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Emily Dickinson – Come se chiedessi una comune elemosina / As If I Asked A Common Alms

Guido Reni, The Coronation of the Virgin, 1607 As if I asked a common Alms, And in my wondering hand A Stranger pressed a Kingdom, And I, bewildered, stand— As if I asked the Orient Had it for me a Morn— And it should lift its purple Dikes, And shatter me with Dawn!  Come se …

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Emily Dickinson – C’è un altro cielo / There is another sky

Anna Lea Merritt, Eve, 1885 There is another sky, ever serene and fair, and there is another sunshine, though it be darkness there;  never mind faded forests, Austin, never mind silent fields – here is a little forest, whose leaf is ever green;  here is a brighter garden, where not a frost has been;  in …

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