«Among the glaucous waves that kiss gold Tauris' beaches / I saw a Nereid, as dawn flushed heaven's reaches. / I barely dared to breathe, hid in the olive trees, / While the young demigoddess rose above the seas; / Her young, her swan-white breast above the waters lifting, / From her soft h...»
«With freedom's seed the desert sowing, / I walked before the morning star; / From pure and guiltless fingers throwing— / Where slavish plows had left a scar— / The fecund seed, the procreator; / Oh vain and sad disseminator, / I learned then what lost labors are.... Graze if you wil...»
«The stove is orphaned now; the old housewife has died, / The trivet tells the pot with tears; their talk is harried. / Behind the pane two trustful magpies, side by side, / Chirp: "May is near, today the finches will be married, Smith Woodpecker with busy knocking has stripped his throat, ...»
«A tree grows, reminiscent / Of a natural wooden column. / It sprouts members / Dressed in round leaves. / A congregation of such trees / Makes up a wood, a forest, a grove. / But the definition of a forest is imprecise / When we point out just its formal structure. A cow's fat body, ...»