Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems on Love (23 Poems)

Palinodia (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life A vain and wretched thing, and this, our age, Now passing, vainest, silliest of all. Intolerable seemed, and _was_, … Continue reading →

Consalvo (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

Approaching now the end of his abode On earth, Consalvo lay; complaining once, Of his hard fate, but now quite reconciled, When, in the midst of his fifth lustre, o’er His head oblivion, so longed-for, hung. As for some time, … Continue reading →

To Count Carlo Pepoli (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

This wearisome and this distressing sleep That we call life, O how dost thou support, My Pepoli? With what hopes feedest thou Thy heart? Say in what thoughts, and in what deeds, Agreeable or sad, dost thou invest The idleness … Continue reading →

To Angelo Mai, (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

ON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE LOST BOOKS OF CICERO,“DE REPUBLICA.” Italian bold, why wilt thou never cease The fathers from their tombs to summon forth? Why bring them, with this dead age to converse, That stifled is by enemies … Continue reading →

Recollections (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

Ye dear stars of the Bear, I did not think I should again be turning, as I used, To see you over father’s garden shine, And from the windows talk with you again Of this old house, where as a … Continue reading →

On Dante’s Monument, 1818 (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

Though all the nations now Peace gathers under her white wings, The minds of Italy will ne’er be free From the restraints of their old lethargy, Till our ill-fated land cling fast Unto the glorious memories of the Past. Oh, … Continue reading →

The Ruling Thought (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

Most sweet, most powerful, Controller of my inmost soul; The terrible, yet precious gift Of heaven, companion kind Of all my days of misery, O thought, that ever dost recur to me; Of thy mysterious power Who speaketh not? … Continue reading →

To Italy (1818) (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

My country, I the walls, the arches see, The columns, statues, and the towers Deserted, of our ancestors; But, ah, the glory I do not behold, The laurel and the sword, that graced Our sires of old. Now, all unarmed, … Continue reading →

The Resurrection (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

I thought I had forever lost, Alas, though still so young, The tender joys and sorrows all, That unto youth belong; The sufferings sweet, the impulses Our inmost hearts that warm; Whatever gives this life of … Continue reading →

Hymn To The Patriarchs (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)

OR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE. Illustrious fathers of the human race, Of you, the song of your afflicted sons Will chant the praise; of you, more dear, by far, Unto the Great Disposer of the stars, … Continue reading →