The Lonely Life (Count Giacomo Leopardi Poems)
The morning rain, when, from her coop released, The hen, exulting, flaps her wings, when from The balcony the husbandman ...
The morning rain, when, from her coop released, The hen, exulting, flaps her wings, when from The balcony the husbandman ...
"SWEEP on, ye winds-congenial billows roar, As, lost, I wander on your dubious shore; In sad review each shudd'ring vision ...
GOD dreaming in his star-enshrouded skyBethought himself of me, so even IWho was till then as nothing, leapt to life ...
Yea peoples of the earth, put not your trust In princes, nor in any child of man Set over you ...
IO you poets, ever pretending Love is immortal, pipe the truth!Empty your books of lies, the ending Of no passion ...
HE.See the smoke-wreaths how they curl so lightly skywardFrom the ivied cottage nestled in the trees:Such a lovely spot-I really ...
30 dogs, 20 men on 20 horses and one fox and look here, they write, you are a dupe for ...
All its innocent thoughts,Like rose leaves scattered.~~There is an angel sleeping in this room,A little angel, with the quietest bloomOf ...
Majuba Day! Majuba Day!Here's a health to Bobs and his force to-day!For the wiped-out shame from Britannia's fame,And the work ...
When, having finished, I shall move my armchair,The page will gasp, awakened from the strain.Delirious, she is half asleep at ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
A CERTAIN husband who, from jealous fear, With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear, Deprived his wife of ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
In law an infant, and in years a boy, In mind a slave to every vicious joy; From every sense ...
A city clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas ...
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