The silent road
the glowing moonlit road—
the trees
the oh so still and aged trees—
the water
the gently tautened contented water,
And beyond, far off, the sunken sky
with the stars’ wheedling cry.
From: Gorter, Herman, Poems of 1890: A Selection, 2015, UCL Press, p. 33.
(https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g69z4p.3)
Date: 1890 (original in Dutch); 2015 (translation in English)
By: Herman Gorter (1864-1927)
Translated by: Paul Vincent (19??- )
From Troubles of The World 