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 ...
TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI. I was mistaken, my dear Gino. Long And greatly have I erred. I fancied life ...
The beings of the mind are not of clay; Essentially immortal, they createAnd multiply in us a brigher ray, And ...
Only a few short years ago, there satA youth on one of old Rome's seven hills,Beneath a ruined temple, and ...
As on this world the young man turns his eyes,When forced to try the dark sea of the grave,Thus did ...
If those twin gardens of delight,Thine eyes, were ever in my sight,I would no pink or roses seek,Save those which ...
These lines are to thee; and they come from a heart, Which hath never to thee spoken aught but the ...
(1)One night I dreamt that in a gleaming hallYou played, and overhead the air was sweetWith waving kerchiefs; then a ...
O Friend too dearly lov'd, O name ador'd!My fancy's idol, and my reason's lord!In vain a powerful duty bids us ...
Oh God of love unbounded! Lord supreme!In overwhelming grief, to thee I fly;Rending this veil of hateful calumny,Oh, let thy ...
Salut, divin Triomphe! entre dans nos murailles!Rends-nous ces guerriers illustr?sPar le sang de D?sille, et par les fun7eacute;raillesDe tant de ...
Beyond the calumny and wrong,Beyond the clamour and the throng,Beyond the praise and triumph-song He passed.Beyond the scandal and the ...
Happy the man that, when his day is done, Lies down to sleep with nothing of regret--The battle he has ...
I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame, Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast, Now glows far off as ...
Not once, but often, Truth has been rewarded With fiercest hatred, foulest calumny, While Vice has reigned supreme, by men ...
What is unwisdom but the lusting after Longevity: to be old and full of days! For the vast and unremitting ...
They must to keep their certainty accuse All that are different of a base intent; Pull down established honour; hawk ...
I stood beside his sepulchre whose fame, Hurled over Europe once on bolt and blast, Now glows far off as ...
I weep for Adonais -he is dead! O, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds ...
I weep for Adonais--he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so ...
HAIL! GODDESS of persuasive art! The magic of whose tuneful tongue Lulls to soft harmony the wand'ring heart With fascinating ...
He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. - YOUNG. I ...
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