Complete Poems

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Introduction

Translator's Note

Prologue: To Salvatore Quasimodo

And Suddenly It's Evening (1920-1942)

Waters And Lands (l920-1929)

And Suddenly It's Evening

Wind at Tindari

Angels

And Your Dress Is White

Tree

Aries

Deadwater

Earth

Day Stoops

Space

Ancient Winter

Sorrow of Things I Do Not Know

There Was a Sound of Airy Seasons Passing

The Dead

No Night So Clear Ever Vanquished You

You Call on a Life

Cool Seashore

Mirror

No One

Alleyway

Greedily I Spread My Hand Homecomings

Night Birds' Refuge

Even My Company Forsakes Me

Every Form Waylost in Me

Sunken Oboe (1930-I932)

Sunken Oboe

The Eucalyptus

To My Land

Birth of Song

Rest of the Grass

In the Ancient Light of the Tides

Word

Young Woman Lying Back in the Midst of the Flowers

Lesser Curve

One Buried in Me Declares

Playmate

Lament of a Friar in an Icon

Without Memory of Death

Prayer to the Rain

Autumn

Mouth of the River Roja

Woods Sleep

To Night

My Patient Day

Metamorphoses in the Saint's Urn

Came Down to Me Through New Innocence Island

Where the Dead Stand Open-Eyed

Give Me My Day

Convalescence

The Angel

Hidden Life

Changeful with Stars and Quiet

Become Darkness and Height

Water Decomposes Dormice

Seed

First Day

Green Drift

Roads of Rivers in Sleep

Hermaphrodite Earthworm

Suffered Forms of Trees

Living I Sicken

Amen for Sunday in Albis

Erato And Apollyon (1932-1936)

Syllables to Erato

Song of Apollyon

Apollyon

The Ànapo

Dead Heron

On the Hill of the "Terre Blanche"

In Your Light I Am Wrecked

Insomnia

Often a Coastland

Island of Ulysses Salt-Bed in Winter

Sardinia

In Light of Skies

Quarries

For My Mortal Smell

In the Right Human Time

Alien City

In the Feeling of Death

Of the Sinner of Myths

New Poems (1936-1942)

The Magpie Laughs Black in the Orange Trees

Street in Agrigentum

The Gentle Hill

What Is It, Shepherd of Air?

Before the Statue of Ilaria del Carreto

Now Day Is Breaking

The Rain Is Already With Us

One Evening, Snow

Piazza Fontana

The Tall Sailing Ship

On the Banks of the Lambro

Evening in the Màsino Valley

Elegos for the Dancer Cumani

Delphic Woman Imitation of Joy

Horses of Moon and Volcanoes

Again a Green River

Beach at St Antiochus

The Meagre Flower Is Already Flying

Threshold of Puberty

Day After Day (1943-1946)

On the Willow Boughs

Letter

19 January 1944

Snow

Day After Day

Perhaps the Heart

Winter Night

Milan, August 1943

The Wall

O My Gentle Beasts

Written, Perhaps, on a Tomb

This Pilgrim

Fortress of Bergamo Alta

By the Adda

Again I Hear the Sea

Elegy

Of Another Lazarus

The Ferry

Your Silent Foot

Man of My Time

Life Is Not Dream (1946-1948)