Life and the Ideal by Friedrich Schiller
Listen to the full poem off the page here. Forever calm and fair and crystal clear Flows life upon Olympus’ tranquil plains, Among its...
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- Nov 1
- 2 min
Palme
After Valéry Barely softening the shock Of his terrifying grace An angel sets upon my table The tender bread, the level milk; With the...
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- Oct 5
- 2 min
The Feast of Belshazzar by Heinrich Heine
The midnight hour had fallen on The hushed city of Babylon. And yet within its castle walls The vassals thronged throughout the halls....
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- Sep 23
- 1 min
Three Heine Poems
Ich glaub nicht an den Himmel I don’t believe in Heaven, Whose peace the preacher cites: I only trust your eyes now, They’re my heavenly...
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- Sep 11
- 3 min
The Ring of Polycrates by Friedrich Schiller
Listen to the Ring of Polycrates here He stood on the ancient battlements, Proudly gazing from the parapets On Samos, over which he...
Translation
- Aug 28
- 2 min
Rapture by Stefan George
Rapture I feel another planet's air. So faded are these faces in the dark That had turned to me in care. And the trees and paths I loved...
Translation
- Aug 24
- 4 min
The Last Voyage of Ulysses
Inferno - Canto XXVI Rejoice, oh Florence! You who are so grand that through nations and oceans your fame wings, and in Inferno see your...
Translation
- Jul 18
- 1 min
A ciascun’alma presa, e gentil core by Dante Alighieri
To every gentle heart true Love may move, And unto whom my words must now be brought For wise interpretation’s tender thought, I greet...
Translation
- Jul 2
- 25 min
Vie de Beethoven
Vie de Beethoven” by Romain Rolland was published for the first time in January 1903. Translation was done by Diana Stockwell in January...
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- Jun 25
- 1 min
Piu di me lieta non si vede a terra by Francesco Petrarch
There is no other happier than I, Neither shipwrecked who finally reached land, Washed up and shivering, ready to die, And humbled on his...
The Editors
- Jun 20
- 3 min
Renaissance Roundtable: Is A Renaissance Possible Today?
In our age of accelerated technological progress, rapid mobility, and lightspeed communication, our world may appear more complex than...
Translation
- Jun 18
- 2 min
Grief II by Stefan George
Grief II The wood cries of woe. He dressed himself in fresh leaves without cause. The forest floor waited for you to bless it. But since...
Translation
- May 5
- 2 min
"Im Fruhling" Set by Franz Schubert
I sit here lonely on a hill Where skies are clear and blue; The sunset casts a glowing veil Over the deep and tranquil dale— I used to...
Translation
- May 1
- 1 min
May Song by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
How brightly nature Shines this morning! See the glowing sun! Hear the fields sing! The fragrant buds burst From each green frond! A...
Translation
- Apr 11
- 2 min
Best of Native American Poetry Translations by Michael R. Burch
Speak less thunder, wield more lightning. — Apache proverb Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
Translation
- Apr 2
- 4 min
Three Poems by Gabriele D'Annunzio
A Genre Picture The evening’s mild: darlings play, singing under the balconies; in the bars, headlong on wings, toasts and good bottles...
Translation
- Mar 19
- 3 min
The Poet's Function by Victor Hugo
God summons him in times awry, When each must rise and each must serve, But shame on him who hopes to hide, Or wanders off into the...
Translation
- Feb 9
- 1 min
Der Tod das ist die kühle Nacht by Heinrich Heine
Death is the cooling night, Life is the sultry day. But now darkness settles And I long for respite. Outside my window there looms a...
Translation
- Jan 26
- 1 min
The Commencement of a New Century by Friedrich Schiller
Dear friend! Alas, to where has peace now flown? And when will Freedom find a resting place? The century has vanished with the storm, A...
Translation
- Jan 8
- 6 min
Le Dolci Rime d’Amor ch’i Solia
The sweeter songs I sang in earlier days Must now be left behind, Along with all my gentler strains of mind, Although they may return,...
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