Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems in Book of Mercy b...
Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.
You are with me still. Even though I have been removed, and my place does not recognize me. Even though I have filled my heart with stones. And my beloved says, I will wait a little while behind this curtain- no, I have waited too long. You are with me still. Though I sorted away the tears of return in the forced light of victory, your rebuke still comforts me, you signify yourself among the dangers. Saying, use this fear to know me, fix this exile toward my return. Though I am upwept, it's your judgement parches me. Though my praises for you are under ban, it's the balance of your mercy. And you are with me still. Saying, Serch this out, it's you who have hidden yourself. Saying, Clear me in your troubled heart. Saying, I will come to you. Saying, I am here. Though I add membrane to membr... (查看原文)
It's all around me, the darkness. You are my only shield. Your name is my only light. What love I have, your law is the source, this dead love that remembers only its name, yet the name is enough to open itself like a mouth, to call down the dew, and drink. O dead name that through your mercy speaks to the living name, mercy harkening to the will that is bent toward it, the will whose strength is its pledge to you- O name of love, draw down the blessing of completion on the man whom you have cut in half to know you. (查看原文)
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"Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolation, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers...18100
"Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolation, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers the Name."(展开)
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"Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolation, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers...18100
"Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolation, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers the Name."(展开)
You are with me still. Even though I have been removed, and my place does not recognize me. Even though I have filled my heart with stones. And my beloved says, I will wait a little while behind this curtain- no, I have waited too long. You are with me still. Though I sorted away the tears of return in the forced light of victory, your rebuke still comforts me, you signify yourself among the da...
2017-02-04 15:41:23
You are with me still. Even though I have been removed, and my place does not recognize me. Even though I have filled my heart with stones. And my beloved says, I will wait a little while behind this curtain- no, I have waited too long. You are with me still. Though I sorted away the tears of return in the forced light of victory, your rebuke still comforts me, you signify yourself among the dangers. Saying, use this fear to know me, fix this exile toward my return. Though I am upwept, it's your judgement parches me. Though my praises for you are under ban, it's the balance of your mercy. And you are with me still. Saying, Serch this out, it's you who have hidden yourself. Saying, Clear me in your troubled heart. Saying, I will come to you. Saying, I am here. Though I add membrane to membrane against your light, and heap up cities on the husk of your rebuke, when the sun and the moon are shining in the other plan, and you advance me through the solitude by such a kind degree, and you create the world before my eyes, and the one who hides in self-disgrace cannot say Amen, O slow to anger, you are with me, you are with me still.引自 34&37&39&40
Psalm 37
It's all around me, the darkness. You are my only shield. Your name is my only light. What love I have, your law is the source, this dead love that remembers only its name, yet the name is enough to open itself like a mouth, to call down the dew, and drink. O dead name that through your mercy speaks to the living name, mercy harkening to the will that is bent toward it, the will whose strength is its pledge to you- O name of love, draw down the blessing of completion on the man whom you have cut in half to know you.引自 34&37&39&40
Psalm 39
From you alone to you alone, everlasting to everlasting, all that is not you is suffering, all that is not you is solitude rehearing the argument of loss. All that is not you is the man collapsing against his own forehead, and the forehead crushes him. All that is not you goes out and out, gathering the voices of revenge, harvesting lost triumphs far from the real and necessary defeat. It's to you I speak, solitude to unity, failure to mercy, and loss to the light. It is you I welcome here, coming through the coarse glory of my imagination, to this very night, to this very couch, to this very darkness. Grant me a forgiving sleep, and rest my enemy.引自 34&37&39&40
Psalm 40
Let me not pretend you are with me, when you are not with me. Let me close down, let the puppet fall among the stings, until, by your mercy, he rises as a man. Let him dare to call on you from the dust, when there is nothing but dust, and the coils of his defeat. Enter me again into the judgement, I who refuse to be judged. Enter me into the mercy, I who have forgotten mercy. Let me raise your kingdom to the beauty of your name. Why do you welcome me? asks the bitter heart. Why do you comfort me? asks the heart that is not broken enough. Let him lie among the strings until there is no hope for his daily strategy, until he cries, I am yours, I am your creature. Then the surface of the world is restored, then he can walk and build a will. Blessed are you whose blessing are discerned by those who know your name. The evil are seen clearly, and the good are beyond safety, and in the panic the whole world prays, Let us not be tested. Blessed are you who creates and destroys, who sits in judgement on numberless worlds, who judges the present with mercy.引自 34&37&39&40
Psalm 49
All my life is broken unto you, and all my glory soiled unto you. Do not let the spark of my should go out in the even sadness. Let me raise the brokenness to you, to the world where the breaking is for love. Do not let the words be mine, but change them into truth.引自 34&37&39&40
I HEARD MY SOUL SINGING behind a leaf, plucked the leaf, but then I heard it singing behind a veil. I tore the veil, but then I heard it singing behind a wall. I broke the wall, and I heard my soul singing against me. I built up the wall, mended the curtain, but I could not put back the leaf. I held it in my hand and I heard my soul singing mightily against me. This is what it’s like to study ...
