XV. o délices d’amour!… – André Chénier

In the editions by G. de Chénier and Moland this piece appears among
the Élégies italiennes, under the title Éloge de la vieillesse. A.
Chénier had marked it [Greek: Eleg. ital]. His design is here, as we are
told in one of his notes, to ‘contredire pied à pied l’élégie contre la
vieillesse.’ The poem has been left unfinished.

L. 5. Rome d’amours…. If we are to take this as a genuine
confession, A. Chénier would have been as sensible to the charms of
the Roman beauties as he is known to have been to those of the Parisian
belles.