Posts about Seasons
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Ezra Pound – L’albero m’è penetrato nelle mani / The tree has entered my hands
Piero and Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Apollo and Daphne, c.1480 The tree has entered my hands,The sap has ascended my arms,The tree has grown in my breast-Downward,The branches grow out of me, like arms.Tree you are,Moss you are,You are violets with wind above them.A child – so high – you are,And all this is folly to …
Ezra Pound – L’albero m’è penetrato nelle mani / The tree has entered my hands Read More »
Bartolo Cattafi – Feste calme / Calm holiday
Isaac Levitan, A day in June, 1895 Skylarks rejoicein the calm holidays of heaventhe olive darkens on the groundthe green fades awayin the robin’s clear ticking. (Transl. by D. Foglia) Esultanze d’allodolenelle feste calme del cieloin terra l’oliva imbrunail verde svanisceal ticchettio terso del pettirosso. This is a personal translation. Please contact me if you …
Rainer Maria Rilke – Baudelaire
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, The poet, 1896 The poet alone has united the world that falls apart in each of us; He grants vast rights to Beauty; but praising what torments him, he has infinitely purified ruins: and even annihilation turns into world. (Transl. by M. Metzger) Il poeta. Lui solo, ha unificato il mondo …
Robert Louis Stevenson – Requiem
Walter Crane, Shelley’s Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, 1873 Under the wide and starry skyDig the grave and let me lie.Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me;Here he lies where he longed to be,Home is the sailor, home from …
Pietro Bembo – Sonetto CXLV
Edward Reginald Frampton, Flora alpina, c. 1918 Sì lievemente in ramo alpino frondanon è mossa dal vento, o spica mollein colto e verde poggio, o nebbia in colle,o vaga nel ciel nube, e nel mar onda:come sotto bel velo e treccia biondain picciol tempo un cuor si dona e tolle,e disvorrà, quel che più ch’altro …