Dance Dance Dance
Oh human child
Come come come
To the waters and the wild
Come come come

All the night weaving old dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
All the night weaving old dances

She’s playing like a child
Come come come
Fantastical and wild
Come come come

Our vats are full of berries
And the reddest stolen cherries
Our vats are full of berries

Are you the blossom or the leaf?
Dance dance dance
Are you the dancer or the dance?
Dance dance dance
Dance and tumble out your hair
Dance dance dance
Blessed be this place greener than grass
Dance dance dance

All the night weaving old dances
Mingling hands and minging glances
All the night weaving old dances

Her face amid a crowd of stars
Sometimes is near sometimes so far

I will kiss her lisp and hands
Among fields greener than grass
I will kiss her lips and hands

All the heavens bow down to heaven
Wing to wing Flame to flame
Wing to wing Flame to flame
Wing to wing Flame to flame

W.B. Yeats

Myyrh

Omnia Munda Mundis

Naturalia non sunt turpia
Aut via inveniam aut faciat
Homo sunt nihil umani ad me alienum puto

Omnia Munda Mundis

Naturalia non sunt turpia
Gutta cavat lapidem
Multa paucis multa paucis
Sursum corda
Luceat lux

Omnia Munda Mundis

Ad maiora
Sursum corda
Sursum corda
Ad maiora

Je me suis perdue
Dans une musique inconnue
D’une beauté déchirante
Aux verts foissonants
Au réveil
Une musique de feuilles
Au réveil
Je vibrais
Au réveil

Un arbre vibrait
Comme une cithare
Moi aussi je vibrais
Les visions
M’emportent ailleurs ailleurs
Je vibrais
Comme une cithare
Elsewhere Ailleurs
Elsewhere Ailleurs
Elsewhere

Francesca Nicoli

Alexandria part I

I had Wild Jack for a lover
When our looks meet
I tremble to the bone
My name is May
May of earth and soul

Fool and fair
Fair and fool

Did she die or did he died ?
Seemed to die or died them both

All things remain in God

Fool and fair
Fair and fool

Did she die or did he died ?
Seemed to die or died them both

For love is but a skein unwound
Between the dark and down
When he turned his head
Passing on passing on
The road that night
Men come men go
Neither I would or not
Men come men go
Love is like the lion’s tooth
Men come passing on

Fool and fair
Fair and fool

Did she die or did he died ?
Seemed to die or died them both

All things remain in God

Fool and fair
Fair and fool

Did she die or did he died ?
Seemed to die or died them both

I had Wild Jack for a lover

When he wound her coal-black hair
As thought to strangle her
No scream no prayer
Eyes under eyelids
Did so glean
Did so glean

Did she die or did he died ?
Seemed to die or died them both
Did she die or did he died ?

Oh, Death give me three things back
That man that man
Oh, Death give me three things back
That day we met
Oh, Death give me three things back
Wild Jack Wild Jack
Oh, Death give me three things back
That man that man
Oh, Death give me three things back
That day we met
Oh, Death give me three things back
Wild Jack Wild Jack
Oh, Death give me three things back
That man that man
Oh, Death give me three things back
That day we met
Oh, Death give me three things back
Wild Jack Wild Jack

W.B. Yeats

Vertical

Tu che canti
Cose belle e pure
E incedi argentea
Calpestando
il nero sonno della notte
scudiera
dalla bella lira
armoniosa
sguardo di rosa
io ti invoco

Vox clamantis
omnia vincit amor
et nos cedamos amor
nomen est omen
nomen est omen
rosa cape

Amica
Offrimi doni
Variopinti e puri
Perché io possa indomita
Adorna di corone
Il canto arcano
Cantare
E intrecciarlo
Al vento e al cielo
Dalle ali distese

Vox clamantis
omnia vincit amor
et nos cedamos amor
nomen est omen
nomen est omen
rosa cape

Quid dulcius
quam habere
quicum omnia
audeas
sic loqui
ut tecum?

Vox clamantis
omnia vincit amor
et nos cedamos amor
nomen est omen
nomen est omen
rosa cape

Francesca Nicoli

Ubiquity

I remember
The long years of childhood
Childhood
Childhood
Childhood
So grey so grey
Upon me upon me
Now they fly they fly
Like floor-clothes
They fly
Fly
Fly
Like devil-fish
Or water snakes
Devil-fish
Devil-fish
Devil-fish

Acid rain acid rain acid rain
Acid rain acid rain acid rain

Bur visions
Always pour fresh and bright
Into my eyes
It’s no effort
no effort
no effort
no effort
As I possess the gift of ubiquity
Ubiquity
Ubiquity
And someone writes for me
Unknown words
In heavens
In heavens
In heavens

Francesca Nicoli

Phoebe

Madre Luna
Trasfusa
Profumo di viola
Rugiada e rosa
Luminosa

Hearts like yours
Seem to trouble the living stream
You, lonely and wild
Old bitterness with a smile
Your curse, your plays
Died the sap out of your veins
Your tender eyes
Grow so unkind

You spread flowers and leaves
And you seem but a dream
Through summer in the sun
But in winter all has gone
May you find roots
Into the truth
I number you in this song
And a terrible beauty is born

You spread flowers and leaves
And you seem but a dream
Through summer in the sun
But in winter all has gone
May you find roots
Into the truth
You, lonely and wild
Old bitterness with a smile
I number you in this song
And a terrible beauty is born
I number you in this song
And a terrible beauty is born

Francesca Nicoli freely inspired by W.B. Yeats

Alexandria part II

Nevica
Sui rami
Laggiù laggiù laggiù
Nevica
Da trapassare le nuvole

Cominciano a cantare
versi, melodie
Risplendono i loro occhi
Antichi argenti
Il distillato è in cammino
Lo senti?
Do you feel it?
Tu le ressens?
Lo sientes ?

Nevica
Sui rami di ciliegio
Nevica
Da trapassare le nuvole

Giunsero a piedi
Giunsero per mare
Giunsero a piedi
E a dorso di mulo
Giunsero a piedi
Giunsero per mare
Giunsero a piedi
E a dorso di mulo
Giunsero a piedi
Giunsero per mare
Giunsero a piedi
E a dorso di mulo
Giunsero a piedi
Giunsero per mare
Giunsero a piedi
E a dorso di mulo

Ancora nevica
Nevica