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Poème extrait du livre : Answering Back Living poets reply to the poetry of the past

Publié le 28/08/2006

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Poème extrait du livre : Answering Back Living poets reply to the poetry of the past

 

 

To the Moon  (Giacomo Leopardi) Now that the year has come full circle, I remember climbing this hill, heartbroken, To gaze up at the graceful sight of you, And how you hung then above those woods As you do tonight, bathing them in brightness. But at that time your face seemed nothing But a cloudy shimmering through my tears, So wretched was the life I led: and lead still… Nothing changes, moon of my delight. Yet I find pleasure in recollection, in calling back My season of grief : when one is young, And hope is a long road, memory A short one, how welcome then The remembrance of things past – no matter How sad, and that heart still grieving

 

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