From Arabic
Labid Bin Rabīˁa: Lament for Arbad
ˁUmar Ibn Al-Fāriḍ: "Was that Layla's fire..."
Ibn Khafāja: The Mountain Poem
Rabiˁa Al-ˁAdawiyya: Lover of Lovers
Amal Al-Jubouri: Veil of Religions
Adunis: The Seven Days
ˁAbdul-Wahhab Al-Bayati: , Poem for the Man of Light
Mahmoud Darwish: We Travel Like Anyone Else, It is Our Right to Love Autumn, I Am From There, Passport, To My Mother
Rashid Hussein: Without a Passport
Nawal Naffaa: Slip
Nizar Qabbani: Pregnant, "I want...", Still, Refinement by Reading your Body, "Your Love", Like Shahrayar, Take Off Your Clothes
Samih al-Qasim: Not even, The End of a Discussion with a Prison Guard, Buchenwald, Rain on the Newsstand, Kafr Qasim, Travel Tickets
From Catalan
Clementina Arderiu: Song of the Beautiful Trust
Joan Brossa: The Poet Finds a Theme, Night, Time
J.V. Foix: Lord God
Ausiàs March: Poem I, Poem IV, Poem XXVIII
From Chinese
Bao Junhui: Moon Over Frontier Mountains
Bei Ling: Time Like a Fallen Horse
Du Fu: At Fajing Temple, Facing the Snow, Seagulls
Li Bai: Farewell to Meng Haoran, Seeing a Friend Off, Seeing a Friend Off to Shu, Moon Over Frontier Mountains, Longgully Ballad, Thought on a Quiet Night
Li Qingzhao: "My jewelled mat feels autumnal,"
Li Ye: Loving Complaint
Liu Zongyuan: The Song of the Caged Goshawk
Sikong Shu: Goodbye to a Friend Returning North after the Rebellion
Xi Peilan: Crossing the Yangtze
Yu Xuanji: Love letter to Zian
Wang Wei: Impromptu Verses on Life in the Hills, Taking Leave, Deer Park
Wang Zhihuan: Beyond the Border: A Song of Liangzhou
Zhang Jiuling: Brooding on Circumstance: Poem 1
Zhang Rong: Poem of Parting
From Esperanto
William Auld: The Dancing Woman, Elegy in an Old Graveyard, Julia on Pandateria, Snow
Marjorie Boulton: Memnon
Kalman Kalocsay: To a Friend in a POW Camp, Sundown, Murder Age, A Summer Night
Edwin de Kock: Over-understanding, Masterwork
Ludmila Jevsejeva: Autumn Melody
From Dutch
Leonard Nolens: Poem for a Friend
Bernard Dewulf: Alice After Wonderland, Young Son Asleep, Dido's Lament
Charles Ducal: Incomplete
Maurice Gilliams: Dying in Antwerp, Autumn
Herman Gorter: "The trees were there and still", The Silent Road
Luuk Gruwez: Gender
Hubert van Herreweghen: Migrating Birds
Esther Jansma: Fractal
Paul Van Ostaijen: Mythos
Jan J. Slauerhoff: Homeless
From French
Guillaume Apollinaire: The Mirabeau Bridge, The Gypsy
Charles Baudelaire: The Albatross, Cats, Correspondances, The Enemy, The Revenant, Sepulcher, Invitation for a Voyage
Anne Hébert: As a Woman Bathing, The Piano
Alphonse de Lamartine: The Sails, The Lake
Gérard de Nerval: Anteros, Delfica
Eugène Poitier: The Internationale
Arthur Rimbaud: Sensation
Pierre de Ronsard: "When you are old..."
