Over 120 poems can be found on the walls of Leiden, in a wide range of languages and scripts. On this website, you can read and listen to them. You can also find translations, background information, bike and walking routes and personal stories.

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Sonnet XXX (ca. 1593)

William Shakespeare

Weegschaal (ca. 1970)

Josef Sarig

Bewogen (1968)

Chr.J. van Geel

The hours rise

Edward Estlin Cummings

Zet het blauw (1961)

Willem Hussem

In veertien boeken (1965)

Leo Vroman

Kawa mata wa Shu (1966)

Seiichi Niikuni

Muza (1924)

Anna Achmatova

Naamloos

Vallana

Taalles (1962)

Elisabeth Eybers

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