2018-11-25 23:53:23
I HEARD MY SOUL SINGING behind a leaf, plucked the leaf, but then I heard it singing behind a veil. I tore the veil, but then I heard it singing behind a wall. I broke the wall, and I heard my soul singing against me. I built up the wall, mended the curtain, but I could not put back the leaf. I held it in my hand and I heard my soul singing mightily against me. This is what it’s like to study without a friend.
When I have not rage or sorrow, and you depart from me, then I am most afraid. When the belly is full, and the mind has its sayings, then I fear for my soul; I rush to you as a child at night breaks into its parents' room. Do not forget me in my satisfaction. When the heart grins at itself, the world is destroyed. And I am found alone with the husks and the shells. Then the dangerous moment com...
2017-02-04 15:29:30
When I have not rage or sorrow, and you depart from me, then I am most afraid. When the belly is full, and the mind has its sayings, then I fear for my soul; I rush to you as a child at night breaks into its parents' room. Do not forget me in my satisfaction. When the heart grins at itself, the world is destroyed. And I am found alone with the husks and the shells. Then the dangerous moment comes: I am too great to ask for help. I have other hopes. I legislate from the fortress of my disappointments, with a set jaw. Overthrow this even terror with a sweet remembrance: when I was with you, when my soul delighted you, when I was what you wanted. My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers the Name 引自 31
I heard my soul singing behind a leaf, plucked the leaf, but then I heard it singing behind a veil. I tore the veil, but then I heart it singing behind a wall. I broke the wall, and I heard my soul singing against me. I built up the wall, mended the curtain, but I could not put back the leaf. I felt it in my hand and I heard my soul singing mightily against me. This is what it's like to study w...
2017-02-04 12:42:33
I heard my soul singing behind a leaf, plucked the leaf, but then I heard it singing behind a veil. I tore the veil, but then I heart it singing behind a wall. I broke the wall, and I heard my soul singing against me. I built up the wall, mended the curtain, but I could not put back the leaf. I felt it in my hand and I heard my soul singing mightily against me. This is what it's like to study without a friend.
My prayer divided against itself, I was ashamed to have been deceived again, and bitterly, in the midst of loud defeat, I went out myself to gladden the heart, It was here that I found my will, a fragile thing, starving among ferns and women and snakes. I said to my will, 'Come, let us make ourselves ready to be touched by the angel of song', and suddenly I was once again on the bed of defeat in the middle of the night, begging for mercy, searching among the words.With the two shields of bitterness and hope, I rose up carefully, and I went out of the house to rescue the angle of song from the place where she had chained herself to her nakedness.引自 3&4
An angel, who had no intrinsic authority, said, 'You have sealed every gate but this one; therefore, here is a little light commensurate with your little courage.' His shame climbed up itself to find a height from which to spill. Then there was a sweeter saying in a stiller voice: 'I do not put my trust in man, nor do I place reliance on an angel,' Immediately the Torah sang to him, and touched...
