Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson – Quella vita che fu tenuta a freno / The Life that tied too tight escapes

Han Wu Shen, Girl with a horse, c.2010 The Life that tied too tight escapes Will ever after run With a prudential look behind And spectres of the Rein— The Horse that scents the living Grass And sees the Pastures smile Will be retaken with a shot If he is caught at all— Quella vita …

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Emily Dickinson – Io non l’ho detto ancora al mio giardino / I haven’t told my garden yet

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Biblis, 1884 I haven’t told my garden yet – Lest that should conquer me. I haven’t quite the strength now To break it to the Bee – I will not name it in the street For shops would stare at me – That one so shy—so ignorant Should have the face to die. …

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Emily Dickinson – Come se chiedessi una comune elemosina / As If I Asked A Common Alms

Guido Reni, The Coronation of the Virgin, 1607 As if I asked a common Alms, And in my wondering hand A Stranger pressed a Kingdom, And I, bewildered, stand— As if I asked the Orient Had it for me a Morn— And it should lift its purple Dikes, And shatter me with Dawn!  Come se …

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