Federico Zandomeneghi, Promenade, c. 1890 On their virginal step kept on swaying kept on swaying their musical hair in the great radiance of the gentle sun they were three virgins and a single grace on their virginal step kept on swaying black and crispy their virginal hair they were three virgins and a single grace …
Dino Campana – Three florentine girls / Tre giovani fiorentine Read More »
John William Waterhouse, My sweet rose, 1909 In a momentThe roses have fadedThe petals have fallenBecause I could not forget the rosesWe looked for togetherWe found some rosesThey were her roses they were my rosesThis trip we called loveWith our blood and with our tears we made the rosesThat shined a moment in the morning …
Edward Lear, View of Florence from Villa San Firenze, 1862 I loved you in that city where on sunlit streets languid footsteps tread where a tender peace that rains at evening on the unsated unrepentant heart turns to an ambiguous violet springtime far above the pallid sky. (Transl. by A.S.Kline) Vi amai nella città dove …
Franco Gentilini, The street, 1977 My heart tonight said: do you not know? The enchanting rose-brown girl, adorned with that golden head of hair: and those shining brown eyes whose imperious grace enchanted the roseate freshness of morning: she whom you followed in the air the fresh incarnation of morning dream: who used to wander …
Dino Campana – The Night Of the Fair/La sera di fiera Read More »
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762-1844), Capriccio notturno The evening smoky of summer from above the windowpane pours out dim light through the shadow and leaves in my heart an ardent seal, but who has (on the balcony overlooking the river a lamp turns on) who has at Madonnina del Ponte who is who is who has …
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Promenade by the Sea,1909 You brought me a little seaweedin your hair, and a wind odorthat came in from hundreds of miles away and arrivesheavy with meaning, smuggled in your tanned skin:-O the divinesimplicity of your acrobat’s body-not love not spasm, but something untouchable,necessity’s ghost that walks aimlesslyserene and ineluctable through …
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