Multilingual Short Works Collection 031 - Poetry & Prose

This is our 31st collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English) as listed below. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. (Summary by ToddHW) Description of Readings: 1. Bengali - দুই পাখি [Dui Pakhi] - 3:03 Rabindranath Tagore Link to text [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.340223/page/n62/mode/2up] Keywords: A conversation between two birds: one free and the other captive. 2. Chinese - 水調歌頭 [shui tiao ge tou] - 4:12 Su Shi Link to text [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27123] 3. French - Les fraises de décembre - 9:36 Claudius Ferrand Link to text [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23954] Keywords: A fairytale about a young girl and her awful mother-in-law and step-sister, à la Vassilissa or Cinderella; Fables et légendes du Japon 4. French - Trésor-des-Fèves et Fleur-des-Pois: conte des fées - 52:58 Charles Nodier Link to text [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k643976.texteImage] Keywords: Conte Fées Jeunesse; Un joli bébé arrive dans une famille, la vieille dame l’appelle Trésor des Fèves, il est vif et intelligent. Ses parents l’adorent. Il part un jour … et fait la connaissance d’une gentille et jolie mignonne, Fleur des Pois… qui a une calèche magique… 5. German - Ein stummer Bericht von einem Schiffbruch - 8:47 Holger Drachmann (1846 - 1908) Link to text [https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/drachman/erstarb/chap02.html] Keywords: Deutsch, Kurzgeschichte, Mystisch, Übersetzt von Otto Hauser 6. Hebrew - פגישה, חצי פגישה [Pgisha, Khatzi Pgisha] - 1:05 Rachel Bluwstein Link to text [https://www.davar1.co.il/24483/150716_old_davar-07/] Keywords: meeting; lovers; emotion; memories; love; Hebrew; Israel 7. Irish - Amhrán an Tae - 4:08 Colm de Bhailís Link to text [https://archive.org/details/arinuilmdeails00debh/page/4/mode/2up] Keywords: Colm de Bhailís, Amhrán an Tae, Conamara, Marriage, Tea, Tobacco, Galway 8. Italian - Decameron, Quarta Giornata, Prima Novella - 26:36 Giovanni Boccaccio Link to text [https://archive.org/details/decameron00unkngoog/page/186/mode/2up] Keywords: ancient Italian, compelling romance, father and daughter conflict, love and death, italian noble court of XIV century, tragic ending 9. Italian - Ninna-nanna - 2:06 Trilussa Link to text [https://dl.fondazionegramsci.org/imageserver/tify/iiif-gramsci-0002/6022e46f040bedbbca480515?tify={] Keywords: poem in Italian dialect ("Romanesco"), anti-war feelings, poem written in 1917 but unluckily up to date even today as a comment to the tragic current events 10. Luxembourgish - Kê Barométer mě - 0:52 Michel Lentz Link to text [https://viewer.eluxemburgensia.lu/ark:70795/dkvknc/pages/229] Keywords: bad weather, farmers, fancy-fair, clothes, poem, fun 11. Polish - Przygrywka - 2:52 Maria Konopnicka Link to text [https://pl.wikisource.org/wiki/Strona:PL_Maria_Konopnicka-Poezye_seria_pierwsza_013.jpg] Keywords: poezja, marzenia, podróź 12. Romanian - Bunica - 1:18 Ștefan Octavian Iosif Link to text [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Stefan_Octavian_Iosif_-_Patriarhale.pdf&page=18] Keywords: Ștefan Octavian Iosif, lyric poetry, poezie lirică, the longing for grandmather, dorul de bunica, blândețea și frumusețea bunicii 13. Romanian - De sărbători - 1:31 Ștefan Octavian Iosif Link to text [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Stefan_Octavian_Iosif_-_Poezii_(1901_-_1902).pdf&page=28] Keywords: The Christmas celebration, the longing for the homeland, sărbătoarea Crăciunului 14. Romanian - E împărţită omenirea - 2:41 Mihai Eminescu Link to text [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35323/] Keywords: Mihai Eminescu, E împărțită omenirea, oameni simpli, înțelepti, căință, Dumnezeu 15. Russian - Кукушка [Kukushka] - 0:36 Анна Ахматова Link to text [https://imwerden.de/publ-1165.html] Keywords: неволя, принуждение 16. Spanish - Redondilla I: A los hombres - 3:08 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Link to text [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Obras_selectas_de_la_celebre_monja_de_Me/bMcGAQAAIAAJ] Keywords: Poesía colonial Poesía del siglo XVII 17. Spanish - Temprano y con sol - 10:58 Emilia Pardo Bazán Link to text [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36805] Keywords: young love 18. Swedish - Ett halvt ark papper - 4:42 August Strindberg Link to text [https://archive.org/details/samladeskrifter38stri/page/50/mode/2up] Keywords: death, grief, melancholia, nostalgia, starting over, light in the darkness 19. Swedish - På rakstugan - 1:41 Albert Ulrik Bååth Link to text [https://books.google.se/books?id=7UEMNUe7nugC&pg=PA98] Keywords: barbershop, gossip, scandal, suicide, morality, hypocrisy, judgmentalism, fear of death. 20. Ukrainian - Безсонна ніч [bezsonna nich] - 2:04 Леся Українка Link to text [https://archive.org/details/libgen_00700745/page/n76/mode/1up] Keywords: важкі часи, hard times