«It sings, it sings, it sings, my soul, / My soul is blooming so, / In truth this year beyond control — / Its cause I do not know. The country’s shrines are coffin-lined, / There’s hunger, plague and sword, / But it’s as if in me sun’s shined: / It’s struck a joyful chord. T...»
«I walked in winter through a quagmire, / Galoshes, / Hat and / Specs I wore. / And someone swept along the river / On clinking metal hooks, / What’s more. I ran to river all the faster, / Towards the woods he running veered, / Two planks attached to feet – disaster – / He sa...»
«My voice is weak, but not my resolution, / A loveless life is easier for me. / The sky is high, from hill breathes absolution / And from all accusation I am free. The night-nurse of insomnia has departed, / The ashen sulphur’s ceased to cause me pain, / Though towers’ crooked handed c...»
«That stellar moment I remember: / Before me, sudden, there you were, / A fleeting vision’s dying ember, / The purest height of beauty’s blur. And when with hopeless sadness tested / Amidst the noisy fuss and flap, / It’s long in tender voice I rested / And let your features round ...»