One of Sappho’s Love Songs
now in my
heart I
see clearly
a beautiful
face
shining,
etched
by love.
(translated by Willis Barnestone)
Tzu Yeh’s Lament
All night I could not sleep
because of the moonlight on my bed.
I kept hearing a voice calling:
out of Nowhere, Nothing answered “yes.”
(translated by Arthur Whaley)
Anonymous Sanskrit Song
When he comes back
to my arms
I’ll make him feel
what nobody ever felt
everywhere
me
vanishing into him
like water
into the clay of a new jar
(translated by W.S. Merwin and Moussaieff Masson)
THE POETRY PLACE 