100 Poems by Umberto Saba

Author:Umberto Saba
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

I had a child, a woman today.

I saw the best part of myself in her.

Pernicious time managed to discover

even how to snatch her from me, and she sees

the root of her troubles in me, does not turn

her blue eye on me with the old fondness.

All taken from me by the abject Fascist

and the gluttonous German.

I had a beautiful city between the rocky

hills and the shining sea. Mine because

I was born there, mine more than others’ because

I discovered it as a boy, and as an adult

wed it to Italy with my song forever.

One had to live. And therefore I chose

among evils the most dignified: the small

rare bookshop of antiquarian texts.

All taken from me by the inept Fascist

and the gluttonous German.

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