«In northern capital a dusty poplar’s planted, / Translucent clock-face is ensnared by dappled green, / And in its shade gleams house or battleship enchanted / From far away, the kin of sky and water’s sheen. A breezy barque, its mast of touch-me-not is slender, / It stands in line along...»
«In dreadful world of grim oppressor / You, midnight burials’ gruesome friend, / In suicide’s strict lofty dresser / The telephone tells of the end. The asphalt blackened lakes are pitted / As angry horse hooves clatter by, / Comes soon the sun; then soon emitted / Will be the sensel...»
«O Lake Saimaa, you beautiful maiden, my boat you were swaying, / Swayed the lively and spirited skiff that like arrow was sharpened, / Heard a lullaby’s bliss did my soul in the watery spraying, / Saw away in the distance, like sisters, deserted escarpments. / Kalevala’s primordial refra...»
«Aya Sophia — wondrous building planted / For God to judge the peoples and the kings! / Your dome, said one who saw it once, enchanted, / Suspended seems to be by heaven’s strings. And all the ages ape Justinian’s pattern, / Who, when desiring others’ gods to loot / Was granted by ...»