Abed Azrié

Tell me, won't you join with me And turn your back on absurdity? Out of injustice's reach, a place With neither master nor servant is preferable to a ...

I want my country to know of the one who has seen all things.
He who was wise and knew of everything,
He who saw secret things and disclosed what was ...

Shamash, moreover, endowed him with fairness,
Adad, with courage.
In him was two thirds a god one third a man.
The men in Uruk constantly stood in awe...

Together they went down into the forest
and they came to the green mountain.
There, they stood still and gazed at the forest.
They saw the height of t...

“If I take you in marriage, what gifts can I give in return?
What ointments and clothing for your body?
I would gladly give you bread and all sorts of...

Then they washed their hands in the Euphrates, they embraced each other and went away. They drove through the streets of Uruk where the inhabitants we...

The courtesan tore her dress in two; with the one half she clothed him and with the other herself. Taking his hand into hers, as a child’s, she led hi...

They embraced each other and their friendship was sealed. The eyes of Enkidu were full of tears. He left sad at heart, weary, and he tortured himself....

When Ishtar heard this, she fell into a bitter rage. She went up to Heaven to see her father Anu. Ishtar besought her father:
“ My father, give me the...

Gilgamesh asked Siduri* to reveal to him the means to know one’s way to Uta-napishtim, the Far-away. Siduri told him to go and see Urshanabi - the fer...

Uta-Napishtim told him: “why is there so much anguish inside you, you who are made of the flesh of gods?
There is no permanence.
Do we build a house t...

I want my country to know of the one who has seen all things.
He who was wise and knew of everything,
He who saw secret things and disclosed what was ...

The camel :
“ Donkey, my friends
Where are the children?
There is no one left in the forest
But, me and you!”

The donkey :
“the children have migrate...

Enkidu thrust himself at Gilgamesh and they fought in the square.

He came up to Gilgamesh and they met.

Enkidu put out his foot to block the door to...

Gilgamesh asks Enkidu to come with him to fight against Humbaba, the giant, guard of the cedar wood, and to fell the cedar trees. Enkidu states that t...

Gilgamesh went on his way to the sun through the mountains. Deep was the darkness, he could see neither in front of him, nor behind him. When he had w...

Tell me, won't you join with me And turn your back on absurdity? Out of injustice's reach, a place With neither master nor servant is preferable to a ...

Gazelle, insufficient satisfaction


To remain your slave.

Would, one day, O, my crescent moon,

that, fortunate Fortune,

I could feast on you.



W...

The courtesan tore her dress in two; with the one half she clothed him and with the other herself. Taking his hand into hers, as a child’s, she led hi...

Together they went down into the forest

and they came to the green mountain.

There, they stood still and gazed at the forest.

They saw the height o...

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Her eyes give rise to mellowness, 
Gardens in her chiseled cheek,
Coral orifice those parted lips,
Like Basil the body, from out of which 
And our con...

O, you, source of ceaseless sorrows, 
Makes its plaint of pain to you,

A plaint that comes to nought. 
Munificence, lady, its life, its death, 
Rests...

You, plenitude of lunar light.

You, stately, elemental reed. 
Unawareness unimaginable,

Faced with beauty of this kind.

Of you they say, "Noonday s...

What power forged that tapered 
waist With beauties fashioned necklace-like, 
Stately, gracile reed and crescent-moon, 
Fortunate fortune's solar beam...

Gazelle, insufficient satisfaction

To remain your slave. 
Would, one day, O, my crescent moon, 
that, fortunate Fortune,
I could feast on you.

While...

The longing within me is of a different kind, Different from the one that swells
The breast of time.
Things come up to this longing,
As if it were the...

A bridge of tears has been my companion Forever and ever
Welling beneath my eyelids.
“Oh winds, oh childhood! Oh bridges of tears Broken behind eyelid...

They have no place
They warm the earth’s body
Draw the keys to its secrets in the sky.
They have established neither bond nor home For their legends,
...

Oh close of night, be my guest, Drink your fill, stay longer,
Weave you magic across my bed.
Be my guest so I can say:
“What does love say to a man in...