Jean-François Millet Shepherdess with her Flock, c. 1863 Along the street you see on the hedge red berries laughing in clusters: in the plowed fields to the shed make a late return the cows. Along the road a poor lad with a tired tread is shuffling along slowly on the crispy leaves: in the fields …
Giovanni Pascoli – Sera d’ottobre / October Evening Read More »
Henri Moret (1856-1913), Storm, the coast of Finistere A distant rumble… The horizon reddens, as on fire, to the sea: pitch-black, to the mountain, rags of light-colored clouds: in the black a cottage: a wing of a seagull. (Transl. by A. Baruffi) Un bubbolio lontano… Rosseggia l’orizzonte, come affocato, a mare: nero di pece, a …
Giuseppe De Nittis, The approach of the storm, 1868 And sky and earth revealed themselves as they were; the earth, gasping, livid, in shock; the sky, overcast, tragic, in ruins: white white in the silent tumult a house appeared disappeared suddenly like an eye, which, wide, aghast, opened closed, in the black night. E cielo …
George Clausen, The stone pickers, 1887 Gemlike the air, the sun so bright above you look for blossoms on the apricot trees, recall the bitter whitethorn scent you love and sniff the breeze. But the whitethorn’s withered, the brittle boughs hatch their black schemes against the empty blue, and the earth rings hollow now beneath …
Giovanni Boldini, Laundresses, 1874 A plow without oxen or strap sits in a field half grey, half black. In the mist, it looks forgotten. And up from the pond , the sound of laundresses, beating wet cloth against stone as they sing: Strong winds rain the petals down and still you won’t come home. You …
Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819 My ship, full of oblivion, sails on a bitter sea, at winter’s midnight, between Scylla and Charybdis: at the helm sits that Lord, or rather my enemy. At each oar there’s a cruel eager thought, that scorns the tempest and its end: the sail’s torn by an …
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