I

Guillaume Apollinaire

A phantom of clouds | Tower | Across Europe | At Nîmes | Vigil | Shadow | They called her Wolfie | Reconnaissance | War | Mutation | Oracles | The palace of thunder | Fuse | Training | Departure | The vinegrower of Champagne | Postcard | Memories | The future | A bird is singing | Chevaux-de-frise | Song of honor | Platoon leader | Star sorrow | Victory | Hunting-Horns

 

René Arcos

Maybe all is not lost

 

Charles Baudelaire

Incompatibility | I have not to my mistress | In the album of Madame Émile Chevalet | Don Juan in hell | The Hair | You would have the whole universe in your ruelle | chit-chat | To a Creole Lady | landscape | The Swan | The Seven Elders | Danse Macabre | The setting of the Romantic sun | To Her Who Is Too Gay | Metamorphoses of the Vampire | The Eyes of Bertha | Apropos an Importuner | The Caution | Musings | The Offended Moon | Pride (fragment)

Widows | Cake | Beautiful Dorothy | The Gallant Shot | Soup and clouds | Shooting gallery and graveyard

 

André Breton

Age | Capercaillies | A less than solid house | Funny money | Parchment love | And it is a penal colony | All paradise isn’t lost | The sun lets it | Knot made of mirrors | Curtain curtain | The vertebral sphinx | Eyes of zinzolin | It was coming on | And movement | I hear the beaches there are black | World | Hunt them all | The House of Yves | Tease | Level crossing | More than suspect | The Breakwater | Bearer-girl without burden | Uli | Dukduk | Tiki | Rano Raraku | Ear to the shell | I return | On the road to San Romano

 

René Char

Torch of the Prodigal | The violent rose | Common presence | Lively tomorrow | Post-scriptum | Clement force | Don't go along | I dwell in a grief | Jacquemard and Julia | Give them back | Threshold | The Sorgue | Conduct | You did well to leave, Arthur Rimbaud! | Le Thor | Allegiance | Magdalen with the Smoking Flame | The first moments | Lichens | The rose’s brow | The inventors | To the riverdwellers of the Sorgue | The window | Recall |  The Lords of Maussane |  But who shall stablish round us once again | Victory lightning | Pyrenees | The viperling | Tradition of the meteor | Effacement of the poplar | Fighters | Escheat | The scattered term | Sleep in the Lupercalia | Glimpsed | Bestiary in my clover | To declare its name

On Poesy

 

Jean Cocteau

Down with the earth | Angel sticking his tongue out | Games but marvels | King Œdipus | The Bust | The Greek Drama | Insomnia or Pigeon-Terror | Discovery of the sphinx’s paws| Martingale | No Man’s Land | Lifters of children | Oh! la! la! | Danger of writing on statues | Photographs of Berenice | The Theater of Jean Cocteau | The Oracle | Angel, let me | When my heirs | I don’t like to sleep | Bed of love, stop here | Your laughter slightly curling | Unto love I return | I want to suffer no more | I don’t travel much | Candidly, I’d thought | We must make haste | Alas! shall I now | I can hardly bear | Auric, Milhaud, Poulenc

The Two-Headed Eagle

 

Robert Desnos

The cemetery | Lying down

 

Marcel Duchamp

with hidden noise

 

Paul Eluard

Nakedness of truth | Victory of Guernica | Nor leaden crime | Sunup I adore you | To chance | To be caught in the trap | One | The Earth is blue as an orange | Morality of sleep | The poet's work | Ungilt blazon of my dreams

 

Théophile Gautier

The Spring | The supper of armor | The watch | The Nereids | Carmen | Noël | The Egyptian woman | Turtledove out of grace

 

Philippe Jaccottet

Interior | Winter's end

 

Max Jacob

In the hill country | Breton song | Graveyard | The little servingmaid | Lullaby | Mousk and Sousk | Poem of the moon | Love of one’s neighbor

 

Alfred Jarry

Have fear and feel you dread of the Master of Phynances | Shoesie | Shoesie (Second version)

