Poesia kaiera
S.M.ri
(Akabukoetan balego)
Ez dut batere gura zu joaterik
Lur azpira, Helena bertan baitago
Honezkero esna duzu, badakit nik.
Kleopatraren oinetako uztaiekin
Nire baimenaz ez zara herdoilduko;
Saforen hautsak dabiltza ipurtarin;
Kresidak maite lezake berriz; Dido,
Hil kaperan ustel, oraindik da urduri.
Zuk ni uztea zait guztiz gogaikarri.
To S. M.
(If he should lie a-dying)
/ I am not willing you should go / Into the earth, where Helen went; / She is awake by now, I know. / Where Cleopatra's anklets rust / You will not lie with my consent; / And Sappho is a roving dust; / Cressid could love again; Dido, / Rotted in state, is restless still: / You leave me much against my will.