Saturday, November 14, 2009
Per Nozze (Lettera alla Sposa)
by Aleardo Aleardi (1812-1878)
Nata in terra di forti, orfana bella
Dagli occhi azzurri e da le trecce d
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
In Trouble
by Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
It
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday
by Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
So let me have the rouge again,
And comb my hair the curly way.
The poor young men, the dear young men
They
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Love in Thy Youth, Fair Maid
by Walter Porter
Love in thy youth, fair maid; be wise,
Old Time will make thee colder,
And though each morning new arise
Yet we each day grow older.
Thou as heaven art fair and young,
Thine eyes like twin stars shining:
But ere another day be sprung,
All these will be declining.
Then winter comes with all his [...]
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Goodbye!
by George John Whyte-Melville (1821-1878)
Falling leaf and fading tree,
Lines of white in a sullen sea,
Shadows rising on you and me;
Shadows rising on you and me;
The swallows are making them ready to fly,
Wheeling out on a windy sky.
Goodbye Summer! Goodbye! Goodbye!
Goodbye Summer! Goodbye! Goodbye!
Hush! a voice from the far away!
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Death of the Flowers
by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead;
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit
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A Man Said to the Universe
by Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
A man said to the universe:
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