בַּת שִׁיר, בַּת הַשִּׁיר

ביטוי (אנגלית)

Daughter of Song, Daughter of the Song/ Muse/ songbird

הגדרה (אנגלית)

A poetic epithet for the songbird. By metaphorical extension: inspiration. Muse.

(And the gates in the market were closed at the low sound of the mill, and at the sound of the bird shall arise and bow all daughters of song - Ecclesiastes 12:4; and likewise: The daughters of my song sang, defiling the time of the princes - Yosef Ibn Sheshet, "Her Cry is Bitter to My Heart"; and likewise: And the eyes of the brides will be filled with weeping - then shall rise like light dipped in dew my daughter of song - H.N. Bialik, "Night Thoughts"; and likewise: Daughter of my bitter song, cease, still full are the meditations of loves - Shaul Tchernichovsky, "Eyes full of silence"; and likewise: Perhaps one day when the cicada's voice is silent and all the daughters of song bow - Nathan Yonathan, "Perhaps One Day"; and likewise: There is a poet of the type 'bachelor', who has not yet clung to a muse, there is a poet of the type 'widower', his song's Sabbath has long died - Hananiah Reichman, "Sayings and Inscriptions, Books, Writers and Artists".)