On the shore - Sándor Kányádi

The band's drum out-thumps the sea,

neon outshines all the stars;

Hail Thou the World's Salvation - Bernard of Clairvaux

Hail thou, the world's salvation, 

Hail Jesus kind and sweet, 

Before thy Rood in gratitude 

I bow and clasp thy feet. 

To the Princess Leonora When Forbidden by Her Physicians to Sing - Torquato Tasso

Oh! ’tis a merciless decree,

  That to the envied world denies

The sound of that sweet voice which we

  So much admire, so dearly prize!

Do you know - Helen Adamson

To you, who has fulfilled all my beautiful wishes,

I breathe slowly, because it doesn't feel real

this air around us, warmly touching your lips.

What am I feeling, what am I thinking, there is someone in my heart?

 

Chopstick Diplomacy - Mbuh Tennu Mbuh

Such dragon embraces 

of a postcolonial scam that insult

the memory of a people under twenty-first century noon, 

Book of the Beds of the Spices, Garden Bed IV:6 - Joseph ben Tanchum ha-Yerushalmi

Make no oath to torture me, my love,

for how I will turn you away.

Grammar and Medicine - Agathias Scholasticus

A thriving doctor sent his son to school 

To gain some knowledge, should he prove no fool; 

Your country - Antoine Abel

Your country

Is studded with mountains,

Life (Vita Nostra Plena Bellis) - Alain de L'Isle

A battle-field is life, 

Where sorrow comes and strife 

Our strength to try; 

Each morning dawns with fear, 

Each evening brings the tear, 

And death is nigh. 

The Blind Boy - Sagara Palansuriya

They say, flowers are gorgeous and are of lovely shades

The things they speak of as they can see

I don’t understand, mother, so here I am to learn

Please explain to me, I don’t know these