Walter Crane, Shelley’s Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, 1873 Under the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie.Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me;Here he lies where he longed to be,Home is the sailor, home from …
Francesco Cairo (1607–1665), Cleopatra Non voglio un mattone dal tetto –voglio morire lentamente.Voglio morire, osservandoil corpo che secerne, gocciadopo goccia, l’esausta vita.Filtrarla attraverso me stessa,come attraverso un settaccio fine fine,e – dopo – sospirare sollevataper non aver visto nulla sul fondo. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album …
Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950 Una casa deserta che io amo,a due ore da qui,mi serve di conforto.Sulle sue tegole rosate dall’erbala luna si estenua,si addormenta il sole del tempo.Tra le sue mura il silenzio esisteche ora io immagino– sognando di vivereuna seconda infanzia prolungatafino all’ esaurimentodella carne, felice.Mi affaccerò silenzioso a vedere il …
Pompeo Mariani (1857-1939), La sposa del mare (Sea’s bride) A nun takes the veil I have desired to gowhere springs not fail,to fields where flies no sharp and sided hailand a few lilies blow.And I have asked to bewhere no storms come,where the green swell is in the havens dumb,and out of the swing of …
Gerard Manley Hopkins – Porto Celeste / Heaven-Haven Read More »
Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749), Prayer of the Penitent Monks Sadly the dead leaves rustle in the whistling wind, around the weather-worn, gray church, low down the vale: the Saints in glorious vesture shake before the gale; the glorious windows shake, where still they dwell enshrined; old Saints by long dead, shrivelled hands long since designed: there still, …
Lionel Johnson – La chiesa di un sogno / The church of a dream Read More »
Pablo Picasso, Dama en Eden Concert, 1903 Fingo d’esser ubriacaPer esser teneraFingo d’esser stupidaPer dire “T’amo”Fingo d’esser vecchiaPer non dover fingereFingo d’esser mortaFingendo di dormire. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album – Various
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