Follower of Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child, 1505 The sweet morning sun warms and gilds the rye and the wheat still wet, and the blue keeps its nightly cool. We go out without a purpose; we follow, along the river among vague yellow grasses, a grassy path flanked by old alders. The air …
Paul Verlaine – Il sole mattutino / The sweet morning sun Read More »
Charles Francois Daubigny, Moonrise, 1861 Give me your hand, still your breath, let’s rest Under this great tree where the breeze dies Beneath grey branches, in broken sighs, The soft, tender rays of the moon caress. Motionless, and lowering our eyes, Not thinking, dreaming. Let love that tires Have its moment, and happiness that expires, …
Gustave Moreau, The Daughters of Thespius, 1853 Art wishes neither tears nor compromise, That’s my poetic in as many words, won From scorn, and a deep contempt for Man, And war on dumb ennui and love’s outcries. I know one has to suffer to climb the height; The slope is steep viewed from down below. …
Maxim Vorobiev, Oak Fractured by Lightning, 1842 Great woods, you frighten me like cathedrals; you roar like the organ; and in our cursed hearts, rooms of endless mourning where old death-rattles sound, respond the echoes of your De profundis.I hate you, Ocean! your bounding and your tumult, my mind finds them within itself; that bitter laugh of the vanquished man, …
Thomas Cole, A view of the two lakes and mountain house, Catskill Mountains, 1844 When I returned my hair was not yet grey and I was glad. The travails of the mountains lie behind us. Before us lie the travails of the plains. Quando ritornai i miei capelli ancora non erano grigi ed ero contento. …
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 …
Lord Byron – E’ l’ora in cui s’ode tra i rami / It is the hour Read More »
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