«When my life is arduous, / If sadness freezes blood, / I say one prayer marvelous, / I learned it all by heart. There's vigor unbelievable / In living words' accords, / And breathes unfamiliar / And holly charm in words. A heart becomes not troublesome, / And doubts go awry, / And ...»
«The people of Israel, cry, cry! / You lost your star, divine and blessed; / It will not ever light the sky — / And dark will catch the earthly place. / There is, at last, a single man, / Who'd lost the whole world at that; / Void of a thought, a sense, midst plains, / He sought her t...»
«On a bare hill's top, in the North, wild and cold, / A lone pine-tree somewhere stands; / She dozes, swaying, all covered by snow / With a mantel from feet to a head. She sees in her dreams: in a faraway desert, / In lands where the sun enters skies, / Alone and sad, on a rock's sunburn...»
«Not with the proud kind of beauty / She charms the animated youth, / And she doesn't drag behind her booty — / The crowd of her slaves, confused. Her waist isn't one of any goddess, / Her breast does not rise like sea waves, / And nobody calls her gorgeous, / While falling on his knee...»