Day: May 19, 2019

Emily Dickinson – L’Ape non è impaurita da me / The Bee is not afraid of me

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Girl with flowers, 1888 The Bee is not afraid of me. I know the Butterfly – The pretty people in the Woods Receive me cordially – The Brooks laugh louder When I come – The Breezes madder play; Wherefore mine eye thy silver mists, Wherefore, Oh Summer’s Day? L’Ape non è impaurita da …

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Emily Dickinson – Ho derubato i boschi / I Robbed The Woods

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, The little foot page, 1905 I robbed the Woods – the trusting Woods. the unsuspecting trees brought out their burs and mosses my fantasy to please. I scanned their trinkets curious—I grasped—I bore away – What will the solemn Hemlock – What will the Oak tree say?  Ho derubato i boschi, i boschi …

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Emily Dickinson – Io canto per riempire l’attesa / I sing to use the Waiting

Leopold von Kalckreuth, Sunday afternoon, 1893 I sing to use the Waiting my bonnet but to tie and shut the door unto my house no more to do have I till his best step approaching we journey to the Day and tell each other how we sung to keep the Dark away.  Io canto per …

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