«Depuis que le juge éternel / M'a donné le connaissance de prophete, / Je sais lire dans les yeux des hommes / Leurs méchancetés et leurs vices. Alors que je pręchais l'amour pur / Et les doctrines exactes, / Mes amis, comme fous, / Me jetčrent des pierres. Je répandais ma tęte ...»
«Just in front of my window / Stands a birch-tree white / All covered with snow / Glimmering silver bright. The snow on its branches / Sparkles all around / Pretty tassels dangling. / Silence. Not a sound. And the birch-tree slumbers / Standing all alone. / And the snow glimmers / ...»
«The angel was flying through sky in midnight, / And softly he sang in his flight; / And clouds, and stars, and the moon in a throng / Hearkened to that holy song. / He sang of the garden of God's paradise, / Of innocent ghosts in its shade; / He sang of the God, and his vivacious praise ...»
«Beside a blessed mansion's gate / There stood a beggar with a staff, / A poor, half-dead, dried out by fate / Of hardships, pain he'd had enough. For just a bread-piece was his pray / Of tortures, anguish was his sight / Some man a stone came up to lay / Into his hand reached outright. ...»