Love poems

Sandro Penna – Era la vita tua lieta e gentile / Your life is pleasing and gentle

Carlo Ferranti, An Amorous Advance, c. 1908 Your life is pleasing and gentle. Along the way appeared a well-dressed gentleman, full of love but who was, simply, a worm. Your life is quiet and unconcerned with style. (Transl. by Peter Valente) Era la vita tua lieta e gentile. Quando a un tratto arrivò, gonfio d’amore, …

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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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