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This poem, San Martino, is from his poetry collection called Rime Nuove New Lyrics published in 1887.

And as the wind Comes through the copses sighing to my ears, The infinite silence and the passing voice I must compare: remembering the seasons, Quiet in dead eternity, and the present, Living and sounding still.

I do not have any thought that is not yours; I have no desire in the blood that is not for you.

Among conflicting winds in a frail boat I find myself on the deep sea without a helm, so light in knowledge, so laden with error, that I do not know what I wish myself, and tremble in midsummer, burn in winter.

What is this maze of light it leaves us in? I told her of the Knight that wore Upon his shield a burning brand; And that for ten long years he wooed The Lady of the Land.

A satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall.

E quando ti corteggian liete le nubi estive e i zeffiri sereni, Perhaps because you are the image of that fatal quiet so dear to me, you have come, O Evening! Surprisingly, the first eight lines are not about love or even human life; Keats looks at a personified star Venus? I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story— An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary.

I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals.

0,] Primo Michele Levi Using his experiences as a prisoner in an Auschwitz concentration camp, Primo Michele Levi wrote the highly acclaimed.

Chi si volta, e chi si gira, sempre a casa va finire.

And I still live, which I grieve over and disdain, left without the light I loved so much, in great ill-fortune, in a shattered boat.