The Heron Chase - Anastasius Grün

When spring again encircles the earth in her genial embrace,

There rides from the gates of Bruges a party for the chase;

Full many handsome falconers on shapely coursers ride,

And withal the beautiful duchess by her loving husband’s side.

The Desolate Star - Robin Hyde

Little winds of dawn come gently to them,

All the living stars, the other stars.

My Husband's Tongue is Bitter (Song of Lawino - I) - Okot p' Bitek

Husband, now you despise me

Now you treat me with spite

find say I have inherited the stupidity of my aunt;

Aurora - D.A.M. Binnendijk

The night's metaphorical secret

Imbues me with but not a single rhyme

But it awakens the birds out of their nests

The Alien - Bishnu Dey

On either side the woods, in the middle the road

Gleamingly goes winding as nature beats the tune.

Coarse the rush-mat roof - Tenchi Tenno

Coarse the rush-mat roof

Sheltering the harvest-hut

The Steam King - Edward P. Mead

There is a King, and a ruthless King;

Not a King of the poet’s dream;

But a tyrant fell, white slaves know well,

And that ruthless King is Steam.

The Keening Of The Reed - Qassim Haddad

He put his paw in the lake

like one dipping a quill in a well of words…

He wasn't of reed,

nor has Love a thing to grant:

Among beasts there is no wolf worthy of the loneliness

An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion - Yehuda Amichai

An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion

And on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy.

Yesterday - Bruce Levitan

These grey skies stretch like dirty washing

Enclosing the trampled ground,

Itself endlessly grey with rubble and detritus.

The Waif - A. C. Smith

He went into the bush, and passed

Out of the sight of living men,

None knows the nook that held him last,

None ever saw his face again.

You came to lean on a leaf from my body - Emilio Adolfo Westphalen

You came to lean on a leaf from my body

Sweet and heavy drop like the sun over our lives

You brought the scent of wood and the tenderness of a leaning stalk

Jaafer Ben Alba - On the Battle of Sabla

Sabla, thou saw'st th' exulting foe

In fancied triumphs crown'd; 

Thou heard'st their frantic females throw

These galling taunts around:

Lord Jesus, give me shelter - Lina Sandell

Lord Jesus, give me shelter,

hide me beneath your wings.

You are my safe protection;

to you my spirit sings.

Amin Kassam - Strangers Forever

Each of us 

is a passenger 

seated in one huge 

compartment 

African Thunderstorm - David Rubadiri

From the west

Clouds come hurrying with the wind

Turning sharply

Here and there

Epigram 9.312 - Diodorus Zonas

Refrain, sirrah, from cutting the oak, 

the mother of acorns; 

Draupadî's Remonstrance (The Hunter and the Hero - Book I) - Bhāravi

Sent in hermit's guise to spy

How Kuru's monarch ruled his men, 

A forester, his task performed,

Yudhishthir met in Dvaita's glen. 

Prometheus Unbound, 716-818 - Aeschylus

Well, since you are bent on this,
I will not refuse to proclaim all that you still crave to know.
First, to you, Io, will I declare your much-vexed wandering,
and may you engrave it on the recording tablets of your mind.

The Emmigrant's Adieu to Ballyshannon - William Allingham

Adieu to Ballyshannon! where I was bred and born; 

Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as night and morn; 

The kindly spot, the friendly town, where every one is known, 

And not a face in all the place but partly seems my own. 

There 's not a house or window, there 's not a field or hill, 

But, east or west, in foreign lands, I'll recollect them still. 

I leave my warm heart with you, though my back I'm forced to turn, — 

So adieu to Ballyshannon, and the winding banks of Erne! 

Compassionate, You are the most merciful - Si Mohand ou-Mhand

Compassionate, You are the most merciful

Glory to You the Almighty

Master of countless crowds

Close to Your Heart - José María Contursi

What a horrible night I’ve had!

Everything in my room is cold.

I owe it all to you, my love:

despair and weariness.

Like The Sun's Uprising Light - Burkhart of Hohenfels

Like the sun's uprising light

Shines that maid, before whom fade

Other charms, however bright;

As the stars at break of day,

Late so brilliant fade away.

The Rainbow's End - Google Bard

The water falls, a thousand flecks of light,

And through the spray the rainbow's arch is thrown,

A bridge of colour spanning heaven and night,

A promise of the sun beyond the stone.

Song - Cahit Külebi

Your lips are red

Your hands are white

Take my hands, child,

Hold them a while.

The Girls of Llanbadarn - Dafydd ap Gwilym

I bow before this passion;

a plague on the parish girls!

Because, o force of longing,

I've never had one of thern!

Bosongo’s Dark Alleys - Onchoka Ongoro

That morning, as I walked to work

A lady who aired her wares in Bosongo’s dark alleys smiled at me

Into the depths (Jingika book of the Senzaishū, SZS XX: 1278) - Priest En'i

Into the depths

I traversed the

Road of the kami,

Let My Shadow Disappear Into Yours - Par Lagerkvist

Let my shadow disappear into yours.