Percy Bysshe Shelley

                        Kanto *

Funebra sidas sur la vintra branĉo
Vidvina, trista gru’:
Super ĝi vent’ kun frosta tranĉo,
sub ĝi glacia flu’.

Nenia floro sur la kalva tero,
Nudas la arb’, sen tril’,
Silento pendas en l’aero
Kaj zumo de muelil’.

                       A Song **

A widow bird sate mourning for her love
Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above,
The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare.
No flower upon the ground,
And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel’s sound.

* Tradukis Lajos Tárkony, en Angla Antologio 2, red. Albert Goodheir (London: Esperanto Association of Britain, 1987), p. 72.

** This title appears in The Minor Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Edward Moxon, 1846). The poem comprises two stanzas in Charles the First.