 

Valéry Larbaud

Ode | Poems of A.O. Barnabooth

 

Stéphane Mallarmé

anguish | Gift of the Poem | Canticle of Saint John | the hair a soaring flame | Funeral Toast | Prose (for Des Esseintes) | Fan (of Madam Mallarmé’s) | Other Fan (of Miss Mallarmé’s) | A lady's fan | Album Leaf | Rememoration of Belgian Friends | Rondels | The Glazier | to Whistler | Little Air I | Little Air II | Little Air (warlike) | Sonnet | Sonnet Allegorical of Itself  | tomb of Edgar Poe  | The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire | Hommage | All Pride takes a smoke at evening | Arisen from the rump and jump | Abolishes a dentelle | what silk | Fans | For a Baptism | Toast

Leisures of the Mail
Rue, at 23, Ballu | Neath your warm Inverness cape | Pages, if you do not graze | Paris, at Madame Méry

The Future Phenomenon | Autumn Plaint | Wintry Shiver | Poor Pallid Child | The Fairground Declaration | The Demon of Analogy

 

Stuart Merrill

Nocturne | Ballet | A night, under the moon of choler | My soul, within a rose | The moribund City | The visitation of Love

 

Gérard de Nerval

Delfica | The Armed Head | To Hélène de Mecklembourg | To Madame Sand | To Madame Ida Dumas | Myrtho | To Louise d’Or, Queen | To Madame Aguado | The Grandmother | The Girl Cousin | Pensée de Byron | Spain | Chorus of Love | Montenegrin Song | Subterranean Chorus | The Serenade | Go from me | Romance

 

Saint-John Perse

Crusoe Images | Birds

 

Francis Picabia

Hollow ceilings | Religious pope | Cry | Little zebra | Labyrinth | Turkish delights | Electric globes | Nearly done | Belladonna | Mouths | Easel bride | Pillow kit | Petulance | Chausson de visière | Void | Every single day | Personality | Happiness | Cuddly druggist | Laugh | Change of gears | Divots | Substance | In Switzerland | Oneeyed | Sense of smell | Anecdote | Wireless telegraphy | Dessert | Oxygenated | Teapot of butter | Odor

 

Arthur Rimbaud

Hanged Men’s Ball | To Music | Novel | Dead of Ninety-two | Evil | Faun’s Head | Vowels | Stars wept | Memory | “What’s that to us?” | Tear | The River of Cassis | Comedy of thirst | Good Thought in the Morning | Song of the highest tower | Harken to it troat

Ancient animals | Drunken coachman | Little swine | Paris | The old woman’s old man | Lips shut | Gallant feast | The accursed cherub  | Lilies | Humanity was shoeing | I took a third-class car | Without doubt I prefer | State of Siege?

A Heart Under a Cassock | The deserts of love | Four Johannine Meditations

A Season in Hell | The Illuminations

 

Pierre de Ronsard

Ode to Cassandra | Ode to the Skylark | Love Prisoner of the Muses (Ode)

 

Tristan Tzara

the great complaint of my obscurity one | the great complaint of my obscurity two | glass traverse peaceable | the great complaint of my obscurity three | cold yellow | the lion-tamer remembers | spring | night sun | touch me just touch me | dance rubber glass | land see white | jump white crystal | small town in siberia | depot | the hour brother | remarks | wrong desire key of vertigo | To make a Dadaist poem

 

Paul Valéry

The Spinster | Helen | Au Bois Dormant | Cæsar | The Amicable Wood | The Vain Dancers | Episode | Sunup | To the Plane-tree | Canticle of Columns | Bee | Poetry | Steps | The Girdle | Sylph  | La Fausse Morte | Pomegranates | Interior | Rower | Palm | Snow | Colloquy | The Distracted One | The Insinuating II | Hour | The Bird cruel... | At sunup... | Equinox | The Caress | Song inward | The Philosopher and the “Young Fate”

 

