, unread book
of the Midrash and because I have to
grow up and because it pleases me....Read more of this...
by
Levine, Philip
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