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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Maskoke Okisce (ca. 1985)

Wotkoce Okisce

Travel safely

Mohammad-Reza Shafi'i Kadkani

Zonder titel

Luís Vaz de Camões

Lobelia I (1916)

I.K. Bonset

The Man in the Panther's Skin

Sjota Roestaveli

Natur und Kunst (1802)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

O, arbeid (1933)

Marinus van der Lubbe

Avond op het land (1984)

Cees van Hoore

Idurar n-arrif (ca. 1985)

Elwalid Mimoun

De waterlelie (1887)

Frederik van Eeden

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