Carducci Essentials: the Poems of Giosuè Carducci Translated in English, with Original Italian Text

 

Carducci Essentials: the Poems of Giosuè Carducci Translated in English, Published by LiteraryJoint.

The latest translation of the work of  Giosuè Carducci.

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The Ancient Lament, by Giosue Carducci, English Translation (Pianto Antico, Rime Nuove)

"Rime Nuove", by G. Carducci, cover 1887
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The Ancient Lament, by Giosue Carducci, from New Rhymes, 1887

 

The tree you used to reach

your infant's hand out to,

the verdant pomegranate

with pretty vermilion flowers,

in the mute solitary orchard

has now just turned green

for June is restoring it

with light and warmth.

You, blossom of my own
shaken and parched tree,

you, of my vain life

ultimate and only flower,

lay in the chilly ground,

lay in the black ground;

neither can the sun gladden you

nor love awaken you again.

Translated by LiteraryJoint

Original version in Italian:

San Martino, Saint Martin's Day, by Giosue Carducci, English Translation

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) - Saint Martin and the Beggar 1597/1599

Saint Martin's Day, by Giosue Carducci, from "Rime Nuove", 1887

The fog to the bare hills
soars in the thin rain,
and below the wind
howls and churns the sea;

yet through the hamlet's alleys
from the fermenting casks
goes the pungent scent of wines
to touch a soul with glee.

On the firewood, turns
the skewer crackling:
stands the hunter whistling,
on the threshold to see

in the reddening clouds
flocks of black birds,
like exiled thoughts
as in the dusk they flee.

Original text in Italian: