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Hermann Hesse – Nastri rossi / Red ribbons

Jean Beraud, Evening soiree, 1878 Red ribbons!You remind me of music and white clothes –a party, which has long since faded.Red ribbons!My girlfriend wasdown on the balcony railing,she laughed and gave me her hand.And she gave me two ribbonsof red silk.I left, and crossed so many lands.When I returned, she was already dead. (Transl. by D. …

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Lord Byron – E’ l’ora in cui s’ode tra i rami / It is the hour

Gustave Moreau, Evening and sorrow, 1882 It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale’s high note is heard; It is the hour — when lover’s vows Seem sweet in every whisper’d word; And gentle winds and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in …

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