A mother's lament for her drowned son - Anonymous

Alas, alas thine empty seat, my son!

Vainly thy garments I did toil to dry.

Thy mother's joy is clouded o'er with grief,

And darkness veils the lonely sky.

The Battle of Hafur's Bay - Hornklofi

Loud in Hafur’s echoing bay 

Heard ye the battle fiercely bray, 

’Twixt Kiotva rich, and Harald bold! 

Eastward sail the ships of war; 

The graven bucklers gleans afar,  

And monsterous heads adorn the prows of gold. 

Sways, with her trinkets - Hatim al-Tai

Sways, with her trinkets, she, endowed with splendour

With a waist like the fold of flimsy cloth, slim

And a neck like a cup of silver, adorning it

The blaze of the ruby and the strung beads

Vondel's Lucifer (Act II, lines 192-276) - Joost van den Vondel

Lucifer:

Shall then on high

A worm, an alien, wield the greatest power?

Must they who native are to Heaven thus yield

To foreign rule? Shall man then found a throne

Even o'er the Throne of God?

My King - Nachmanides

Ere time began, ere age to age had thrilled, 

I waited in his storehouse, as he willed; 

He gave me being, but, my years fulfilled, 

I shall be summoned back before the King. 

Hands - Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Cooperation and understanding is essential

To build country brick by brick.

Most creatures are four-legged

But human being walks with two legs.

The Executioner's Dream - Kwesi Brew

I dreamt i saw an eye, a pretty eye

In your hands

Glittering, wet and sikening

Like a dull onyx set in a crown of thorns

I did not know you were dead

When you dropped it in my lap

Mount Beysitoun - Nizami Ganjavi

On lofty Beysitoun the lingering sun

Looks down on ceaseless labors, long begun;

The mountain trembles to the echoing sound

Of falling rocks that from her sides rebound.

The Frontier Guard - Anastasius Grün

The sentinel his weary hours

Keeps guard in quarantine;

Across the stream, in paths of flowers,

The Turkish maid is seen.

Memory - Erik Johan Stagnelius

O camp of flowers, with poplars girdled round,

Grey guardians of life’s soft and purple bud!