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Henry Speck

The Middle
East - 1988

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Henry Speck

Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait -1990

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FICTION

NON-FICTION

Ramses

Ramses the
Great

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SCRAPBOOK

The
Lightning Painter
The Hill
Country Beyond
The Llano
String Quartet
The Jawbone
of an Ass

Antico inverno (Ancient winter)

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)


Desiderio delle tue mani chiare
Denella penombra della fiamma:
sapevano di rovere e di rose;
di morte. Antico inverno.

Cercavano il miglio gli uccelli
ed erano subito di neve;
cosí le parole.
Un po’ di sole, una raggira d’angelo,
e poi la nebbia; e gli alberi,
e noi fatti d’aria al mattino.


Ancient Winter

Desire of your clear hands
in the half light of oak and roses;
they smelt of oakwood and roses;
of death. Ancient winter.

The birds looked for their grain
and were suddenly of snow;
similarly words;
a little sun, an angel’s glory,
and then the mist; and the trees,
and us made of air in the morning.

(Translated George Kay)


W H Auden (1907-1973)

The Shield of Achilles

In Memory of W.B. Yeats

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

A Haiku

C P Cavafy (1863-1933)

Ithaka

The God Abandons Antony

Odysseas Elytis (1911-1996)

‘Εϕερα τη ζωη μου ωs εδω

A E Housman (1859-1936)

A Shropshire Lad, LIV

Alexander Korbay (1846-1913)

No, de se baj, több is veszett Mohacsmal!

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

And Thus in Nineveh

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)

Ed é subito sera (And suddenly it is evening)

Antico inverno (Ancient winter)

George Seferis (1900-1971)

ΜΥΦΙΣΤΟΡΗΜΑ: ΚΙ῎

Mythistorema, 17

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Cymbeline - Act IV, Scene 2

The Tempest - Act IV, Scene 1

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

“Frater Ave atque Vale”

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Elegy

Fern Hill

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

When You are Old

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Easter, 1916

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