John William Waterhouse, Apollo And Daphne, 1908 I didn’t walk in your dreams,I didn’t appear among the crowd,I didn’t show myself in the yardwhere it was raining, or rather it was about to rain(I’ll delete this verse and won’t replace it),it was tempting to believe – like a fool –I would’ve met you soon,you were …
Boris Ryzhy – Non ho camminato nei tuoi sogni / I didn’t walk in your dreams Read More »
Vincenzo Irolli, On the terrace, c. 1935 I write you from the terrace – I stay here longer tonight – to look at the garden under the September sun, to eat bread with oil and small basil leaves. I write you less proud than you’d like – I’m a strong woman, I know but I …
Vivian Lamarque – Lettera dal balcone / Letter from the terrace Read More »
Auguste Leveque, Summer idyll, 1918 Alas how what returns on the leafy mid-July Algerian hillside of you in the tall grass lain down is the voice not ingenuous nor even perverse bewailing the heat and the untamed mouth but hoarse a little and tender only… (Transl. by P. Robinson) Ahimè come ritorna sulla frondosa a …
Silvestro Lega, The betrothed, 1869 The splendid the delirious rain has eased, kisses us with rare final droplets. Outside again love is close by me and friendship. And that murmur, till just then almost imploring, from the darkened portico rumbles at my back now, breaks from my past: faces unaltered they’ll be, same as ever, …
Angelo Morbelli, Le guglie del Duomo di Milano, 1915 At the end of July when from under pergolas of a bar in San Siro through railings and arches you glimpse some wedge of the sun-filled stadium when the great empty bowl amazes mirroring wasted time and it seems that exactly there a year comes to …
Vittorio Sereni – Altro compleanno / Another Birthday Read More »
Plinio Nomellini, On the terrace, 1916 A kiss. And she’s far off. She disappears down there, where the wooded road, which seems to be a great corridor in the green, is lost. I go back there again, where before she wore her beautiful grey dress: I see her crochet needle again, her novels and every …
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