Giorgio Belloni (1861-1944), Full Moon on the Sea With sails all black my ship sails on far over the raging sea; thou know’st full well how sad am I, and yet tormentest me. Thy heart is faithless as the wind, and flutters ceaselessly; with sails all black my ship sails on far over the raging …
Heinrich Heine – Passa la nave mia / With black sails Read More »
Albert Joseph Moore, Loves of the Wind and The Seasons, c. 1892 Callignotus swore to Ionis that he would never hold man or woman dearer than her.He sware : but what they say is true – that lovers’ oaths enter not the ears of the immortals.And now his flame is a man, while ofpoor Ionis there …
Giambattista Tiepolo, The Death of Hyacinthus, 1752 Who knows aright to-morrow’s fortune ? When even thee, Charmis,whom we saw with our own eyes yesterday,next day we laid in the grave with tears. Than that thy father Diophon hath seen nothing more painful. Il dio domani chi mai può conoscerlo? Ieri tu pure, o Carmide, ci stavi …
Gustave Courtois, Orpheus, 1875 Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus,and it moved me to tears, and I remembered howoften we put the sun to sleepas we were talking.You, my friend from Halicarnassus, lie somewhere,long long ago gone to dust; but your nightingales are living, and Hades who snatches everything will never lay his hand upon them. …
Giovanni Fattori, Il Salto Delle Pecore (The Sheeps’ Jump), 1887 September, let us go. It’s time to migrate. Now in the land of Abruzzi my shepherds leave the pens and go down to the sea: they go down to the wild Adriatic that is green like the mountain pastures. They drank deeply from the mountain …
William Adolphe Bouguereau, The Wave, 1896 On the wan sea-strandlonely I lay, and in sorrowful brooding.The sun sank lower and lower, and flunghis red rays, glowing, on the water,and I watched the far white billows,in the grip of the flood,foaming and roaring, nigher and nigher… Sulla pallida spiaggia giacevo,solitario dai tristi pensieri.Declinava al tramonto nel …
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