Grey
Looking at an opal, a half-grey opal,
I remembered two beautiful grey eyesI had seen it must have been twenty years before
Looking at an opal, a half-grey opal,
I remembered two beautiful grey eyesI had seen it must have been twenty years before
One monotonous day is followedby another monotonous, identical day
The samethings will happen, they will happen again —the same moments find us and leave us
A month passes and ushers in another month
One easily guesses the coming ev...
It goes on being Alexandria still
Just walk a bitalong the straight road that ends at the Hippodromeand you'll see palaces and monuments that will amaze you
Whatever war-damage it's suffered,however much smaller it's become,it's still a ...
Nero was not worried when he heardthe prophecy of the Delphic Oracle
"Let him fear the seventy three years
"He still had ample time to enjoy himself
He is thirty
He came to read
Two or three booksare open; historians and poets
But he only read for ten minutes,and gave them up
He is dozingon the sofa
Kimos, son of Menedoros, a young Greek-Italian,devotes his life to amusing himself,like most young men in Greater Greecebrought up in the lap of luxury
But today, in spite of his nature,he is preoccupied, dejected
Near the shorehe watche...
Like beautiful bodies of the dead, who had not grown oldand they shut them with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum,with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet —that is how desires look that have passedwithout fulfillment; without one of them hav...
Every so often he vows to start a better life
But when night comes with her own counsels,with her compromises, and with her promises;but when night comes with her own powerof the body that wants and demands, he returns,forlorn, to the same fa...
The Alexandrians were gatheredto see Cleopatra's children,
Caesarion, and his little brothers,
Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the firsttime they lead out to the Gymnasium,there to proclaim kings,in front of the grand assembly of the sol...
They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphias these that had been sent by the two brothers,the rival Ptolemaic kings
After they had received themhowever, the priests were uneasy about the oracle
They will needall their ex...
On an ebony bed decoratedwith coral eagles, sound asleep
Nero —- unconscious, quiet, and blissful;thriving in the vigor of flesh,and in the splendid power of youth
But in the alabaster hall that enclosesthe ancient shrine of the Aenobarb...
Environment, of house, of city centres, city
Which I look upon and where I walk; years and years
I have created you in the midst of joy and in the midst of sorrows;
With so many circumstance s, with so many things