«The threshing barn is stifling and hot, / I laugh, but in my heart, I weep from spite. / My old friend mumbles to me: “Jinx it not, / Can’t you discern that luck is on our side!” I listen to my old friend’s words with doubt. / He’s lost his sight, he’s ludicrous and vile. / He...»
«Bury me, bury me, wind! / None of my kin had arrived, / Above me, the evening dimmed / And the earth indistinctly sighed. Like you, I was free and of course, / I couldn’t resist life’s charms / And now, wind, you see my corpse, / With no one to fold my arms. Let this black wound re...»
«Not the snake fangs, but the stinging / Heartache emptied out my veins. / A quiet girl, I call love, singing / Birdlike in the whitened plains. The other road closed long ago, / My prince — in a fortress, up high, / Will I betray him? — I don’t know! / But my life on this earth i...»
«Muse-sister gazed at me pensively, / Her clear bright eyes didn’t blink, / And snatched the gold ring from me, / The very first gift of spring. / Muse! you see, how happy they feel – / Young ladies, widows, and wives… / I would much rather die on the wheel / Than to be in these f...»