Tag: tears

  • To a little boy in a Jewish village

    Don’t cry little boy, wipe off your tears, it will soon be good / We will heal the wounds that drip with blood.

  • Dowry

    Work, girlies, work! / Work through day and night; / sew up blouses, little frocks, / then dress up to the nines!

  • To Sholem Aleykhem

    Great writer, our writer / bright eyed so deep the shine / On your mild and tender smile / there is a shadowed quiet cry.

  • What Does This Old Gray Jew Want From Me?

    What does this old gray Jew want from me / who comes to me to visit every night / and weighs me down with sadness and dark fears / with eyes black holes with tears