Selected famous foreign short poems include:
1. "If Life Deceived You"
Pushkin (Russia)
If Life has deceived you, don't be sad or impatient!
Calm down is needed in melancholy days.
Believe it, happy days will come!
My heart is always looking forward to the future; but now I am always melancholy.
Everything is fleeting, and everything will pass; and what has passed will become a kind nostalgia.
2. "When You Are Old"
William Butler Yeats (Ireland)
When you are old, your hair is gray and you are sleepy.
Sitting by the fire, I took down this book.
Reading slowly, looking at the eyes of chasing dreams.
Your soft look and deep halo.
How many people have loved your fleeting figure.
I have loved your beauty, with hypocrisy or true love.
Only one has ever loved you with the heart of a pilgrim.
I love the traces of time on your sad face.
Browsing down beside the stove mantle.
Worried and thoughtful, murmuring.
How love passes away, and how it goes up the mountains.
How to hide your face among the stars.
3. "Love at First Sight"
Szymborska (Poland)
They firmly believe in each other, and it was the instant passion that made them meet.
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is even more beautiful.
They have never met, so they are sure they have nothing to do with each other. However, the words came from the streets, stairs, and lobby.
They may have passed each other a million times, right?
I want to ask them if they remember the moment when they faced each other at the revolving door?
Or murmured "I'm sorry" in the crowd?
Or was it "wrong number" on the other end of the phone?
But I already know the answer.
Yes, they don't remember.
They will be surprised that fate has been teasing them for many years.
The time is not yet ripe, it becomes their destiny, and fate pushes them closer and drives them apart.
Block their way, hold back your laughter, and then step aside.
4. "To"
Shelley (UK)
There is a word that is often blasphemed.
I will not blaspheme again.
There is a kind of emotion that people pretend to despise.
You won’t be mean again.
There is a kind of hope that is too much like despair.
No need to be more careful.
Your compassion is unparalleled.
Warms my heart.
I can't give you what people call love.
But I don’t know if you can accept it.
This heart’s admiration for you.
Even God will not refuse.
Like moths flying towards the stars.
It’s like the night chasing dawn.
This feeling of yearning.
I have already escaped from the plight of the world.
5. "Train"
Talanji (Turkey)
Where to go? So late.
Beautiful train, lonely train?
Misery is the sound of your whistle.
It reminds me of many things.
Why shouldn’t I wave my handkerchief?
The passengers are more or less related to me.
Go ahead, I hope you have a safe journey.
The bridges are strong and the tunnels are bright.
6. "Youth"
Alexandre (Spain)
You come and go gently, from one road to another.
You appear and then disappear.
From one bridge to another.
The pace is short, and the light of joy has dimmed.
The young man may be me, watching the river go by.
On the mirror-like water surface, your whereabouts flow and disappear.