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Percy Bysshe Shelley – The World’s Wanderers

Auguste Raynaud, Night, 1886 ca Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of lightspeed thee in thy fiery flight,in what cavern of the nightwill thy pinions close now?Tell me, Moon, thou pale and gray pilgrim of Heaven’s homeless way,in what depth of night or dayseekest thou repose now?Weary Wind, who wanderestlike the world’s rejected guest, hast thou still …

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James Joyce – Brezze di maggio / Winds of May

Rupert Bunny, Pastoral, 1893 Winds of May, that dance on the sea, dancing a ring-around in glee from furrow to furrow, while overhead the foam flies up to be garlanded, in silvery arches spanning the air, saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!  Brezze di maggio, danzanti sul mare!Via che …

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Emily Bronte – La notte si addensa attorno a me / The night is darkening around me

Edmund Dulac, from Stealers of light, 1916 The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.  The giant trees are bending Their bare boughs weighed with snow; The storm is fast descending, And yet I cannot go.  Clouds beyond clouds above me, Wastes beyond wastes below; But nothing drear can move …

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