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Alexander Pushkin – Io pensavo che il cuore avesse dimenticato / I thought you had forgotten, heart

John-Everett Millais, Pot Pourri, 1856 I thought you had forgotten, heart,  your ability to suffer pain.  That easy gift would come, I thought,  no more again! No more again!  Gone were the raptures and the griefs  and the dreams you half-believed. . .  But now I know, while beauty lives  so long will live my …

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Alexander Pushkin – Ricordo il meraviglioso istante / A magic moment I remember

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Washing hands, 1865 A magic moment I remember:  I raised my eyes and you were there,  A fleeting vision, the quintessence  Of all that’s beautiful and rare.  I pray to mute despair and anguish, To vain the pursuits world esteems, Long did I hear your soothing accents, Long did your features haunt …

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Percy Bysshe Shelley –The Birth Place Of Pleasure

Edward Robert Hughes, Night with her train of stars, 1912 At the creation of the Earth pleasure, that divinest birth, from the soil of Heaven did rise, wrapped in sweet wild melodies –  like an exhalation wreathing  to the sound of air low-breathing through Aeolian pines, which make a shade and shelter to the lake …

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Rainer Maria Rilke – Poichè del terribile il bello / For beauty is nothing

Kinuko Y. Craft, Psyche’s Curiosity, 2000 ca For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Poichè del terribile il bello non è che il principio, che ancora noi sopportiamo e lo ammiriamo così, ché quieto …

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Charles Baudelaire – Invito al Viaggio / Invitation to the Voyage

Henri Matisse, Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904 My child, my sister,think of the raptureof living together there! Of loving at will, of loving till death,in the land that is like you! The misty sunlight of those cloudy skieshas for my spirit the charms, so mysterious, of your treacherous eyes,shining brightly through their tears.There all is order and beauty,luxury, peace, and pleasure.Gleaming …

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Lord Byron – Passa radiosa / She Walks in Beauty

Jean-Louis Hamon, The night, 1866 She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every …

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