WHAT murmurs are these that so wofully rise
Into heart-storms of agony borne from afar?
A tempest of passion, a tumult of sighs?
There is dread on the earth, and stern grief in the skies,
While the nations, appalled, watch the realm of the Czar!

Ballads Of Four Seasons: Summer

© Li Po

On Mirror Lake outspread for miles and miles,
The lotus lilies in full blossom teem.
In fifth moon Xi Shi gathers them with smiles,
Watchers o'erwhelm the bank of Yuoye Stream.
Her boat turns back without waiting moonrise
To yoyal house amid amorous sighs.

I learnedat leastwhat Home could be

© Emily Dickinson

I learnedat leastwhat Home could be
How ignorant I had been
Of pretty ways of Covenant
How awkward at the Hymn

Spring In The Shops

© Bert Leston Taylor

(In the manner of Ezra Pound)

Stanzas on the Taking of Quebec and the Death of General Wolfe

© Oliver Goldsmith

AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys,
Which triumph forces from the patriot heart,
Grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice,
And quells the raptures which from pleasures start.

Johnson, alias Crow

© Henry Lawson

Where the seasons are divided and the bush begins to change,

and the links are rather broken in the Great Dividing Range;

Afloat And Ashore

'Tumble and rumble, and grumble and snort,
Like a whale to starboard, a whale to port;
Tumble and rumble, and grumble and snort,
And the steamer steams thro' the sea, love!'

Your Slander Is Sweet

© Mirabai

Rana, to me your slander is sweet.

Some praise me, some blame me. I

Der Schiffbruch

"Gewagt! Freund, komm mit mir aufs Meer!
Das Trinken macht den Beutel leer,
Drum hol ich mir in fernen Landen,
Die unsre Vaeter niemals fanden,
Gold, Silber, Berlen, Edelstein;
Und folglich Wein."

Young Henry

Young Henry was as faithful boy
As ever stood on the American soil,
And he did enlist, without a doubt,
When the rebellion was broke out.

THE night-birds cry in the bush outside,
And I write here, though the hour be late;
And what shall I write of the man who died?
"He gave his gold to the poor at his gate!"