female poets

Louise Ackermann – Amore e Morte / Love and Death

Eugène Delacroix, Romeo and Juliet at the Tomb of the Capulets, 1849 Watch them pass, these ephemeral couples!In the arms of each other embraced for a moment,all, before mingling their dust forever, make the same oath.Always! A bold word that the heavens that agewith astonishment hear pronounce,and who dare to repeat lips that paledand that will …

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Gaspara Stampa – Io son da l’aspettar omai sì stanca / By now so sick of waiting

Telemaco Signorini, Non potendo aspettare, 1867 By now so sick of waiting, I’m by nowso beaten by the pain (by now the burnwon’t stop and he forgets so quickly howI trust in his return and how I yearn),that I cry out for her to give me rest,she of the pallid face and reaper’s knifewhose chilly …

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Cécile Sauvage – Ricordi dell’infanzia

William Merritt Chase, Hide and seek, 1888 Ricordi dell’infanziaaver freddo nel silenziosentirmiguardata dall’ indifferenzati rivedo, gioventùpiccola, ripiegata su te stessaseduta a raccogliere le vocidi un’ anima quasi dimenticata. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album – Various

Frida Kahlo – Di struggente bellezza / Of poignant beauty

Frida Kahlo, Self portrait with a monkey, 1938 I stopped counting the times when, arrived at the second line, I deleted and rewritten everything again. I was looking for a start to effect, something poetic and true at the same time, something great, but in the eye. I could not do it. Then I understood, …

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