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

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

Gift of the Poem | Canticle of Saint John | 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 | Little Air I | Little Air II | Little Air (warlike) | Sonnet | Sonnet Allegorical of Itself  | The Tomb of Charles Baudelaire | Hommage | All Pride takes a smoke at evening | Arisen from the rump and jump | Self-abolishes a dentelle | 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

 

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 | 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 | Pauca Mihi | Bibliophobes

 

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 | 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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Riches | 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