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Guillaume Apollinaire – Southward

Gaston de Latouche (1854-1913), Lovers and swans, The autumn walk Zenithall those regretsthose endless gardenswhere the toad modulates a tender cry of azurethe doe of bewildered silence moves quickly passa nightingale wounded by love sings upon the roses of your body  whose roses I have gatheredour hearts hang together from the same pomegranate treeand the pomegranate flowershatched …

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Christina Rossetti – Vanità delle vanità / Vanity of Vanities

Vittorio Matteo Corcos, In the garden, 1892 Of all the downfalls in the world,  the flutter of an Autumn leaf  grows grievous by suggesting grief:  who thought, when Spring was first unfurled,  of this? The wide world lay empearled;  who thought of frost that nips the world?  Sigh on, my ditty.  There lurk a hundred …

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