Les Feuilles Mortes

[poliphilo]

In spite of Keats French seems to be the better language for talking about Autumn

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l'autumne

Blessent mon coeur
D'une langueur
Monotone...

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Italiano forse?


Giardino Autunnale

Al giardino spettrale al lauro muto
De le verdi ghirlande
A la terra autunnale
Un ultimo saluto!
A l’aride pendici
Aspre arrossate nell’estremo sole
Confusa di rumori
Rauchi grida la lontana vita:
Grida al morente sole
Che insanguina le aiole.
S’intende una fanfara
Che straziante sale: il fiume spare
Ne le arene dorate: nel silenzio
Stanno le bianche statue a capo i ponti
Volte: e le cose già non sono più.
E dal fondo silenzio come un coro
Tenero e grandioso
Sorge ed anela in alto al mio balcone:
E in aroma d’alloro,
In aroma d’alloro acre languente,
Tra le statue immortali nel tramonto
Ella m’appar, presente.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly, but French is my only foreign language.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Ah!

I do both! :o)

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,
And over the mice in the barley sheaves;
Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us,
And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.

The hour of the waning of love has beset us,
And weary and worn are our sad souls now;
Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,
With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.

I do think Yeats was on to something with that phrasing "the long leaves that love us" - but then I've always been mad about alliteration...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Alliteration is very cool. When I'm writing verse I'm always particularly pleased if a bit of alliteration works its way in.

I'm not sure what he means by "long leaves that loves us" but it's a phrase that sticks in the mind.

[sovay]

Those are very beautiful leaves.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Some sort of maple, I think. Exotic for this part of the world. My parents put in quite a number of exotic trees.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Of course, I can't help but feel they'd be improved with the addition of a bunny or two. =:)