My Favorite Poem

NuclearTreeFrogNuclearTreeFrog Posts: 225
edited September 2003 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
To Himself
by: Giacomo Leopardi


Now will you rest forever,
My tired heart. Dead is the last
deception,
That I thought eternal. Dead. Well I
feel
In us the sweet illusions,
Nothing but ash, desire burned out.
Rest forever. You have
Trembled enough. Nothing is worth
Thy beats, nor does the earth
deserve
Thy sighs. Bitter and dull
Is life, there is nought else. The
world is clay.
Rest now. Despair
For the last time. To our kind, Fate
Gives but death. Now despise
Yourself, nature, the sinister
Power that secretly commands our
common ruin,
And the infinite vanity of
everything.
"The sun is shining, but not for me."
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Comments

  • you people have bad taste!
    "The sun is shining, but not for me."
  • Nothing like an insult to restart a dead topic.
  • keven 33keven 33 Posts: 259
    i picture desire fire
    when im told to go
    i stay around



    well why would i stay around when all is loud
    yet i remain silent looking over feeling criminal
    yet love is the overwhelming movement

    there have been so many times when i felt
    like i was from outer space
    when smiles couldnt change any the downward
    plate of viddles i been chompin on

    yet here and now today i feel the spirit of jesus
    in me and all the rhymes that intake to me
    live like the birds and flow like the sea

    well ive got to laugh now cause im turning into
    cheese so take care and let your vines grow

    love and jesus
    convicted
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