Esperanto Translations: Twenty-one Stories, Poems and Songs from the English

When I retired I pondered how I wanted to spend my remaining years. I am an artist and a writer so there is always plenty to do, but I felt I needed to stimulate my brain in another way and I had heard that learning a new language was just the ticket. After considering a number of options I decided to learn Esperanto. Esperanto is a created language using the roots of words from many languages and many affixes which makes it much easier to learn than a national language like English or Russian.

After a number of years of study I did learn it well enough to correspond and converse. I decided that I would like to try my hand at translating. With the necessary help of my mentor William ORyan I dipped my toe into the translation ocean and completed my first item. Over the years I continued and have to date translated twenty one stories, poems and songs which can be seen on my website below. You can also see William ORyans Esperanto grammar book in progress. It contains about 250 pages so far.

Here is a list, in English, of the available translations:

Araby by James Joyce

This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams

Eveline by James Joyce

The Open Door by Saki

Haiku by Jack Wilson

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Sing a Song of Sixpence - Anonymous

The Plot Against the Giant by Wallace Stevens

Mary Had a Little Lamb - Anonymous

The Mouse by Saki

Fog by Carl Sandburg

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Jerome Kern

P is for Peas by MFK Fisher

Pardon Me O God by Robert Frost

Turn Right by Jack Wilson

About Moores Visit to the Circus by Elizabeth Bishop

Sumer is a cumin in - Anonymous

The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams

The Witness by Jorge Luis Borges

You Will Know that I Love You by Teddy Fregoso

Girl from Ipanema by Antonio Carlos Jobim et al

Thes translations from English into Esperanto can all be seen at the website below. There you will also find a link to William ORyans Esperanto Grammar.

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Jack Wilson is a writer, artist and translator in Tempe,AZ

http://www.geocities.com/galimatio/enhavo.html

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