2017-02-04 14:07:51
An angel, who had no intrinsic authority, said, 'You have sealed every gate but this one; therefore, here is a little light commensurate with your little courage.' His shame climbed up itself to find a height from which to spill. Then there was a sweeter saying in a stiller voice: 'I do not put my trust in man, nor do I place reliance on an angel,' Immediately the Torah sang to him, and touched his hair, and for a moment, as a gift to serve his oldest memory, he wore the weightless crown, the crown that lifts the weight away, he wore it till his heart could say, 'How precious is the heritage!'The crown that leaps up from the letters, a crown like dew that gives the grass to drink beads out of the darkness, the mother's kiss at the beginning of the war, the father's hand that lets the forehead shine, the crown that raises up no man a king above his company. 'Lead me deep into your Sabbath, let me sit beneath the mighty ones whom you have crowned forever, and let me study how they rest.'
You are the truth of loneliness, and only your name addresses it. Strengthen my loneliness that I may be healed in your name, which is beyond all consolations that are uttered on this earth. Only in your name can I stand in the rush of time, only when this loneliness is yours can I lift my sins toward your mercy引自 5&9
You led me to this field where I can dance with a broken knee. You led me safely to this night, you gave me a crown of darkness and light, and tears to greet my enemy....... this night, this mercy has no boundaries. The wound widens every heart, the general exile thickens, the whole world becomes the memory of your absence. How long will you hunt us with sorrow? How long will they rage, the fir...
2017-02-04 14:28:27
You led me to this field where I can dance with a broken knee. You led me safely to this night, you gave me a crown of darkness and light, and tears to greet my enemy....... this night, this mercy has no boundaries.
The wound widens every heart, the general exile thickens, the whole world becomes the memory of your absence. How long will you hunt us with sorrow? How long will they rage, the fires of refinement? Blood drinking blood, wound swallowing wound, sorrow torturing sorrow, cruelty rehearsing itself under the measureless night of your patience When will the work of truth begin, to verify your promise? Now that all men hear each other, let your name be established in hell, and count us back to the safety of your loa, father of mercy,bride of the captured earth. Speak to your child of his healing, in this place where we are for a moment.引自 10&24
I HEARD MY SOUL SINGING behind a leaf, plucked the leaf, but then I heard it singing behind a veil. I tore the veil, but then I heard it singing behind a wall. I broke the wall, and I heard my soul singing against me. I built up the wall, mended the curtain, but I could not put back the leaf. I held it in my hand and I heard my soul singing mightily against me. This is what it’s like to study ...
2018-11-25 23:53:23
I HEARD MY SOUL SINGING behind a leaf, plucked the leaf, but then I heard it singing behind a veil. I tore the veil, but then I heard it singing behind a wall. I broke the wall, and I heard my soul singing against me. I built up the wall, mended the curtain, but I could not put back the leaf. I held it in my hand and I heard my soul singing mightily against me. This is what it’s like to study without a friend.
You are with me still. Even though I have been removed, and my place does not recognize me. Even though I have filled my heart with stones. And my beloved says, I will wait a little while behind this curtain- no, I have waited too long. You are with me still. Though I sorted away the tears of return in the forced light of victory, your rebuke still comforts me, you signify yourself among the da...
