Poesia kaiera
Arides
Arides herabea
Emazte itsusi batekin ezkondu da,
Aspertuta zegoen bere bizimoduarekin,
Axolagabe eta adorea galdurik, uste izan zuen
Egintza hau beste edozein bezain ona zitekeela.
Bere baitan zioelarik: “Ene buruarendako ez naiz baliagarri,
Har nazala berak, nahi badu”.
Hondamendira eraman zuen.
Arides
The bashful Arides / Has married an ugly wife, / He was bored with his manner of life, / Indifferent and discouraged he thought he might as / Well do this as anything else. // Saying within his heart, “I am no use to myself, / “Let her, if she wants me, take me.” / He went to his doom.