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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
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
A LIGHT! a light! rise up, be swift;
I seize, I worship, and I lift
The bridal torches' festal ray...
poem by Euripides
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
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before

The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wal...
poem by John Milton
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness....
quote by D. H. Lawrence
Stille, hjerte, sol går ned
(Heart be still, the sun goes down)

Heart; be still, the sun goes d...
poem by Jeppe Aakjaer
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
I stand aloft on the balcony,
The starlings around me crying,
And let like maenad my hair st...
poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Strumicki Carnival

March 8th, 2011
Strumica, Macedonia

The Strumica Carnival is an annual fes...
article by Daniel
The vintage, friends, is over,
And here sweet wine makes, once again,
Sad eyes and hearts recove...
poem by France Preseren
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
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly
And, here and there, a passer-by
Show...
poem by Oscar Wilde
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
One day Mamma said "Conrad dear,
I must go out and leave you here.
But mind now, Conrad, what...
poem by Heinrich Hoffmann
Love is essential.
Sex, mere accident.
Can be equal
Or different.
A man's not an animal:
Is a f...
poem by Fernando Pessoa
My child, I dare not, over you,
To start the blessing’s simple citation.
You’re – with your ...
poem by Alexander Pushkin
Distant sea, do you know your mystery?...
There, upon your shore,
the smallest dream of man
does ...
poem by Emilio Prados
I wanted to go fishing one day,
I felt a little despondent.
I made between the cat\'s tails
with...
poem by Martinus Nijhoff
A box with paints from childhood's time:
The colors of town are earth and grime.
An old worker a...
poem by Julian Tuwim
The invisible particles of the air
quiver and ignite around me;
the sky dissolves into rays of gol...
poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
When night comes
I stand on the steps and listen,
stars swarm in the yard
and I stand in the dark...
poem by Edith Sodergran
My Pillow gazes upon me at night
Empty as a gravestone;
I never thought it would be so bitter
To ...
poem by Hermann Hesse
'Tis an eerie thing o'er the moor to fare
When the eddies of peat-smoke justle,
When the wra...
poem by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
We pledged our hearts, my love and I,
I in my arms the maiden clasping;
I could not tell the reaso...
poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A shepherd shearing sheep one day
Declaimed most zealously
Upon the care was ta’en of sh...
poem by Ignacy Krasicki
A patriot be - for knowledge, freedom,
The soul's too small a price to pay!
Mind you, not his soul...
poem by Hristo Botev
Write me what you're wearing! Is it warm?
Write me how you lie! Do you lie there softly?
Write me ...
poem by Bertolt Brecht
Strange father!
Your children will not let you down,
they are coming across the earth with the foo...
poem by Edith Sodergran
Don't fear death in earthly travels.
Don't fear enemies or friends.
Just listen to the words of ...
poem by Alexander Blok
You brothers, who are mine,
Poor people, near and far,
Longing for every star,
Dream of relief fr...
poem by Hermann Hesse
To Archimedes once a scholar came,
"Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;â...
poem by Friedrich Schiller
There is a gentle thought that often springs
to life in me, because it speaks of you.
Its reasonin...
poem by Dante Alighieri
But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished
the existence of the individual; the relati...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Let others speak of her shame,
I speak of my own.

O Germany, pale mother!
How soiled you are...
poem by Bertolt Brecht
Love's twilight wanes in heaven above,
On earth ere twilight reigns:
Ere fear may feel the chill t...
poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward,
strong beyond the garden-wall!
Butterfly, why do you settle o...
poem by D. H. Lawrence

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