"Arano (Plowing)" by Giovanni Pascoli. English translation, with original Italian text. "Arano (Plowing)," from the collection "Myricae," (1891)

Giovanni Pascoli, as a professor (1882)

The following translation of "Arano (Plowing)" by Giovanni Pascoli, is from the book "The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli: Translated in English, with Original Italian Text," published by LiteraryJoint Press (2017). Also available as Amazon ebook (Free on Kindle Unlimited!)

    Plowing 

In the field, where, rusty-red in the rows,

a few vine leaves shine,  and from the thicket

the morning fog seems smoke,

folk are plowing: with slow cries, one the slow

cows pushes; one plants the seeds; one beats again

the turfs with his patient hoe;

for the sparrow knows and his heart rejoices,

from a mulberry's bristly branches he spies all on;

and the robin: you can hear from the hedges

his delicate tinkling made of gold.

      By Giovanni Pascoli, from the collection "Myricae," (1891)
 

    Arano

Al campo, dove roggio nel filare

qualche pampano brilla, e dalle fratte

sembra la nebbia mattinal fumare,

arano: a lente grida, uno le lente

vacche spinge; altri semina; un ribatte

le porche con sua marra pazïente;

chè il passero saputo in cor già gode,

e il tutto spia dai rami irti del moro;

e il pettirosso: nelle siepi s’ode

il suo sottil tintinno come d’oro.

      
      By Giovanni Pascoli, from the collection "Myricae," (1891)