Day One Hundred and Thirty Two

On this day Percy Bysshe Shelly, the poet, is keeping us company with his poem "The Cloud". Sit back and enjoy.

I sift the snow on the mountains below,

and their great pines grown aghast;

and all the night 'tis my pillow white

while I sleep in the arms of the blast.

[Percy Bysshe Shelley]

LUCIA

Lucia - Turin, Italy - 6.46 am

From my wings are shaken the dews that waken

the sweet buds every one.

[Percy Bysshe Shelley]

GABRIELLA North

Gabriella - Milan, Italy - 7.30 am

CELENIA

Celenia - Empoli, Florence, Italy - 9.06 am

SERENA

Serena - Empoli, Florence, Italy - 10.15 am

And then again I dissolve it in rain,

and laugh as I pass in thunder.

[Percy Bhysse Shelley]

CHIARA

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 10.49 am

GAIA

Gaia - Trieste, Italy - 11.45 am

Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,

over the lakes and the plains, 

wherever he dream, under mountain or stream, 

the Spirit he loves remains.

[Percy Bhysse Shelley]

GABRIELLA North-West

Gabriella - Sanremo, Imperia, Italy - 1.00 pm

ILARIA

Ilaria - Pisa, Italy - 2.13 pm

GABRIELLA North-West

Gabriella - Sanremo, Imperia, Italy - 3.00 pm

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, 

and the nursling of the Sky;

I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores;

I change, but I cannot die.

For after the rain when with never a stain

tha pavillon of Heaven is bare,

and the winds and sunbeams with their complex gleams

build up the blue dome of air

...

[Percy Bysshe Shelley]

GAIA

Gaia - Trieste, Italy - 6.10 pm

...

I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,

and out of the caverns of rain,

like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb,

I arise and unbuild it again.

[Percy Bysshe Shelley]

CHIARA

Chiara - Berlin, Germany - 6.10 pm

And when Sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath,

its ardours of rest and of love,

and the crimson pall of eve may fall,

from the depth of Heaven above,

with wings foldd I rest, on my aery nest,

as still as a brooding dove.

[Percy Bysshe Shelley]

MARISA

Marisa - Roverbella, Mantua, Italy - 6.12 pm