G. A. Bécquer

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer – Alla luce di un lampo / As in a flash of lightning

Pier Francesco Mola, Diane and Endymion, c. 1660 As in a flash of lightning we are born  and even while its brightness lasts, we die: so brief is our existence here beneath  the love and glory we pursue are shorn  like shadowy dreams of all reality: and the awakening from the dream is death! Alla …

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer – Torneranno le brune rondinelle / The black swallows will return

D. Ridgway Knight (1839-1924), A pensive moment The black swallows will return to hang their nests on your balcony, and once again will knock in play against your window panes; but those that stopped their flight and perched to observe your beauty and my good luck, those who learned to know our names … those …

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