Summer has come - Anonymous

Summer has come, healthy and free,

Whence the brown wood is aslope;

The slender nimble deer leap,

And the path of seals is smooth.

Song - Theognis of Megara

Muses and Graces! daughters of high Jove, 

When erst you left your glorious seats above 

To bless the bridal of that wondrous pair, 

Cadmus and Harmonia fair, 

Ye chanted forth a divine air: 

To my country - Jens Immanuel Baggesen

Thou spot of earth, where from the breast of woe 

My eye first rose, and in the purple glow 

Of morning, and the dewy smile of love, 

Mark'd the first gleamings of the power above: 

Bright Thoughts for a Dark Day - Pamelia Sarah Yule

Will the shadows be lifted to-morrow? — 

Will the sunshine come ever again? — 

Will the clouds, that are weeping in sorrow,

Their glorious beauty regain? 

Spring, and the sharpness of the golden dawn - Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Spring, and the sharpness of the golden dawn.

Before the sun was up a cooler breeze

Had blown, in promise of a day of heat,

And I was walking in my formal garden,

To freshen me, before the day grew old.

O soothe thy servants' woes, and bring (Placare Christe Servulis) - Rabanus Maurus

O soothe thy servants' woes, and bring 

Our souls to thee, most clement King; 

We seek before thy mercy seat 

The Virgin's intercession sweet. 

Heavenly Questions (Section 1) - Ch`u Yuan

'Tis said:

At the beginning of remote antiquity, 

Who was there to transmit the tale? 

When above and below had not yet taken shape, 

By what means could they be examined?

Man, a tree growing from Brahma - Yajnavalkya

As a tree of the forest, 

Just so, surely, is man. 

His hairs are leaves. 

His skin the outer bark. 

The Epic of Gilgamesh (The story of the Flood) - Anonymous

Gilgamesh spoke to Utanapishtim, the Faraway:

"I have been looking at you,

but your appearance is not strange--you are like me!

On avarice - Hatim al-Tai

How frail are riches and their joys? 

Morn builds the heap which eve destroys; 

Yet can they leave one sure delight 

The thought that we've employ'd them right.