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THE DIVINE
COMEDY
OF DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321)
TRANSLATED BY HENRY
WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (18071882)
CONTENTS
Inferno
Virgil’s Appeal.
Ladies Benedight.
Indifferent.
Acheron. Charon.
Castle of Philosophy.
Francesca da Rimini.
Fifth Circle:
della Vigna.
Brunetto Latini.
Rusticucci. Cataract of
Second Bolgia:
Prelates.
Mantua’s Foundation.
Michael Zanche.
Bolgia: Alchemists.
Capocchino.
and Antaeus.
Descent to Cocytus.
their Kindred.
Division, Antenora:
questions
Duera.
Branco d’ Oria.
Benefactors. Lucifer,
Purgatorio
The Rush.
Departure.
repentant.
Malaspina.
Santafiore.
Salvani.
Sapia of Siena.
Calboli. Cities of
Stubbornness.
XV. The Third Circle: The Irascible.
Fifth Circle:
Adrian V.
French Crown.
Earthquake.
Virgil.
Florentine Women.
The Wanton.
Nature of
Dante’s Shame.
Paradiso
Constance.
Broken Vows.
and Compensations.
Empire. Romeo.
Thomas of Aquinas.
Thomas reproaches
Dante’s Judgement.
Cross.
Olden Time.
Cacciaguida’s Discourse of
Dante’s Banishment.
Invectives against
ecclesiastical Avarice.
A.D. 1300.
Kings of old.
Contemplative.
Gabriel.
Dante’s Blindness.
Mobile.’
Hierarchies.
Avaricious Preachers.
Nature.
been lost.
stern,
fear.
found,
there.
terminated,
Which had with consternation pierced
my heart,
shoulders,
road.
throughout
piteously.
breath,
shore,
lower.
o’er!
face,
way,
morning,
those stars
That with him were, what time the
Love Divine
things;
season;
fear
coming
hunger,
him;
came,
height.
lose,
despondent,
peace,
degrees
silent.
lowland,
silence hoarse.
man!”
was,
Lombardy,
late,
Augustus,
Troy,
annoyance?
Delectable,
joy?”
fountain
of speech?”
forehead.
volume!
Thou art my master, and my author thou,
took
to me.
turned back;
Sage,
tremble.”
weeping,
escape;
out,
will,
Greyhound
her pain.
virtue;
nation be;
died,
wounds;
Through every city shall he hunt her
down,
Hell,
her loose.
guide,
place,
lamentations,
disconsolate,
death;
are
people;
ascend,
worthy;
thee;
above,
his city.
reigns;
never know,
worse,
disconsolate.”
followed.
Inferno: Canto II
air
woe,
retrace.
I saw,
confide me.
effect
and what,
empire
the truth,
wherein
him vaunt,
were
mantle.
Vessel,
Faith,
beginning.
speak.”
willed,
change,
withdraws,
emprise,
beginning.
“If I have well thy language understood,”
Magnanimous,
enterprise,
shy.
apprehension,
heard
thee.
Star;
language:
endures,
world;
fortune,
through terror,
succour,
Heaven.
ornate,
release,
return;
to speak.
began:
contained
circles,
late;
wish.
shun
centre,
return to.’
discern,
harm;
fearful.
burning.
thee,
broken.
in need
Of thee, and unto thee I recommend
him.”
place
Rachel.
God,
herd?
him
vaunt?”
woe,
uttered,
seat,
listened to it.’
away;
coming;
beast,
Which barred the beautiful mountain’s
short ascent.
delay?
heart?
not,
Heaven,
promise thee?”
whitens them,
stems;
strength,
And such good courage to my heart
there coursed,
me,
so soon
addressed to thee!
disposed
thine,
Master thou.”
moved,
I entered on the deep and savage way.
dolent;
lost.
Love.
to me!”
abandoned,
extinct.
intellect.”
comforted,
loud
star,
thereat.
whirlwind breathes.
bound,
hear?
so vanquished?”
choir
been,
less fair;
receives,
from them.”
sore?”
briefly.
debased,
be;
Misericord and Justice both disdain
them.
pass.”
banner,
rapidly,
indignant;
believed
recognised,
refusal.
Forthwith I comprehended, and was
certain,
wretches
alive,
exceedingly
there.
blood,
their feet
up.
vouchsafe to me,
what law
over,
known
stay
downward cast,
him,
the river.
heavens;
soul,
are dead!”
withdraw,
for passage;
Charon;
do
That which is willed; and farther
question not.”
of flame.
naked
teeth together,
words.
progenitors,
seed
God.
glede,
together,
behind.
branch
by one,
me,
God
on,
soul;
thee,
speech imports.”
champaign
terror
The recollection bathes me still with
sweat.
wind,
fell.
Inferno: Canto IV
wakened;
eyes,
ululations.
world,”
be.”
afraid,
fears?”
people
taken.
