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The poems of Leopardi

Chapter 6: FINIS.
By Giacomo Leopardi
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A collection of lyric poems and short philosophical prose that combines intimate, elegiac verse with reflective dialogues. The poems move between concentrated lyrics of yearning and larger, meditative odes that juxtapose nature's beauty with human suffering, unfulfilled desire, and mortality. Prose pieces interleave skeptical inquiries and concise essays that probe the sources of hope and disillusionment. Imagery is often stark and musical, and the voice alternates lyrical intensity with austere argument, producing a persistent mood of melancholy tempered by intellectual rigor. Overall, the book offers sustained meditations on solitude, the limits of consolation, and the tension between imagination and harsh reality.

[9] Words of a modern writer to whom mil their elegance is due. (Leopardi's note.)

[10] In these verses we perceive the germ of a whole system of ethics.

FINIS.

POEMS

TO ITALY. 33
ON THE MONUMENT OF DANTE ABOUT TO BE ERECTED IN FLORENCE. 40
TO ANGELO MAI 49
ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS SISTER PAOLINA. 58
THE SOLILOQUY OF BRUTUS. 63
TO SPRING; OR, THE FABLES OF ANTIQUITY. 69
HYMN TO THE PATRIARCHS. 74
THE LAST SONG OF SAPPHO. 80
THE FIRST LOVE. 84
THE LONELY BIRD. 89
THE INFINITE. 92
THE HOLIDAY NIGHT. 93
TO THE MOON. 96
SOLITUDE. 97
TO HIS LOVE. 102
THE REVIVAL. 106
TO SILVIA. 115
THE MEMORIES. 119
THE NOCTURNAL SONG OF A NOMADIC SHEPHERD IN ASIA. 127
THE RULING THOUGHT. 134
LOVE AND DEATH. 141
TO HIMSELF. 147
ASPASIA. 148
ON AN ANCIENT SEPULCHRAL BASSO RILIEVO REPRESENTING A MAIDEN
TAKING LEAVE OF HER FRIENDS. 153
THE SETTING OF THE MOON. 159
THE GENISTA OR THE FLOWER OF THE DESERT. 163