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A Selection From the Poems of Giosue Carducci
A Selection From the Poems of Giosue Carducci Author:Giosuč Carducci General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green and co. Subjects: Italian poetry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access ... more »to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A SUMMER'S DREAM Mid thy battles, O Homer, and resonant swing of thy verses, Did the heat of the day overcome me, my head sank in slumber By the banks of Scamander,1 but to the Tyrrhenian my heart flew. Sweet things and placid I dreamed of, I dreamed of my earliest years, Vanished my books and the chamber, made hot with the sun of July, And reverberant with the rolling of heavy carts on the flint-paved Streets of the city.2 Then around me rose the hills that I loved well, Wild hills that young April reflowered ; down the hillside descended Rippling fresh murmurs a brooklet, and babbling grew to a river. By the river, in bloom of her young years, my mother was walking. A child by the hand she was leading, on whose white shoulders brightly Golden locks clustered. The boy walked with short steps, joyous, exultant, Proud in the love of his mother, his heart moved by the festival Vast of harmonious melodies life-giving Nature was chanting. Far above from the hamlet3 were bells sweetly chiming glad tidings, Announcing that Christ on the morrow would return to His Heaven. Over the peaks and the plain, and through the branches, through the breezes, Through the waters, rang out melodious the Spirit of Spring-tide, And the apple trees and the peach trees were all white and pink blossom, While in flowers beneath them the grass laughed in turquoise and yellow, Downward sloping were the meadows, clothed all in deep crimson clover And the gentle hills had decked themselves with broom in golden glory, And a zephyr soft came d...« less