Paul Verlaine

Resignation | After Three Years | Wish | Parisian Sketch | Seascape | In the Woods | Parisian Nocturne | Malines | Streets | I arrived a calm orphan | Boarders | To Princess Roukine | Seguidilla | In the Style of Paul Verlaine | Sappho Ballade | To Stéphane Mallarmé | To E... | To Arthur Rimbaud | To Mlle. Adele | Ballade in Favor of Those Called Decadents and Symbolists | The boredom of having to live with people and amid things | Horrible night of sleeplessness! | Holy Innocents | Nascita di Venere | L’Art poétique ad hoc | Literature | Anecdote | And Last | Logic | Misdeeds of the Moon | Bibliophobes | Pauca Mihi

 

Charles Vildrac

Song of the Despairing

 

 

II

Akahito, Buson, Bashō, Shikibu, Teika, etc.

I would lend a frock | haikaï | from Buson | a mere blade of grass | four poems of Ki no Tsurayuki | four poems of Izumi Shikibu | three tanka of Fujiwara Teika |

from The Kokinshū

 

Takdir Alisjahbana

Everything I see... | Rencounter

 

Chairil Anwar

Me (Exaltation) | The two of us | Adieu | Vainly | Jesus | Prayer | Resignation | Me and my companion | Song for whistling, I | Song for whistling, II | To the painter Affandi | Welcome | My love is faroff on an island... | At the mosque | Freedom

 

S.M. Ardan

Morning at the river | With two girls

 

Hans Arp

In the Hopeless | The Second Hand

 

Hr. Bandaharo

Sarinah and I | Leave me... | Hibiscus flower

 

Gottfried Benn

Vase of Crete | Palau | Darker— | One Word | Poem

 

Jorge Luis Borges

Everness | To a coin | Limits | Milonga of Don Nicanor Paredes | Two versions of “Ritter, Tod und Teufel | Tigers’ gold | To a cat | I | To the nightingale | A bust of Janus speaks | The moon

 

Bertolt Brecht

The Mask of Evil | exception and rule | from Letters About Things Read

 

Callinus

bone-idle sit you there when will you find some guts

 

Ion Caraion

How do you sleep when no-one’s awake | I who am no-one | Only mankind | Farewell gesture | Country of dreariness | Confession | Anamorphoses | Superb spectacles | Conquered treasure

 

Paul Celan

Late and Deep | Corona | I am alone | Death Fugue | Still Life

 

Wang Chi

at a public house

 

Richard Dehmel

Likeness | Many Nights

 

Ruggero Deodato

Image of a man and of a father | Working | The actress you love | A producer friend

 

Rustam Effendi

Pond

 

Forugh Farrokhzad

Sin

 

Édouard Glissant

Cold Weather Vertigo

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Beaker

 

Ivan Goll

Creation | The Salt Lake | Morgue | Job

 

Andreas Gryphius

the vanity of the world

 

Amal Hamzah

The Angel of Death

 

Amir Hamzah

The current bears me off | I’ve come back down | Full Moon | The Bay of Jayakatra | Kamadevi, Goddess of Desire | My heart sings

 

Heinrich Heine

To my Mother

 

Hermann Hesse

Creed | In the Fog | Transitoriness | Ecstasy

 

Georg Heym

God of the City | Your eyelashes, great long ones | Middle of Winter

 

Nazim Hikmet

apologia | Lies and Your Hands | Sofia | Icebreaker | Vera

 

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

On seeing a dead body amid the rocks of Samine in Sanuki |
Parting from his wife at Iwami for the capital | the ruins of Ōmi

 

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

forespring | Experience | Terza Rima on Transitoriness, III

 

Horace

ode (the golden mids) | town mouse country mouse

 

Intojo

where is true love found... ? | Science | fate

 

Franz Kafka

There is | How many words | Little Soul | We knew not really | That is a sight

 

Erich Kästner

The Evolution of Mankind | Confession of a Poet | Monologue of the Blind Man | Real-Life Romance | Contemporaries, heapwise

 

Karl Kraus

Militarism | Adventure of the Work

 

Federico García Lorca

Seven Children’s Songs

 

