Hush Before Love A voice rose in the darkness saying “Love,”And in the stall the scattered mice grew still,Where yet the white ox slept, and on the sillThe crowing cock paused, and the grey house doveTurned twice about upon the ledge above. Djuna Barnes (from A Book, 1923) SILENZIO PRIMA DELL’AMORE Nell’oscurità si levò una… Read More “Hush Before Love” by D. Barnes
“Serenade” by Djuna Barnes Three paces down the shore, low sounds the lute,The better that my longing you may know;I’m not asking you to come,But—can’t you go? Three words, “I love you,” and the whole is said—The greatness of it throbs from sun to sun;I’m not asking you to walk,But—can’t you run? Three paces in… Read More “Serenade”
William Butler Yeats one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, was born at Sandymount, Ireland. on 13 June 1865 The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water I heard the old, old men say,“Everything alters,And one by one we drop away.”They had hands like claws, and their kneesWere twisted like the old thorn-treesBy… Read More W. B. Yeats
Djuna Barnes (born on 12 June 1892 –1982) was an American modernist novelist, poet, illustrator, and playwright. The poem” To A Cabaret Dancer” belongs to her illustrated volume of poetry, “The Book of Repulsive Women”, published in 1915. To A Cabaret Dancer A thousand lights had smitten herInto this thing;Life had taken her and given… Read More “To a Cabaret Dancer”
L’origine du monde Profumodi muschioUmidopiacere Brivido lungonel chiarorelunare –petalo di luceche rischiarale biancheondesfattedi quel mare (L.Z.) “L’origine du monde” è un dipinto a olio realizzato da Gustave Courbet nel 1866 e conservato nel Museo d’Orsay di Parigi.
(Please scroll down for English text) I testi ‘rap’ prevedono una sequenza di versi prevalentemente brevi, fortemente ritmati e ricchi di assonanze e allitterazioni, di tono satirico, polemico o addirittura diffamatorio. E’ un tipo di duello verbale che affonda le sue radici nel medioevo, periodo in cui fiorì il genere poetico della tenzóne. Il nome… Read More ‘Freestyle rap battle’ e tenzone (2)
I Travel as a Phantom Now I travel as a phantom now,For people do not wish to seeIn flesh and blood so bare a boughAs Nature makes of me. And thus I visit bodilessStrange gloomy households often at odds,And wonder if Man’s consciousnessWas a mistake of God’s. And next I meet you, and I pause,And… Read More I Travel as a Phantom Now
HAPIf but some vengeful god would call to meFrom up the sky, and laugh: ” Thou suffering thing,Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!” Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than IHad willed and meted… Read More Hap
Thomas Hardy and his first wife Emma had long been estranged when she died in 1912: her death prompted a series of poems which are viewed as being among his best work. In “The Voice”, which deals with love, death, grief, and memories, the poet aments over the loss of his beloved, whose presence is… Read More The Voice
Thomas Hardy (born on 2 June 1840-1928) is acclaimed worldwide as one of the best Victorian novelists (Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd ). He was also a poet, and a much appreciated one, whose poetry is still widely read for its combination of tradition and modernism. Two Lips I kissed… Read More Two Lips 💋
