Contents

Preface by Angela Leighton

Warning

My Nurse’s House

From a Hill

Glauco

Evening

To Mamma

Meditation

A Conscript’s Dream

Random Order

Target

After Lights-out

The Sapling

To My Wife

The Nanny Goat

To My Daughter

Autumn

The Stream

Trieste

Old City

The Cat

After Sadness

Three Streets

Our Time of Day

The Poet

The Wife

New Verses to the Moon

Erotic Melancholy

The Pier

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