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The Apple

Yehudah HaLevi 1075 (Spain) – 1141 (Holy Land)

You have enslaved me with your lovely body;
You have put me in a kind of prison.
Since the day we parted,
I have found nothing that is like your beauty.
So I comfort myself with a ripe apple—
Its fragrance reminds me of the myrrh of your breath,
Its shape of your breasts, its color
Of the color that used to rise to your cheeks.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 08, 2023

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Scheme ABCADEFG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 332
Words 68
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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Yehudah HaLevi

Judah Halevi was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in the Holy Land in 1141, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. more…

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