Paul Valéry: Helen
Verlaine: Moonlight
Théophile de Viau: Ode
From Greek
Anonymous: "The Old Gods Are Dead"
Cassia of Constantinople: Mary Magdalene
Damascius: "This is my body"
Euripides: "Ion in the Delphic Dawn" (Ion.81-111)
Homer: Invocation to the Muse (Odyssey I.1-10), Scylla and Charybdis (Odyssey XII.234-259)
Lucilius: R.I.P., On The Smallness of Things
Menander: Omnia Vanitas
Mesomedes: Hymn to Nemesis
Sappho: To an Unlettered Woman
From German
Walter Arndt: A November Tip
Gottfried August Bürger: From the Peasant to his Illustrious Tyrant
Paul Celan: Death Fugue
Stefan George: You like a flame
Goethe: Elvenking, Found, Near His Beloved, Mignon's Longing, To the Moon, Wayfarer's Evening Song, Sunset Speech from Faust
Hermann Hesse: I love women
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: The Two
Heinrich Heine: "Blue Sapphires Are Those Eyes...", The Lotus Flower, The Pine and the Palm, Lorelei, "The sea was aglitter..."
Rilke: Autumn Day, Entrance, Fall, The Gazelle, Love Song, The Panther,
From Hebrew
The Bible: Exodus [15:1-18] "Song of the Sea", Song of Songs [8:5-7] "The Seal of Love", Psalm 23 "Yahweh the Shepherd", Psalm 137 "By the Streams of Babylon"
Yehuda Amichai: Jerusalem is a Port City, We two joint together- each on our own, Ein Yahav
Mois Benarroch: My Aliya
Hayyim Bialik: "Tonight as I lurked", On The Slaughter, In the Flicker of Sundown
Rachel Bluwstein: The Messenger, My Dead
T. Carmi: Awakening
Solomon Ibn Gabirol: Lines Written in Remembrance
Leah Goldbert: Pine
Amir Gilboa: Stormwind Evening, Isaac
Haim Gouri: Odysseus
Uri-Tzvi Greenberg: Under the Tooth of their Plough
Dalia Hertz: Remembrance, A Day
Judah Halevi: "My Heart Is In The East"
Yitzhak La'or: The Newest Testament
Yocheved Bat-Miriam: From "Cranes from the Threshold"
Samuel Ibn Naghrela (Shmuel HaNagid): Midnight on the Front Line
Amir Or: Miracle
Dan Pagis: Thus It Was Written in Pencil While Pent in the Sealed Railway Car
Gabriel Preil: For The First Time, A First Poem From Jerusalem, Self-Courtesy, Sunset Possibilities, A Little Snow Research, Lakes
Esther Raab: "Today I am Modest"
Tuvia Rübner: Lullaby, Sunflower
Abraham Shlonsky: Toil
Ronny Someck: Handcuffs- A Street Song
Saul Tchernichovsky: The Hawk
David Vogel: Autumn Nights
Avraham Ben Yitzhak: A Lonely Few Say
Nathan Zach: Self-Destruction, I Saw
Zelda: When I Spoke The Blessing
From Italian
Dino Campana: Autumn Garden
Giacomo Leopardi: Infinity
Eugenio Montale: Bagni di Lucca, "Many a year...", "You know this...", "Here is the sign..."
Giovanni Pascoli: Fallen Oak
Petrarch: Sonnet 2, Sonnet 164,
Salvatore Quasimodo: Agrigentum Road
Umberto Saba: Ulysses
From Latin
Catullus: Poem 5 (Vivamus mea Lesbia), Poem 16 (Pedicabo ego vos), Poem 33 (O furum optime), Poem 75 (Huc est mens deducta), Poem 85 (Odi et amo), Poem 101 (Multas per gentes), Poem 105 (Mentula Conatur)
Florindo di Monaco: In Machu Picchu's Mountains
Horace: Ode 1.11. (Tu ne quæsieres), Ode 1.25 (Parcius iunctas), Ode 1.38 (Persicos Odi), Ode 3.30 (Exegi Monumentum), Ode 4.7 (Diffugere nives)
Christian Pawlu: Song for the Millennium
Virgil: On the Solar Apocalypse (Geo.I.461-514), War and a Man (Aen.I.1-11), The Promise of Jupiter (Aen.I.275-296)
Plautus: "What's the matter, master? (Pseud.1-38)
Alain van Dievoet: Epitaph of the Innocent
From Old English
Anonymous: Wulf and Eadwacer
Cædmon: Cædmon's Hymn
From Persian/Tajik
Forugh Farrokhzad: Another Birth, The Gift
Saadi: Ghazal 14: An Aubade
Hafiz: Ghazal 1: Opening, Ghazal 9: Courtly Advice, Ghazal 98: News From Abroad, Ghazal 49: On Time and the Times, Ghazal 136: The Cup of Jamshīd, Ghazal 152: Epiphany, Ghazal 164: Where Have All The Lovers Gone?, Ghazal 336: Death-prayer, Ghazal 388: The Sun and Holy Spirits, "She Stripped..."
