«O Lake Saimaa, you beautiful maiden, my boat you were swaying, / Swayed the lively and spirited skiff that like arrow was sharpened, / Heard a lullaby’s bliss did my soul in the watery spraying, / Saw away in the distance, like sisters, deserted escarpments. / Kalevala’s primordial refra...»
«Aya Sophia — wondrous building planted / For God to judge the peoples and the kings! / Your dome, said one who saw it once, enchanted, / Suspended seems to be by heaven’s strings. And all the ages ape Justinian’s pattern, / Who, when desiring others’ gods to loot / Was granted by ...»
«I’ve returned to my city, with tears too well versed, / And with veins and with childhood’s glands ready to burst. You’ve returned here — with haste you have swallowed some draughts / Of the fish oil that fuels the river’s light’s shafts! So December day sooner acknowledge my frien...»
«Today is a drear day, / Grasshoppers they don’t fret, / Escarpment it hangs grey, / Gloomy as coffin’s plate. The hissing of darts’ flight / and squawk of astute crows… / I’m frightened of dreams’ night, / the moment it soon goes. Oh, capture the fleet tide, / dismantle t...»