For the upcoming season, from Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin.
from Autumn / by Ngo Chi Lan (Vietnamese, 15th Century)
The fragrance gone from the ten-foot lotus
by the Heavenly Well.
15th-Century Poetry
DPF / Anonymous
For apples, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Adam Lay I-bounden / by Anonymous (ca. 15th Century)
Ne hadde the apple take been, the apple taken been,
Ne hadde never our Lady aye been Heaven’s queen.
DPF / Gambara
From Italy, for time, from The Penguin Book of Women Poets, edited by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe and Kathleen Weaver (1978).
from When I see the earth ornate and lovely / by Veronica Gambara (1485-?) translated by Brenda Webster
Even this meadow now green and blossoming
before was full of snow
Daily Poetry Fragments {Semi-Daily} 