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The hue of the cherry
fades too quickly from sight
all for nothing
this body of mine grows old --...
poem by Ono no Komachi
If I had an eagle's wings
I would rise and fly on them
To our shores, to our own parts,
To See St...
poem by Konstantin Miladinov
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorou...
poem by William Shakespeare
While I don't see you, I don't shed a tear
I never lose my senses when you're near,
But, with ou...
poem by Adam Mickiewicz
By gates of Eden, Angel, gentle,
Shone with his softly drooped head,
And Demon, gloomy and resentf...
poem by Alexander Pushkin
Thinking about Holland,
I see broad rivers
moving slowly through
endless lowlands.
rows of unthi...
poem by Hendrik Marsman
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
with...
poem by D. H. Lawrence
If you see a hill of foam
It is my poetry that you see:
My poetry is a mountain
And is also a fea...
poem by Jose Marti
I like that you are crazy not with me,
I like that I’m not with you crazy, either,
That ne’er ...
poem by Marina Tsvetaeva
When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge....
poem by Constantine Petrou Cavafy, 1911
Dark swallows will return
to hang their nests on your balcony
and again with their wings will rap ...
poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
(An excerpt from the epic The Baptism at The Savica)

The warring clouds have vanished from the sk...
poem by France Preseren
I have always known
That at last I would
Take this road, but yesterday
I did not know that it ...
poem by Ariwara no Narihira
That pretty girl--
munching and rustling
the wrapped-up rice cake....
poem by Kobayashi Issa
A LIGHT! a light! rise up, be swift;
I seize, I worship, and I lift
The bridal torches' festal ray...
poem by Euripides
Oh, Marcia,
I want your long blonde beauty
to be taught in high school,
so kids will learn tha...
poem by Richard Brautigan
Coolness--
the sound of the bell
as it leaves the bell....
poem by Yosa Buson
She is standing on my eyelids
And her hair is in my hair
She has the color of my eye
She has t...
poem by Paul Eluard
Well (thou´ll say) hearing stars! Certainly
Thou´ve lost your mind!" And I´ll say to thee, ...
poem by Olavo Bilac
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before

The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wal...
poem by John Milton
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sle...
poem by Langston Hughes
I did not have this face of today
So calm
So sad
So thin.

Nor these eyes so empty
Nor this bi...
poem by Cecilia Meireles
I love my land, but with a queer passion,
My mind isn't able to absorb it, yet!
Nor glory, purchas...
poem by Mikhail Lermontov
Stille, hjerte, sol går ned
(Heart be still, the sun goes down)

Heart; be still, the sun goes d...
poem by Jeppe Aakjaer
I stand aloft on the balcony,
The starlings around me crying,
And let like maenad my hair st...
poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
The vintage, friends, is over,
And here sweet wine makes, once again,
Sad eyes and hearts recove...
poem by France Preseren
I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sle...
poem by Langston Hughes
It would be good to give much thought, before
you try to find words for something so lost,
for tho...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Below Mirabeau Bridge flows River Seine
Just like our loves.
Must one recall it to my mind that ...
poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
I have shut my windows.
I do not want to hear the weeping.
But from behind the grey walls.
Nothin...
poem by Federico García Lorca
What means for you my simple name?
It soon will die as voice of grief --
A wave splash at a distan...
poem by Alexander Pushkin
It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
...
poem by Langston Hughes
When all the stars are sown
Across the night-blue space,
With the immense unknown,
In silence ...
poem by Bliss Carman
Press my breasts,
Part the veil of mystery,
A flower blooms there,
Crimson and fragrant....
poem by Akiko Yosano
My sweet, here at the foot o fyour last bed
In which you're resting now from your long life,
I've ...
poem by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly
And, here and there, a passer-by
Show...
poem by Oscar Wilde
Now I understand!
When to remember me
She vowed,
She said she would forget me,
But kindly!...
poem by Saigyo Hoshi
UP and lead the dance of Fate!
Lift the song that mortals hate!
Tell what rights are ours on earth...
poem by Aeschylus
Has my heart gone to sleep?
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the...
poem by Antonio Machado
I want to go with the one I love.
I do not want to calculate the cost.
I do not want to think ab...
poem by Bertolt Brecht