Cataclysm and Songs - Conceição Lima

Happy what's left of me after I'm gone
If only one of the songs sung
Lives beyond the person singing in me now.
Yet I would not save from the slaughter
A single one of the songs I sang and sing.

Aurora - Caetano da Costa Alegre

You're horrified by me, I know. Aurora,
You are the day, I am the thick night,
Where I end, your being does alight.
You don't love!... this soul of mine worships you, flora.

Visions - Caetano da Costa Alegre

I saw you pass, far from me, far away, 

Like a walking ebony statue; 

Total independence (National Anthem) - Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo

Total independence,

Glorious song of the people,

Total independence,

Sacred hymn of combat.

Blues Fragment - Francisco José Tenreiro

For Langston Hughes

All the melancholy of nights in Georgia
comes to me
this stormy night in Europe
through the solitary voice of the trumpet: