Mentem Mortalia Tangunt - Manmohan Ghose

Now lonely is the wood:

No flower now lingers, none!

The virgin sisterhood

Of roses, all are gone;

Now Autumn sheds her latest leaf;

And in my heart is grief.

The Stragglers - Carl Spitteler

"Have all the bell-notes come back to me?"

"All but the notes that stray farthest - three."

"And which are those that return so late?"

"The full-toned, the searching, the delicate."

You Had Given Your Word - Candan Erçetin

You had given your word to me

To stay here always by my me

We swore all this this didn't we?

That whatever happened, we would be together

Last Song of the Exile - Miguel Teurbe Tolón

I.

Hard my path on earth is closed;

Light is dead within my heart.

Star of Hope! thou art gone down;

Clay and spirit now must part!

The Deep Song - Georg Trakl

From deep night I was released.

My soul is astonished in immortality,

My soul listens over space and time

To the melody of eternity!

Divine creator of the light - Gregory the Great

Divine creator of the light, 

Who, bringing forth the golden ray, 

Didst join the morning with the night 

And call the blessed union day;

Poem V - Pablo Neruda

For you to hear,

my words

sometimes grow thin

as seagull tracks on the beach.

I have seen Yiddish words - Moyshe Kulbak

I have seen Yiddish words like small flames, like small flames,

like sparks, risen from dark ore.

When poetry opens her doors - Mario Benedetti

When poetry opens her doors

One feels like time embraces us

A gratuitous and novel truth

Breakfast - Dan Slobin

Making my breakfast

I look out through the kitchen window:

two deer

peacefully munching at my garden.