Santo Domingo - Frank Báez

Theseus reeled in Ariadne’s thread

seeking an exit from the labyrinth

Doubts - Reina María Rodríguez

Today I’d like to write about what I need—

not to waste time

or throw words down into gulleys

descending into my depths

naked and alone

Eyes so tristful - Diego de Saldaña

Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, 

Heart so full of care and cumber, 

I was lapped in rest and slumber. 

In the Armenian Mountains - Hovhannes Tumanian

The way was heavy and the night was dark,

And yet we survived

Both sorrow and gloom.

Through the ages we go and gaze at the stark

Steep heights of our land—

The Armenian Highlands.

Beautiful planet Earth! - Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Beautiful planet Earth!

Splendid the heav'ns above!

Lovely the road we as pilgrims take.

Through earth's great kingdoms we

march, singing joyfully,

till we in Paradise awake.

If Love should render me myself - Gaspara Stampa

If Love should render me myself, someday,

And, from that heartless Lord thus release me,

A Woman to Her Lover - Annamayya

Don't you know my house,

garland in the palace of the Love God,

where flowers cast their fragrance everywhere?

The Fickleness of Himalayan Tigers or the Ballad of Human Courage - Mukhtar Shakhanov

Terrible to admit,

almost all of us

should be afraid

of ourselves above everything…

Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats

That is no country for old men. The young

In one another's arms, birds in the trees

- Those dying generations - at their song,

The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,

Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long

Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.

Caught in that sensual music all neglect

Monuments of unageing intellect.

Hallucination - Zohra Mansouri

I emerge from myself, like an exotic bird.

I absorb the strangeness of the place,

Drawing a sea with the bones of men.