Il lampo Giovanni Pascoli E cielo e terra si mostrò qual era: la terra ansante, livida, in sussulto; il cielo ingombro, tragico, disfatto: bianca bianca nel tacito tumulto una casa apparì sparì d’un tratto; come un occhio, che, largo, esterrefatto, s’aprì si chiuse, nella notte nera. |
Lightning Giovanni Pascoli The sky and earth emerged as they were: the gasping earth, livid, gave a start; the encumbered sky, wretched, spent: pasty white in the tacit tumult a house appeared disappeared in an instant; like an eye, which, agape, astonished, opened closed, in dusk’s darkest hour. . Translation ©Matilda Colarossi |
Il lampo (Lightning) is part of the collection Myricae by Giovanni Pascoli, published in 1894.
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