OWEN – ONE OF THESE DAYS


This song is one of the only songs that I can completely relate to. I feel I can to a lot of songs out there, but this one in particular actually describes me. I’m truthfully nothing but a deadbeat and I never want to give into the man even though I know I have to […]

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CRYWANK – MEMENTO MORI


From movie: Gummo Everyone I love is going to die, and I will die as well. I think about this before I sleep, and have since I was a child. In my life will I make a difference? In my death will I be missed? Will I be granted some sort of an afterlife, or […]

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LEOPARDI: FIRST LOVE


Translated by A.S.Kline My thoughts turn to the day when I felt love war in me, for the first time, and I said: ‘Ah, if this is love, how it torments me!’ When, with eyes fixed wholly on the ground, I marvelled at her, she who was first to open, all innocent, the passage to […]

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LEOPARDI: THE RE-AWAKING


Translated by A.S.Kline I thought the sweet troubles of my first youth were lost, after my fresh springtime: all the sweet troubles, all the tender feelings, of my deepest heart, all that in this world makes us glad to feel. What grief and tears were scattered, in that new life, when the pain first ended […]

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LEOPARDI: TO HIMSELF


Translated by A.S.Kline Now you’ll rest forever my weary heart. The last illusion has died I thought eternal. Died. I feel, in truth, not only hope, but desire for dear illusion has vanished. Rest forever. You’ve laboured enough. Not a single thing is worth your beating: the earth’s not worthy of your sighs. Bitter and […]

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LEOPARDI: ON LOVELY LADY’S IMAGE


Translated by A.S.Kline (Carved on her Tomb) You were such, who now are buried dust and skeleton. Placed motionless, helpless, above the earth and bone, mute, gazing at the flight of ages, stands the sole guardian of grief and memory, the image of lost beauty. That sweet glance that made men tremble as it gazed […]

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Giacomo Leopardi – Opera Omnia: Dialogue between Frederich Ruysch and his mummies


Translated by Charles Edwardes CHORUS OF THE DEAD IN RUYSCH’S LABORATORY O DEATH, thou one eternal thing, That takest all within thine arms, In thee our coarser nature rests In peace, set free from life’s alarms: Joyless and painless is our state. Our spirits now no more are torn By racking thought, or earthly fears; […]

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