Mike Worrall (b. 1942), A bouquet It was my city, the empty one at dawn, full with one of my desires. But my love song, my most honest one to others remained unknown. (Transl. by A. Booth) Era la mia città, la città vuota all’alba piena di un mio desiderio. Ma il mio canto d’amore, …
Sandro Penna – Era la mia città, la città vuota / It was my city Read More »
Henri Gervex, Ophelia, 1910 Miser pain, delay your gift in this my hour of longed-for abandons. Chill, again an oboe utters joy of everlasting leaves, not mine, and disremembers; evening falls: the water sets on my grassy hands. In a dim sky, fleeting wings sway; the heart migrates and I am fallow and the days, …
Edward Burne-Jones, The Love Song, 1877 And how could we have sung with the foreign foot on our heart, among the dead abandoned in the squares on the grass set hard with ice, at the lamb-like cry of children, at the black howl of the mother advancing on her son crucified on the telegraph pole? …
Salvatore Quasimodo – Alle fronde dei salici/On the branches of the willows Read More »
Fernand Khnopff, I Lock My Door Upon Myself, 1891 I look at my eyes, sunken shadows, and at the thin furrows in my brow, I look, and is it you, my poor tired reflection, that is so weather beaten? I am burdened by the shadow of a secret dream. Oh, that one last flower in …
Sibilla Aleramo – Guardo i miei occhi/I look at my eyes Read More »
Martin Rico y Ortega, Washerwomen of La Varenne, c.1865 Come tetra la sizza che combatte gli alberi brulli e fa schioccar le rame secche, e sottile fischia tra le fratte! Sur una fratta (o forse è un biancor d’ale?) un corredino ride in quel marame: fascie, bavagli, un piccolo guanciale. Ad ogni soffio del rovaio, …
Jean-François Millet Shepherdess with her Flock, c. 1863 Along the street you see on the hedge red berries laughing in clusters: in the plowed fields to the shed make a late return the cows. Along the road a poor lad with a tired tread is shuffling along slowly on the crispy leaves: in the fields …
Giovanni Pascoli – Sera d’ottobre / October Evening Read More »
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