Omar Khayyam: "A call came...", "Because my birth was by no choice...", "I want a book of poems..." , "This pot once had a mind..."
Rumi: A Hundred Ways to Pray, Song of the Reed (From the Masnavi)
Sharafaddin Khorasani: Death
Farzana Khojandi: The Flute-Player
From Romanian
Mihai Eminescu: To the Star
Nichita Stǎnescu: Knot 19
From Russian
Anna Akhmatova: Cleopatra, To Death, Lot's Wife, There Are Three Periods of Memory, "They're not my kin...", From "Secrets of the Craft"
Alexander Blok: "Nigh. Streetlamp. Street. The chemist's store.."
Afanasy Fet: "One southern night..."
Mikhail Lermontov: The Dagger, The Dream, The Sail
Osip Mandelstam: Notre Dame
Boris Pasternak: Hamlet, February, Gethsemane
Alexander Pushkin: To The Sea, Conjury, "Bound for your homeland faraway", Stanzas to Tsar Nicholas I, Ode to Liberty, "Bleak Day Has Petered Out", The Prophet, Night, The Upas Tree, "What's in my name for you?", Winter Journey, Freedom's Sower,
Tyutchev: The Sacred Night
From Spanish
Becquer: Rhyme 2, Rhyme 21
Francisco de Quevedo: On the Brevity of Life, Love Constant Beyond Death
Jorge Luis Borges: Ewigkeit, A Rose and Milton, Rain, Everness, To a Saxon Poet
Manuel de Cabral: Tropical Stonecutting
Saint John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul
Federico García Lorca: Dead Boy's Ghazal, Ghazal of the Terrible Presence, The Moon Comes Forth, Song of the Horseman (I), Song of the Horseman (II)
Antonio Machado: Juan de Mairena: a Childhood Memory, "Wayfarer, the only way...", Self-Portrait
Pablo Neruda: Love Poem IV
From Welsh
Grahame Davies: Creator, Gray, Tomb Raider
Huw Meirion Edwards: Lullaby
Ann Griffiths: "Since I am corruptly fallen"
Hedd Wyn: The Black Spot, War
Emyr Lewis: In a Church, Lost Things
T.H. Parry-Williams: Ty'r Ysgol
From Yiddish
Gabriel Preil: The Astounded Pen
Shmuel Halkin: Of Things Past
Anna Margolin: Night Came Into My House, Slender Ships
Judd Teller: Budapest, Minor
Malka Tussman: Speechless Water
Kadya Molodowsky: My Paper Bridge, Letters from the Ghetto
Reyzel Zhychlinsky: A Biblical Night, Poem
Yosl Greenspan: Grand Central Station by Night
Sarah Barkan: Negro Lullaby
Jacob Freedman: God No Longer Speaks
Jacob Glatsein: Mozart, Wagons
Into Old English From Modern English
Tolkien: Song of the Mounds of Mundburg, "Over the land" / "Ligeþ on monde"
Traductions en Français
De l'Anglais
William Blake: Tigre O Tigre
Emily Dickinson: Ce Monde n'est point Conclusion
William Shakespeare: Le Soliloque d'Hamlet
Du Russe
Alexandre Pouchkine: Je vous aimais, Ma Belle Ne Me Chante Plus
Labid Bin Rabīˁa: Lament for Arbad
ˁUmar Ibn Al-Fāriḍ: "Was that Layla's fire..."
