«O, righteous God, / Hear my prayers / For the souls of those who are perishing / Without absolution; / For all those anguishing, / For all those suffering, / For those striving toward You, / For those ignorant of You! I do not beg for obedience And hope / For you, the humble, / Wh...»
«My sadness is always with me. / And even if I were a bird, / Even if two unfettered wings / Whirled me away to another place: / Into the land of the snows — where there’s silence and shadows, / Or to the valleys of roses — in the midday heat — / It is always with me. My sadness ...»
«O we — the sorrowful, / We — the damned, / Participants in good, / Defeated by evil, / In our dreams — exalted, / In our deeds — deceitful, / In our impulses — wild, / In our tears—pitiful! Chosen by Fate, / Ignorant of happiness, / We wander — strange ones — / A...»
«I love the faded blossoms / Of late-blooming violets and lilacs, / Half-hinted, half-tinted / By an entwining haze of beauty. The troubled soul is ill / And embraced by the silent dusk; / It is enraptured by approaching sleep / And the peaceful charm of sunset. What remains for the fir...»