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Christina Rossetti – Quando io sono morta, mio carissimo / When I am dead, my dearest

By booksofart / Christina Rossetti / death, Dream, song

Edward Frederick Brewtnall, Sleeping Beauty, 1880 ca When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall …

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Hermann Hesse – Berceuse

By booksofart / Hermann Hesse / music, Night, song

William Ladd Taylor, Couple embracing, 1904 Cantami la tua dolce nenia!Da quando se ne andò la giovinezzaho tanto desiderato udirne il verso,vieni da me, dolce melodia,solo tu puoi ancora affascinareil mio cuore inquieto nelle lunghe notti.Posami sui capelli la mano sottilee sogniamo insieme della nostra terra,della gloria morta e della felicità.Come una stella che vaga …

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Jacques Prevert – Le foglie morte / The dead leaves

By booksofart / Jacques Prevert / autumn, nude, song

Gabriel Guay, The last Dryad, 1876 ca Oh I wish so much you would remember those happy days when we were friends. Life in those times was so much brighter and the sun was hotter than today. Dead leaves picked up by the shovelful. You see, I have not forgotten. Dead leaves picked up by …

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John Donne – Song

By booksofart / John Donne / Love poems, song

Fritz Zuber-Buhler, The Spirit of the Morning, c.1880 Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root,Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil’s foot,Teach me to hear mermaids singing,Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What windServes to advance an honest mind.If thou be’st born to strange sights, …

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William Butler Yeats – La veste / A coat

By booksofart / William Butler Yeats / nude, song

Franz von Stuck, Bathsheba, 1912 I made my song a coat covered with embroideries out of old mythologies from heel to throat; but the fools caught it, wore it in the world’s eyes as though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take itfor there’s more enterprise in walking naked. Feci al mio canto una vestecoperta di ricamitratti da miti antichi,dai talloni alla gola.Ma …

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Emily Dickinson – Io canto per riempire l’attesa / I sing to use the Waiting

By booksofart / Emily Dickinson / country, music, song, waiting

Leopold von Kalckreuth, Sunday afternoon, 1893 I sing to use the Waiting my bonnet but to tie and shut the door unto my house no more to do have I till his best step approaching we journey to the Day and tell each other how we sung to keep the Dark away. Io canto per …

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Christina Rossetti – Quando io sono morta, mio carissimo / When I am dead, my dearest

Hermann Hesse – Berceuse

Jacques Prevert – Le foglie morte / The dead leaves

John Donne – Song

William Butler Yeats – La veste / A coat

Emily Dickinson – Io canto per riempire l’attesa / I sing to use the Waiting

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