Ibn Khafāja: The Mountain Poem
Rabiˁa Al-ˁAdawiyya: Lover of Lovers
Amal Al-Jubouri: Veil of Religions
Adunis: The Seven Days
ˁAbdul-Wahhab Al-Bayati: , Poem for the Man of Light
Mahmoud Darwish: We Travel Like Anyone Else, It is Our Right to Love Autumn, I Am From There, Passport, To My Mother
Rashid Hussein: Without a Passport
Nawal Naffaa: Slip
Nizar Qabbani: Pregnant, "I want...", Still, Refinement by Reading your Body, "Your Love", Like Shahrayar, Take Off Your Clothes
Samih al-Qasim: Not even, The End of a Discussion with a Prison Guard, Buchenwald, Rain on the Newsstand, Kafr Qasim, Travel Tickets
From Catalan
Clementina Arderiu: Song of the Beautiful Trust
Joan Brossa: The Poet Finds a Theme, Night, Time
J.V. Foix: Lord God
Ausiàs March: Poem I, Poem IV, Poem XXVIII
From Chinese
Bao Junhui: Moon Over Frontier Mountains
Bei Ling: Time Like a Fallen Horse
Du Fu: At Fajing Temple, Facing the Snow, Seagulls
Li Bai: Farewell to Meng Haoran, Seeing a Friend Off, Seeing a Friend Off to Shu, Moon Over Frontier Mountains, Longgully Ballad, Thought on a Quiet Night
Li Qingzhao: "My jewelled mat feels autumnal,"
Li Ye: Loving Complaint
Liu Zongyuan: The Song of the Caged Goshawk
Sikong Shu: Goodbye to a Friend Returning North after the Rebellion
Xi Peilan: Crossing the Yangtze
Yu Xuanji: Love letter to Zian
Wang Wei: Impromptu Verses on Life in the Hills, Taking Leave, Deer Park
Wang Zhihuan: Beyond the Border: A Song of Liangzhou
Zhang Jiuling: Brooding on Circumstance: Poem 1
Zhang Rong: Poem of Parting
From Esperanto
William Auld: The Dancing Woman, Elegy in an Old Graveyard, Julia on Pandateria, Snow
Marjorie Boulton: Memnon
Kalman Kalocsay: To a Friend in a POW Camp, Sundown, Murder Age, A Summer Night
Edwin de Kock: Over-understanding, Masterwork
Ludmila Jevsejeva: Autumn Melody
From Dutch
Leonard Nolens: Poem for a Friend
Bernard Dewulf: Alice After Wonderland, Young Son Asleep, Dido's Lament
Charles Ducal: Incomplete
Maurice Gilliams: Dying in Antwerp, Autumn
Herman Gorter: "The trees were there and still", The Silent Road
Luuk Gruwez: Gender
Hubert van Herreweghen: Migrating Birds
Esther Jansma: Fractal
Paul Van Ostaijen: Mythos
Jan J. Slauerhoff: Homeless
From French
Guillaume Apollinaire: The Mirabeau Bridge, The Gypsy
Charles Baudelaire: The Albatross, Cats, Correspondances, The Enemy, The Revenant, Sepulcher, Invitation for a Voyage
Anne Hébert: As a Woman Bathing, The Piano
Alphonse de Lamartine: The Sails, The Lake
Gérard de Nerval: Anteros, Delfica
Eugène Poitier: The Internationale
Arthur Rimbaud: Sensation
Pierre de Ronsard: "When you are old..."
