The Helmet And The Dandelion - Eduardas Miezelaitis

The Helmet And The Dandelion
Near a rotted old stump
Which the spring water washes
An old helmet rusts, gaunt,
And upon it, audacious,

Čelesta - Antanas Škėma

Tan tin tin tan — the celesta hammers away. Here I turn off the light, and darkness drinks me in. I lie like one immured but still permitted to breathe. I lie like one to be crucified whom nobody will nail to the cross. I lie and wait.

Song of Mist - Balys Sruoga

The smooth oar lifts no spray,
The soft breeze dies away,
There's joy in store today.

Narrow Street - Judita Vaičiūnaitė

Where the yard like a sea shell guards
        the tiny graceful church,
where green shutters and windows open
        onto the sooty snow,
on the pavement's cross section,

Bygones cannot by bygones - Faustas Kirsa

Bygones cannot by bygones.
Only streets and squares have forgotten the smell of fire.
Only fields
have forgotten the taste of blood.

The wooden Christ - Faustas Kirsa

In his fathers' home, a farmer who's a hundred 

Carves a wooden model Lord that works some wonders.

The Liberal says - Morris Winchevsky

The Liberal says, Jack must help him 

Because he is his friend. 

The Conservative says: My heart 

Opens to Jack today. 

Horses wade in the Nemunas - Bernardas Brazdzionis

horses wade in the Nemunas

they drink flowing fog

they drink the morning

Child of war - Salomėja Nėris

O child of war, preserve your weapon,

For future children let it stay,

For they will come and ask their question

What was the world like in our day?

Journey into night - Janina Degutyte

My sister told me, "You are not my brother."

My brother told me, "You are not my brother."

Where can I find a sister - where, a brother.

Who am, to sister and to brother, alien?

The National Song - Kudirka Vincas

Lithuania, our dear homeland,

Land of worthy heroes,

May your sons draw strength and vigour

From your past experience.

One drop of blood - Aistis Jonas

One drop of blood would have cleansed you,

          But in your misery you missed it,

And though we drew our strength from the old times -

          Our promises remained unfulfilled...

Homeland - Salomėja Nėris

Despoiled and blood-drenched by the foe

You rise before my eyes.

Many a hundred miles I'll go

To see your stirring skies.

News Has Come - Maironis

"News has just come in from Prussia:

  Saddle up your horse!

Knights are heading for our country

  With a mighty force.

Not He is a Great Man - Vincas Kudirka

Not he is a great man before whom the millions

In manacled meekness, in fetters bow down

Yet inwardly curse him; it is not the tyrant

Whom thankful descendants with glory will crown.

Mortuos voco - Putinas

But silence shrouds the grave-yard on the hill. 

No corpse stirs from its damp and earthly cell. 

Vivos plango - Putinas

Now I depart. With benedictory grace

A world of silence summons me to go,

I feel the gentle shroud of endless space,

The Night that soothes and softens all our woe.

Basic Overhaul - Nijole Miliauskaite

in a frenzy I turn the whole house upside down
from basement to attic, amazing myself, I can't stop wondering
what imp has possessed me, it's really
so ludicrous

Song of Antiquity - Maironis

Word is here, from as far as Vilnius: Saddle the steed.
In Marienburg Teutonic knights move to destroy us.
Goodbye, dear heart, my sister! Be still. Wait for me.
     If I not perish, I shall return, joyous.

Good Morning! - Matilda Olkin

Oh, the Sun has awoken
And is leaping from her bed.
She opens one eye, then the other,
“Good morning!”