Let us go on, for the long way impels
us.”
enter
abyss.
torment,
and great,
ask
beholdest, are?
farther,
baptism
holdest;
God;
punished,
desire.”
I heard,
worthiness
Lord,”
error,
thereafter?”
speech,
First Parent,
obedient
much,
blessed;
these
spake,
the forest,
ghosts.
darkness.
not
science,
honour have,
them?”
life,
them.”
me:
departed.”
After the voice had ceased and quiet
was,
us;
glad.
behold,
their lord.
satirist;
applies
proclaimed,
They do me honour, and in that do
well.”
somewhat,
salutation,
smiled;
band;
wit.
silent,
walls,
ground;
these Sages;
verdure.
slow,
voices.
Thus we withdrew ourselves upon one
side
spirits,
exalted.
Aeneas,
Latinus,
forth,
Lucretia, Julia, M
know,
honour.
There I beheld bo
stand;
Democritus, who p
chance,
Diogenes, Anaxag
spouse;
rules.
The next is she who killed herself for
love,
Sichaeus;
Achilles,
Love.
thousand
his finger,
life.
bewildered.
And I began: “O Poet, willingly
together,
light.”
shall be
them
will come.”
them,
it.”
desire,
sweet nest
Fly through the air by their volition
borne,
is,
benignant,
air
incarnadine,
friend,
peace,
perverse.
Of what it pleases thee to hear and
speak,
to you,
descends
seize,
loving,
desert me;
life!”
them to us.
tormented,
down
thinkest?”
much desire,
pass!”
Then unto them I turned me, and I spake,
Francesca,
make me.
sighs,
conceded,
desires?”
sorrow
speaks.
enthral.
us.
smile
divided,
palpitating.
wrote it.
therein.”
pity,
Inferno: Canto VI
closed
confused me,
tormented
snow,
Athwart the tenebrous air pour down
amain;
this.
barking
submerged.
black,
his hands;
them.
dogs;
other;
Oft turn themselves the wretched
reprobates.
worm!
his tusks;
extended,
well filled,
gullets.
craves,
gnaws,
struggles,
thunders
deaf.
subdues
our feet
earth,
Hell,”
hast
remembrance,
thee.
doleful
displeasing.”
Ciacco;
rain.
And I, sad soul, am not the only one,
spake he.
wretchedness
me;
shall come
assailed it.”
contention,
party
other
coast.
while,
indignant.
there;
enkindled.”
me,
speech.
thoughts,
know them;
learn
envenom.”
souls;
bottom;
If thou so far descendest, thou canst see
them.
world,
me;
answer.”
askance,
head;
blind.
more
trumpet;
Potentate,
Each one shall find again his dismal
tomb,
figure,
mixture
slow,
torments here,
sentence,
burning?”
perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of
pain.
be.”
repeat;
descent is;
began;
knew,
Said, to encourage me: “Let not thy fear
have
crag.”
lip,
wolf;
rage.
abyss;
Michael wrought
mast,
So fell the cruel monster to the earth.
chasm,
shore
insacks.
many
us so?
Charybdis,
encounters,
roundelay.
Here saw I people, more than
elsewhere, many,
howls,
of chest.
point
retrograde,
squanderest thou?”
evermore.
wheeled about
me
clerks,
us.”
spending made.
the circle,
defect.
covering
Cardinals,
In whom doth Avarice practise its
excess.”
maladies.”
entertainest;
sordid
dim.
buttings;
again
tresses shorn.
in this scuffle;
transient farce
Fortune,
buffet;
also
speakest of,
clutches?”
you?
judgment of her.
transcends
splendours
guide,
treasures
another,
Beyond resistance of all human
wisdom.
another
judgment,
serpent.
against her;
pursues
gods.
praise,
repute.
gladsome
rejoices.
ascending
forbidden.”
itself
waves,
uncouth.
Styx,
descended
shores.
lagoon,
hands,
and feet,
Tearing each other piecemeal with
their teeth.
beholdest
overcame;
for certain
surface,
turns.
were
gladdened,
reek;
Now we are sullen in this sable mire.’
their throats,
say it.”
fen
swamp,
the mire;
come,
it,
By reason of two flamelets we saw
placed there,
it.
respondeth
made it?”
discern,
swift,
moment,
fell soul?”
vain
slough.”
resents it,
wrath.
laden.
boat,
dividing
others.
canal,
the hour?”
not;
squalid?”
wailing,
defiled.”
boat;
back,
dogs!”
neck;
“Disdainful soul,
bosom.
That was an arrogant person in the
world;
memory;
there,
mire,
dispraises!”
pleased,
broth,
it.