Paul Valéry: Helen
Verlaine: Moonlight
Théophile de Viau: Ode
From Greek
Anonymous: "The Old Gods Are Dead"
Cassia of Constantinople: Mary Magdalene
Damascius: "This is my body"
Euripides: "Ion in the Delphic Dawn" (Ion.81-111)
Homer: Invocation to the Muse (Odyssey I.1-10), Scylla and Charybdis (Odyssey XII.234-259)
Lucilius: R.I.P., On The Smallness of Things
Menander: Omnia Vanitas
Mesomedes: Hymn to Nemesis
Sappho: To an Unlettered Woman
From German
Walter Arndt: A November Tip
Gottfried August Bürger: From the Peasant to his Illustrious Tyrant
Paul Celan: Death Fugue
Stefan George: You like a flame
Goethe: Elvenking, Found, Near His Beloved, Mignon's Longing, To the Moon, Wayfarer's Evening Song, Sunset Speech from Faust
Hermann Hesse: I love women
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: The Two
Heinrich Heine: "Blue Sapphires Are Those Eyes...", The Lotus Flower, The Pine and the Palm, Lorelei, "The sea was aglitter..."
Rilke: Autumn Day, Entrance, Fall, The Gazelle, Love Song, The Panther,
From Hebrew
The Bible: Exodus [15:1-18] "Song of the Sea", Song of Songs [8:5-7] "The Seal of Love", Psalm 23 "Yahweh the Shepherd", Psalm 137 "By the Streams of Babylon"
Yehuda Amichai: Jerusalem is a Port City, We two joint together- each on our own, Ein Yahav
Mois Benarroch: My Aliya
Hayyim Bialik: "Tonight as I lurked", On The Slaughter, In the Flicker of Sundown
Rachel Bluwstein: The Messenger, My Dead
T. Carmi: Awakening
Solomon Ibn Gabirol: Lines Written in Remembrance
Leah Goldbert: Pine
Amir Gilboa: Stormwind Evening, Isaac
Haim Gouri: Odysseus
Uri-Tzvi Greenberg: Under the Tooth of their Plough
Dalia Hertz: Remembrance, A Day
Judah Halevi: "My Heart Is In The East"
Yitzhak La'or: The Newest Testament
Yocheved Bat-Miriam: From "Cranes from the Threshold"
Samuel Ibn Naghrela (Shmuel HaNagid): Midnight on the Front Line
Amir Or: Miracle
Dan Pagis: Thus It Was Written in Pencil While Pent in the Sealed Railway Car
Gabriel Preil: For The First Time, A First Poem From Jerusalem, Self-Courtesy, Sunset Possibilities, A Little Snow Research, Lakes
Esther Raab: "Today I am Modest"
Tuvia Rübner: Lullaby, Sunflower
Abraham Shlonsky: Toil
Ronny Someck: Handcuffs- A Street Song
Saul Tchernichovsky: The Hawk
David Vogel: Autumn Nights
Avraham Ben Yitzhak: A Lonely Few Say
Nathan Zach: Self-Destruction, I Saw
Zelda: When I Spoke The Blessing
From Italian
Dino Campana: Autumn Garden
Giacomo Leopardi: Infinity
Eugenio Montale: Bagni di Lucca, "Many a year...", "You know this...", "Here is the sign..."
Giovanni Pascoli: Fallen Oak
Petrarch: Sonnet 2, Sonnet 164,
Salvatore Quasimodo: Agrigentum Road
Umberto Saba: Ulysses
From Latin
Catullus: Poem 5 (Vivamus mea Lesbia), Poem 16 (Pedicabo ego vos), Poem 33 (O furum optime), Poem 75 (Huc est mens deducta), Poem 85 (Odi et amo), Poem 101 (Multas per gentes), Poem 105 (Mentula Conatur)
Florindo di Monaco: In Machu Picchu's Mountains
Horace: Ode 1.11. (Tu ne quæsieres), Ode 1.25 (Parcius iunctas), Ode 1.38 (Persicos Odi), Ode 3.30 (Exegi Monumentum), Ode 4.7 (Diffugere nives)
Christian Pawlu: Song for the Millennium
Virgil: On the Solar Apocalypse (Geo.I.461-514), War and a Man (Aen.I.1-11), The Promise of Jupiter (Aen.I.275-296)
Plautus: "What's the matter, master? (Pseud.1-38)
Alain van Dievoet: Epitaph of the Innocent
From Old English
Anonymous: Wulf and Eadwacer
Cædmon: Cædmon's Hymn
From Persian/Tajik
Forugh Farrokhzad: Another Birth, The Gift
Saadi: Ghazal 14: An Aubade
Hafiz: Ghazal 1: Opening, Ghazal 9: Courtly Advice, Ghazal 98: News From Abroad, Ghazal 49: On Time and the Times, Ghazal 136: The Cup of Jamshīd, Ghazal 152: Epiphany, Ghazal 164: Where Have All The Lovers Gone?, Ghazal 336: Death-prayer, Ghazal 388: The Sun and Holy Spirits, "She Stripped..."
