«What is the meaning of seventh heaven? / Is it a circle deep into the heights? / Like the gallery in a theater, / An outer limit for enthusiasts? Even amoebas have their own heaven, / Replete with a throng of amoebic saints, / They have their heroes, and Cleopatras, / Zealous for love a...»
«I seek for rhythmic whisperings / Where noises bandy — / For life I listen wistfully / In footless banter. I cast wide nets and tentative / In lakes of sorrow. / I go toward final tenderness / By pathways sordid. I look for dewdrops glistering / In falsehood's gardens. / I save t...»
«A shameless thing, of every vileness capable, / It is as drab as dust, as earthly dust. / I perish of a nearness inescapable; / Its fatal coils about my limbs are thrust. A shaggy poulp, embracing me, and pricking me, / And as a serpent cold against my heart, / Its branching scales are po...»
«Thou queen of all serenity, / Soul of my soul, most chaste, / I summon thee, divinity, / I summon thee, make haste! But to the tryst thy offering / Shall not be brought alone. / My guilt will come, my suffering, / My sin will lift its moan. Before thy heart insulted so, / In shame my...»