«Там, де земля вся обгоріла, / Де, наче дим, блакить пливе, / Лихе, нещасне божевілля / В безжурній радості живе. Там, під проміннями палкими / Воно в розпечених піск...»
«Monotonous dying of the hours: / midnight is telling a tedious tale / in a foreign language we can’t fail / to recognise as ours. Who can claim it never befell / him to hear time’s muffled groans / stab his soul at night, the drone, / when all’s quiet, of a prescient farewell? It...»
«There are twins. For the earthborn / they are gods, Death and Sleep, / like brother and sister wondrously akin, / Death's the gloomier, Sleep is gentler. But there are two more twins: / there are no finer twins in the world, / and there's no fascination more fearsome / than he who's sur...»
«The telephone rang. / “Hello! Who’s there?” / “The Polar Bear.” / “What do you want?” / “I’m calling for the Elephant.” / “What does he want?” / “He wants a little Peanut brittle.” / “Peanut brittle!.. / And for whom?” “It’s for his little Elephan...»