«Thus swam the head and lyre down / To the receding far-off place. / And lips repeated: pity, pity, / And the lyre enounced: "Peace" Bloody-silver, silver-and-bloody / And double trace she did then pour, / My tender brother, my dear sister / Along the paralyzed Gebr. At times, the movem...»
«I have erected a monument to myself / Not built by hands; the track of it, though trodden / By the people, shall not become overgrown, / And it stands higher than Alexander’s column. I shall not wholly die. In my sacred lyre / My soul shall outlive my dust and escape corruption — / An...»
«A monument not hand-made I have for me erected; / The path to it well-trodden will not overgrow; / Risen higher has it with unbending head / Than the monument of Alexander. No! not all of me shall die! my soul in hallowed lyre / Shall my dust survive, and escape destruction — / And famo...»
«Not for flattering chausibles, frocks of lies — / I was born in this world with loud voice! Wide awake — not the night dreams for me! / I don't live, like you, whisperingly! From you, whisper-whisper, I have — / Lyre, lyre, a swan's curve! With laurel, with dawn, with winds one / I...»