Halcyon

This carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics is a diary of a summer spent in Tuscanypart of the time spent with the Italian actress Eleanora Duse. The poems evoke specific times and places and they conjure up emotions, memories, and myths associated with each place. Beginning in early summer, they move through the seasons, changing in verse form and mood, and always reflecting the sensuous qualities of language.

Gabriele D'Annunzio was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, and war hero, who went on to play a controversial role in Italian politics prior to the Fascist movement. J. G. Nichols is a poet and translator.

Introduction

7

(14)

HALCYON

The truce

21

(3)

The youngster

24

(10)

By the side of the Affrico on an evening in June after rain

34

(2)

Evening at Fiesole

36

(2)

The olive

38

(2)

The ear of corn

40

(2)

Works and days

42

(2)

The bard without a lyre

44

(2)

Beatitude

46

(1)

Fvrit aestvs

47

(1)

First dithyramb

48

(12)

Peace

60

(1)

The tenzon

61

(2)

Mouth of the Arno

63

(3)

Between two Amos

66

(2)

The rain in the pine wood

68

(4)

The roots of song

72

(1)

The name

73

(2)

Before dawn

75

(1)

The two eyes of a Pleiad

76

(1)

The tributaries

77

(2)

The camels

79

(4)

Noon

83

(3)

The mothers

86

(3)

Calm

89

(1)

The highest Alps

90

(2)

Gombo

92

(3)

Orphic anniversary

95

(3)

Terra, vale!

98

(1)

Second dithyramb

99

(4)

The oleander

103

(14)

Mouth of the Serchio

117

(7)

The stag

124

(2)

The hippocampus

126

(2)

The wave

128

(3)

The coronal of Glauco

131

(5)

Mèlitta

Sour grapes

Nico

Nicarete

To Nicarete

Gorgo

To Gorgo

The flautist

Baccha

Stabat nvda Aestas

136

(1)

Third dithyramb

137

(3)

Versilia

140

(4)

The death of the stag

144

(5)

The asphodel

149

(3)

Summer madrigals

152

(5)

Supplication

The sands of Time

The footprint

At dawn

At midday

Towards evening

Circean charm

The wind writes

Sea-lanterns

In the slime

The Grecian grape

August festival

157

(3)

The many-headed song

160

(1)

Triton

161

(1)

Roman sarcophagus

162

(1)

Ocean laurel

163

(1)

The prisoner

164

(1)

The Victory of Samothrace

165

(1)

The rupestrian peplos

166

(1)

The vulture of the Sun

167

(1)

The wing on the sea

168

(1)

Altivs egit iter

169

(1)

Fourth dithyramb

170

(17)

Sadness

187

(1)

The Sea-Hours

188

(2)

A goddess of the shore

190

(1)

Undulna

191

(4)

The Thessalian

195

(1)

The goatskin

196

(10)

The signs

206

(1)

Dreams of distant places

207

(7)

The shepherds

The baths

The flock and the herd

Lacus Iuturnae

The loggia

The pack

The carobs

New moon

214

(6)

Envoi

220

(7)

Glossary

227

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