Omar Khayyam: "A call came...", "Because my birth was by no choice...", "I want a book of poems..." , "This pot once had a mind..."
Rumi: A Hundred Ways to Pray, Song of the Reed (From the Masnavi)
Sharafaddin Khorasani: Death
Farzana Khojandi: The Flute-Player
From Romanian
Mihai Eminescu: To the Star
Nichita Stǎnescu: Knot 19
From Russian
Anna Akhmatova: Cleopatra, To Death, Lot's Wife, There Are Three Periods of Memory, "They're not my kin...", From "Secrets of the Craft"
Alexander Blok: "Nigh. Streetlamp. Street. The chemist's store.."
Afanasy Fet: "One southern night..."
Mikhail Lermontov: The Dagger, The Dream, The Sail
Osip Mandelstam: Notre Dame
Boris Pasternak: Hamlet, February, Gethsemane
Alexander Pushkin: To The Sea, Conjury, "Bound for your homeland faraway", Stanzas to Tsar Nicholas I, Ode to Liberty, "Bleak Day Has Petered Out", The Prophet, Night, The Upas Tree, "What's in my name for you?", Winter Journey, Freedom's Sower,
Tyutchev: The Sacred Night
From Spanish
Becquer: Rhyme 2, Rhyme 21
Francisco de Quevedo: On the Brevity of Life, Love Constant Beyond Death
Jorge Luis Borges: Ewigkeit, A Rose and Milton, Rain, Everness, To a Saxon Poet
Manuel de Cabral: Tropical Stonecutting
Saint John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul
Federico García Lorca: Dead Boy's Ghazal, Ghazal of the Terrible Presence, The Moon Comes Forth, Song of the Horseman (I), Song of the Horseman (II)
Antonio Machado: Juan de Mairena: a Childhood Memory, "Wayfarer, the only way...", Self-Portrait
Pablo Neruda: Love Poem IV
From Welsh
Grahame Davies: Creator, Gray, Tomb Raider
Huw Meirion Edwards: Lullaby
Ann Griffiths: "Since I am corruptly fallen"
Hedd Wyn: The Black Spot, War
Emyr Lewis: In a Church, Lost Things
T.H. Parry-Williams: Ty'r Ysgol
From Yiddish
Gabriel Preil: The Astounded Pen
Shmuel Halkin: Of Things Past
Anna Margolin: Night Came Into My House, Slender Ships
Judd Teller: Budapest, Minor
Malka Tussman: Speechless Water
Kadya Molodowsky: My Paper Bridge, Letters from the Ghetto
Reyzel Zhychlinsky: A Biblical Night, Poem
Yosl Greenspan: Grand Central Station by Night
Sarah Barkan: Negro Lullaby
Jacob Freedman: God No Longer Speaks
Jacob Glatsein: Mozart, Wagons
Into Old English From Modern English
Tolkien: Song of the Mounds of Mundburg, "Over the land" / "Ligeþ on monde"
Traductions en Français
De l'Anglais
William Blake: Tigre O Tigre
Emily Dickinson: Ce Monde n'est point Conclusion
William Shakespeare: Le Soliloque d'Hamlet
Du Russe
Alexandre Pouchkine: Je vous aimais, Ma Belle Ne Me Chante Plus
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