2017-02-04 15:41:23
You are with me still. Even though I have been removed, and my place does not recognize me. Even though I have filled my heart with stones. And my beloved says, I will wait a little while behind this curtain- no, I have waited too long. You are with me still. Though I sorted away the tears of return in the forced light of victory, your rebuke still comforts me, you signify yourself among the dangers. Saying, use this fear to know me, fix this exile toward my return. Though I am upwept, it's your judgement parches me. Though my praises for you are under ban, it's the balance of your mercy. And you are with me still. Saying, Serch this out, it's you who have hidden yourself. Saying, Clear me in your troubled heart. Saying, I will come to you. Saying, I am here. Though I add membrane to membrane against your light, and heap up cities on the husk of your rebuke, when the sun and the moon are shining in the other plan, and you advance me through the solitude by such a kind degree, and you create the world before my eyes, and the one who hides in self-disgrace cannot say Amen, O slow to anger, you are with me, you are with me still.引自 34&37&39&40
Psalm 37
It's all around me, the darkness. You are my only shield. Your name is my only light. What love I have, your law is the source, this dead love that remembers only its name, yet the name is enough to open itself like a mouth, to call down the dew, and drink. O dead name that through your mercy speaks to the living name, mercy harkening to the will that is bent toward it, the will whose strength is its pledge to you- O name of love, draw down the blessing of completion on the man whom you have cut in half to know you.引自 34&37&39&40
Psalm 39
From you alone to you alone, everlasting to everlasting, all that is not you is suffering, all that is not you is solitude rehearing the argument of loss. All that is not you is the man collapsing against his own forehead, and the forehead crushes him. All that is not you goes out and out, gathering the voices of revenge, harvesting lost triumphs far from the real and necessary defeat. It's to you I speak, solitude to unity, failure to mercy, and loss to the light. It is you I welcome here, coming through the coarse glory of my imagination, to this very night, to this very couch, to this very darkness. Grant me a forgiving sleep, and rest my enemy.引自 34&37&39&40
Psalm 40
Let me not pretend you are with me, when you are not with me. Let me close down, let the puppet fall among the stings, until, by your mercy, he rises as a man. Let him dare to call on you from the dust, when there is nothing but dust, and the coils of his defeat. Enter me again into the judgement, I who refuse to be judged. Enter me into the mercy, I who have forgotten mercy. Let me raise your kingdom to the beauty of your name. Why do you welcome me? asks the bitter heart. Why do you comfort me? asks the heart that is not broken enough. Let him lie among the strings until there is no hope for his daily strategy, until he cries, I am yours, I am your creature. Then the surface of the world is restored, then he can walk and build a will. Blessed are you whose blessing are discerned by those who know your name. The evil are seen clearly, and the good are beyond safety, and in the panic the whole world prays, Let us not be tested. Blessed are you who creates and destroys, who sits in judgement on numberless worlds, who judges the present with mercy.引自 34&37&39&40
Psalm 49
All my life is broken unto you, and all my glory soiled unto you. Do not let the spark of my should go out in the even sadness. Let me raise the brokenness to you, to the world where the breaking is for love. Do not let the words be mine, but change them into truth.引自 34&37&39&40
When I have not rage or sorrow, and you depart from me, then I am most afraid. When the belly is full, and the mind has its sayings, then I fear for my soul; I rush to you as a child at night breaks into its parents' room. Do not forget me in my satisfaction. When the heart grins at itself, the world is destroyed. And I am found alone with the husks and the shells. Then the dangerous moment com...
2017-02-04 15:29:30
When I have not rage or sorrow, and you depart from me, then I am most afraid. When the belly is full, and the mind has its sayings, then I fear for my soul; I rush to you as a child at night breaks into its parents' room. Do not forget me in my satisfaction. When the heart grins at itself, the world is destroyed. And I am found alone with the husks and the shells. Then the dangerous moment comes: I am too great to ask for help. I have other hopes. I legislate from the fortress of my disappointments, with a set jaw. Overthrow this even terror with a sweet remembrance: when I was with you, when my soul delighted you, when I was what you wanted. My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers the Name 引自 31
0 有用 🫀Psyche 2017-02-04 16:49:20
Psalm and prayers of Cohen."Why do you welcome me? asks the bitter heart. Why do you comfort me? asks the heart that is not broken enough."
0 有用 杜鹏 2017-06-26 13:10:42
矫情的有点腻了
0 有用 Yennefer 2020-07-28 01:14:46
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0 有用 金铠甲虫 2018-12-30 19:47:06
18100 "Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolation, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers... 18100 "Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolation, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers the Name." (展开)
0 有用 Yennefer 2020-07-28 01:14:46
震撼
0 有用 金铠甲虫 2018-12-30 19:47:06
18100 "Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolation, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers... 18100 "Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolation, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, see how the night has no terror for one who remembers the Name." (展开)
0 有用 杜鹏 2017-06-26 13:10:42
矫情的有点腻了
0 有用 🫀Psyche 2017-02-04 16:49:20
Psalm and prayers of Cohen."Why do you welcome me? asks the bitter heart. Why do you comfort me? asks the heart that is not broken enough."