(29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837 / Rencanati)

poet Count Giacomo Leopardi
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Poems of Count Giacomo Leopardi

1. Aspasia 4/10/2010
2. Calm After Storm 4/10/2010
3. Chorus of the Dead 4/10/2010
4. Consalvo 4/10/2010
5. First Love 4/10/2010
6. Fragment I 4/10/2010
7. Fragment II 4/10/2010
8. Hymn To The Patriarchs 4/10/2010
9. Imitation 4/10/2010
10. L'infinito 1/1/2004
11. Love And Death 4/10/2010
12. Night Song Of A Wandering Shepherd In Asia 4/10/2010
13. On An Old Sepuchral Bas-Relief 4/10/2010
14. On Dante's Monument, 1818 4/10/2010
15. On The Portrait Of A Beautiful Woman, 4/10/2010
16. Palinodia 4/10/2010
17. Recollections 4/10/2010
18. Scherzo 4/10/2010
19. The Dream 4/10/2010
20. The Evening Of The Holiday 4/10/2010

Chorus of the Dead

And all returns to Thee, alone eternal,
And all Thee returning.
Oh Death, in Thy vast shadow,
Simple and bare we languish,
Not happy, but from the anguish
Of life at last set free. The night profoundly
Falls on the shaken spirit,
And dark in dark confuses;
The withered soul sourage and hope refuses;

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