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A collection of lyrical poems voiced by a young speaker who explores love, desire, identity, and destiny through intimate confessions, prophetic scenes, and religious meditation. Varied moods alternate between passionate eroticism, ironic cosmopolitan self-definition, and moral or spiritual yearning; poems address betrayal, longing, the feminine sensibility, cultural displacement, and imaginative escape. Imagery ranges from quotidian domestic details to visionary religious tableaux, while the voice shifts between defiant proclamations, tender supplication, and ironic critique of convention. The poems blend musical lines and vivid color to present a candid, emotionally intense survey of inner life and poetic ambition.
Avea celate l'ali, e noi scordammo
Che potea volar via;
Avea sì gaio il riso:
Non si credea sentisse nostalgia
Del paradiso!
Angelo già sembrava, e noi scordammo
Che potesse morire.
Con que' timori suoi
Non si credea voless'ella partire
Senza di noi.
Noi l'amavamo tanto! Ma ella, sempre
Così docile e pia,
Sentendosi chiamare
Ha scosso l'ali ed è volata via
Per non tornare.