Martial

epigrams

 

Gabriela Mistral

Sensitive | I have been kissed

 

Shūji Miya

The Shanxi

 

Vladimir Nabokov

freedom | Blazon | Soft Sound | What happened overnight | To Prince S.M. Kachurin | Defective Iambics

 

Pablo Neruda

Enigma with a flower | Other gods | The bellringer | The central hand | I don’t know anything | A beetle | The sick man sunbathes | Slums (Sad tune) | Song | The gift | A house | Near the knives | Fire | Today is also | Always to be born | Yesterday | Devilkins | To die | Falling | High sea in 1968: Pacific Ocean | Sex | The enemy | Wayfaring ways | Song with landscape and river | Landscape | Poetic arts (I) | Silence | Unity | Falls the flower | Water | Reason | Tree | Animal | Bees (I) | Bees (II) | Dog | Another dog | Fish | Bestiary (I) | Autumn | Foundations | The man who sought | Conditions | Forever me | The century dies | Returning | Turn turning | Of hardening the earth | Silence concentrates | When topaz is touched | The square arrives at crystal falling | One must speak clearly of what are clearly stones | Lichen on stone

 

Paul Novis

True copy | Chiaroscuro | Dilemma | Insomnias | The suitors | In the glimmer of flames | Mandragor | Blind | Merchant of odor | Men of merit | Concession | Reptiles | The freedman | Consenting | L’oiseau fou | Day and night | The grand pardon | Egocentrism | Tentamen

 

Armijn Pane

I am a workman | Humble jobs are not to be despised | Still raining | New crescent

 

Sanusi Pane

Love

 

Po Chü-i

The dragon of the black pool | citizens of Tao-chou | shipboard: reading Yüan Chēn | to a painter | on the river | vanity | climbing Kuan-yin Terrace to view the city | easefulness

 

Rahulabhadra

pæan to wisdom transcendent

 

C.-F. Ramuz

The Soldier's Tale

 

Rainer Maria Rilke

Sonnets to Orpheus
I.20 | II.3 | II.19

 

Ajip Rosidi

Repulse | Kidnapping | Lad and lass | Picnic

 

S. Rukiah

Not up to it | Inspiration II | The old room | A flower

 

Asrul Sani

Sea eagle | A mother's letter

 

Friedrich von Schiller

To My Friends All

 

Arnold Schoenberg

Inhibition | The Law

 

Sitor Situmorang

Samosir Island | Stone highway to the lake | Birds | Jakarta | Saint-Germain-des-Prés | Straight and narrow | Mme Omnes | Rain | A chamber | His shrine | Silk nights | Chartres Cathedral | Paris April | Eiffel Tower | Waking | La Ronde II | La Ronde III | Deep down in the soul | Pastorale | Pilgrimage to a mountain shrine

 

Solon

politics

 

Igor Stravinsky

Nuptials

 

J.E. Tatengkeng

In the bud | Sunday morning call

 

St. Therese of Lisieux

A Celebrated Holy Doctor

 

Georg Trakl

Soul of life | Transfigured autumn | Rondel | Whispered in the afternoon | Humankind | Autumn of the lonely man | To the dumbstruck | Occidental song | Plaint | Grodek

 

Ch’ēn Tzŭ-ang

businessmen

 

Giuseppe Ungaretti

Vigil | A dove

 

Franz Werfel

As your ways shot me seventh-spherewards | Strangers are we on earth one and all | Smile Breathe Walk | Gloom | Veni creator spiritus

 

General Su Wu

to his wife

 

various

courage (Tyrtaeus)

Xenophanes (after Lattimore)

here you say Charaxos nears (Sappho)

scraps of Alcman

cento

Juvenalia

more Juvenalia

furthermore Juvenalia

sayings of Confucius

wisdom transcendent heart sutra

Joshua 2-3

psalm

lamentations

Jonah

John 4:4-26

A scholar

Ut dixit Finn úa Baíscni

A scribe in the woods

 

 

III

a play of the Ming dynasty

Desire for Life