I Will Not Hurry - Ralph Spaulding Cushman

I will not hurry through this day!

Lord, I will listen by the way,

Switzerland - Anastasius Grün

From a lofty Alpine summit look down upon this land,

It lies there like a volume all written by God’s hand;

The mountains are the letters, as leaves the fields unroll,

Saint Gothard is only an asterisk in this gigantic scroll.

The Musical Ass - Tomás Iriarte

The fable which I now present

Occurr’d to me by accident;

And whether bad or excellent,

Is merely so by accident.

Sonnet XXIV: Do not reproach me, ladies - Louise Labé

Do not reproach me, ladies, if I’ve loved,

if I have felt a thousand torches’ fires,

a thousand ills, a thousand fierce desires,

Dragonfly catcher - Fukuda Chiyo-ni

Dragonfly catcher,

How far have you gone today

In your wandering?

The Poem of the Universe - Śrî Ānanda Āchārya

In my soul is the Light and the Life and the Word.

I am the pilgrim and the path and the goal.

Work of Art - Bernadette Chikapa

Do painters’ fingers tingle with that rush

When their thumb and index holds not the brush?

Do they too feel that longing deep inside

When their empty canvas hurts their pride?

Est Virgo Coeli Rore - John Mauburne

Over Mary's soul so tender, 

Falls heaven's holiest dew; 

Her peer in grace and splendor 

Creation never knew; 

The Arrabida Convent - Francisco Manuel de Melo

Falter not, pilgrim here! with steady steps

Upward along this dark-o’ershadowed path

Bliss - Viplob Pratik

rosy breeze in the air,

silky dew in my heart

milky rays from the moon

in my room

and, i feel like i am wrapped in the rainbow.

Great Riches Do Not Fill the Heart (from Ibonia: Conception and Birth, part 1) - Anonymous

The Prince of the East, they say,

     was stirred to pay a visit to Skyfather.

He took his children with him:

Gray-Eyed Man, Young-Man-Worth-Six, Princess Like-a-Man,

     and his subjects, Many Cares and Many Close Ones.

The perfect night - Dorji Thangzom

The spotted lights I see 

on the valleys beyond,

calls for me every night I feel 

alone and exhausted

and also reminds me that 

indeed life is beautiful!

Spring - Abay Kunanbayev

Spring came and melted the snow and ice.

The earth was covered in soft velvet.

Freed from winter's hibernation and heartache

all that lives clings with its heart to warmth and light.

Sport Türkmenistan - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Here is a poem of flowers and trees

Here is a music of mountains and sea

Beautiful sides of rivers and sky

All other beauties in Turkmenistan!

 

How are You at once the source of fire - Symeon the New Theologian

How are You at once the source of fire,

how also the fountain of dew?

How at once burning and sweetness,

how a remedy for all disease?

Listen, Khavar (His Wife) - Samad Vurghun

If death should take his place at the head of my bed,

Like an executioner, scythe in right hand,

You, my beloved one, do not grieve-instead

Don't look upon with horror, boldly stand.

My Dark Eyed One - Alisher Navoi

Come my dark eyed one come and show your kindness,

Weave a nest for yourself, in the depth of my pupils.

Generosity - Rudaki

You killed many, broke the enemy’s courage.

You gave so much, there isn’t one beggar left.

The flying Elephant - Zamir Osorov

It is not a Fan

But this poetry

Pretends to look like an Elephant.

The thunder is a great dragon - Anonymous

The thunder is a great dragon that lives in the water

and flies in the air.

He carries two stones.

Genre-Picture - Jens Peter Jacobsen

Page upon the battlement,

In the distance staring,

On a song of love intent,

Of his love's despairing.

Why do you roam the jungles - Baba Sheikh Farid

Says Farid,

Why do you roam the jungles with thorns pricking your feet?

Love - Edith Södergran

My soul was a light blue dress the color of the sky;

I left it on a rock by the sea

and naked I came to you, looking like a woman.

Lament III - Jan Kochanowski

So, thou hast scorned me, my delight and heir;

Thy father's halls, then, were not broad and fair

Enough for thee to dwell here longer, sweet.

When the tom-tom beats - Jacques Roumain

My heart trembles in the shadows

like a face reflected in troubled water.

Rainforest - Eileen Chong

It is hard to carry these vowels.

Lost in translation—or found.

My namesake, so greatly desired

Beyond the Helplessness Principle - Kacper Bartczak

Something will occur and at once it will be found

among other occurrences I know

that the heaviest dreams are only an illusion

No, Molotov - Tatu Pekkarinen

Finlandia, Finlandia,

that’s where the Ivans were heading again.

When Molotov promised: "Yes, everything will go fine,

tomorrow we'll already be eating ice-cream in Helsinki.”

No Molotov, no Molotov

you told more lies than Bobrikov himself.

 

God Speaks to Man - Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

I speak to you.

Be still

Know

I am

God.

On Procrastination - Hebat Allah ibn Altalmith

Youth is a drunken, noisy hour,

  With every folly fraught;

But man, by Age's chastening power,

  Is sobered into thought.