Original translations
 

 

French:
 

'Phaedra's Confession' from Phaedra - Racine

From Act III Scene VII, Tartuffe - Molière

Sonnet XVIII - Louise Labé

The Cicada and the Ant - Jean de la Fontaine

To the Reader - Charles Baudelaire

The Albatross - Charles Baudelaire

To A Woman Passing By - Charles Baudelaire

Sleeper in the Valley - Arthur Rimbaud

Autumn Song - Paul Verlaine

'The Nose Tirade' from Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand

Graveyard by the Sea - Paul Valéry

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Spanish:

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Dark Night of the Soul - Saint John of the Cross

To a Nose - Francisco de Quevedo

New England, 1967 - Jorge Luis Borges

What is Lost - Jorge Luis Borges

Moon – Jorge Luis Borges

Explaining a few things - Pablo Neruda

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Portuguese:
 

I – Florbela Espanca

 

Italian:

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Canto I, Inferno - Dante

I have no war to make but find no peace - Petrarch

If This is a Man - Primo Levi

 

Latin:

Ode 1.11 - Horace

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Romanian:

 

Loredana - Deniz Otay

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German:

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Sonnet to Orpheus 3 - Rilke

Erlkönig - Goethe
 

Classical Chinese:
 

Missing Shenchi, A Letter for My Brother Zi Zhan - Su Zhe

In Response to Ziyou's Nostalgic Poem - Su Shi

Don't Listen to Raindrops through the Branches - Su Shi

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