with Lighter Heart

Where is it written, because you speak one language you can not appreciate the words and sentiments of those who speak and write in another? It isn't, so here goes . . .

'Dancer'

Apache

Anon ~ Apache Love Poem

Anon ~ Poor Mountain Hut

China

Anon ~ Plucking Rushes

Li Po ~ Lament of the Frontier Guard

Japan

Basho [ Matsuo Kinsaku ] ~ Summer Grass

Lady Nakatomi ~ Pearl Diver

Russia

Alexandra Feodorovna ~ Whispering Mirrors ~ A Prayer
[ NB: Like many uppper-class of her era, the Empress wrote in French and English ]

Sweden

Par Lagerkvist ~ Låt min skugga försvinna i din.
[ with english translation ]

Ireland ( written in Gaelic )

Antoine Ó Raifteirí ~ Misé Raifteirí
[ with english translation ]

Seamus O'Niell ~ Subh Milis
[ with english translation ]

India

Vikram Seth ~ All You Who Sleep Tonight

Rabindranath Tagore ~ Duty was Joy

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