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Isaac Rosenberg


self portrait, oil on board (1915)


 The Jew

Moses, from whose loins I sprung, 
Lit by a lamp in his blood 
Ten immutable rules, a moon 
For mutable lampless men. 

The blonde, the bronze, the ruddy, 
With the same heaving blood, 
Keep tide to the moon of Moses. 
Then why do they sneer at me?

John Ashbery

  The New Spirit (excerpt) I thought that if I could put it all down, that would be one way. And next the thought came to me that to leave a...