Argenti!”
own teeth.
not;
lamentation,
eyes.
my Son,
Dis,
With the grave citizens, with the great
throng.”
clearly
eternal
look red,
profound,
city;
pilot
entrance.”
angrily
death
dead?”
disdain,
begone
dominions.
remain,
dark regions.”
times
me
stood,
swiftly.”
passage
given.
thee.”
doubt,
contend.
them;
long,
adversaries,
remained without
between.
had he
sighs,
houses?”
planned.
inscription;
steep,
escort,
opened.”
Inferno: Canto IX
on me,
turn,
colour.
listens,
heavy fog.
herself…
arrive!”
beginning
afterward,
fear,
phrase,
had.
“Into this bottom of the doleful conch
grade,
off?”
their bodies.
been,
enter,
Judas;
circles all.
Well know I the way; therefore be
reassured.
exhales,
anger.”
it;
me
blood,
mien,
tresses,
entwined.
Queen
Erinnys.
Alecto;
silent.
her nails;
cried so loud,
That I for dread pressed close unto the
Poet.
change him!”
assault!”
close shut,
be.”
round
itself
verses!
waves
fraught,
trembled;
restraint,
bears away;
superb,
And puts to flight the wild beasts and
the shepherds.
the nerve
intense.”
serpent
foot
unwet.
air,
was he,
sign
before him.
rod
resistance.
despised!”
threshold;
couched?
your pain?
peeled.”
look
goads
city,
holds,
the Rhone,
borders,
uneven;
side,
bitter;
scattered,
were,
laments,
tormented.
people
tombs,
sighs?”
Heresiarchs,
much
tombs.
heated.”
And when he to the right had turned, we
passed
Inferno: Canto X
impious circles
tombs,
uplifted
guard.”
up
above.
soul;
satisfied,
silent.”
concealed
the less,
disposed me.”
place.
manifest
pressed,
dost thou?
front
E’en as if Hell he had in great despite.
my Leader
towards him,
be.”
disdainful,
ancestors?”
him;
upward.
they been
To me, and to my fathers, and my party;
them.”
all sides,”
second;
aright.”
uncovered
with me,
blind
with thee?”
here,
had.”
punishment
alive?
supine
more.
desire
change,
side.
learned aright,
bed.
reigns here,
return,
laws?”
great carnage
Arbia, cause
made.”
surely
moved.
repose,”
here.
rightly,
with it,
sight,
from us;
Sovereign Ruler.
When they draw near, or are, is wholly
vain
state.
dead
moment when
closed.”
fallen one,
joined.
dumb,
me.”
spirit
him there.
here I lie;
speak not.”
reflecting
to me.
going,
heard
me,
his finger.
sweet
behold,
thy life.”
middle,
Inferno: Canto XI
made,
throng;
out,
cover
writing,
drew.”
heed it.”
pass not
that.
circles,
thee,
constraint.
Of every malice that wins hate in
Heaven,
others.
lowest
them.
three persons,
constructed.
neighbour can we
things,
manifest.
substance
unjustly,
round
the second
repent
himself,
property,
bounty.
round
the heart.
stung,
trusts,
imburse.
dissevers
Only the bond of love which Nature
makes;
nestle
magic,
filth.
added,
engendered.
point is
seated,
proceeds
distinguishes
possess it.
tongues,
wrath,
fashion?”
elsewhere looking?
discusses
abides not,
attracts?
penance,
these felons
hammer.”
“O Sun, that healest all distempered
vision,
resolvest,
knowing!
said I,
offends
knot.”
heeds it,
course
master;
grandchild.
mind
advance;
hope.
horizon,
crag.”
came
moreover,
shun it.
it moved,
was above;
along,
cow;
“Peradventure
of Athens,
to thee?
not
moment
blow,
there,
passage;
While he wroth, ‘tis well thou shouldst
descend.”
discharge
themselves
burden.
thinking
guarded
quenched.
time
spoil
circle,
valley
Universe
chaos;
overthrow.
near
others.”
life,
us!
encompasses,
said.
foot
with arrows,
still,
themselves,
selected;
torment
descending?
bow.”
make
hasty.”
take.
gazing,
Achilles;
wrathful.
moat
emerges
allots.”
monsters fleet;
Chiron an arrow took, and with the
notch
beard.
ware
touches?
men.”
his breast,
joined,
alone
valley;
Halleluja,
office;
moving
My steps along th
thoroughfare,
us,
ford,
back;
about,
meet you.”
honour;
lying
dealt it.”
silent,”
satisfy me;
man
implores,
canst,
freed.”
afterward
converted:
hurls it,
germinates.
leaves,
outlet.
return;
off.
dismal
shade.”
tell us,
When by a tumult we were overtaken,
stand,
and branches;
side,
furiously,
Death, help!”
too much,
Toppo!”
was failing,
He grouped himself together with a
bush.
foot
the chain.
their teeth,
members.
lacerations.
screen?
steps,
wounds so many
dolorous speech?”
leaves,
for this
Arno
still,
Those citizens, who afterwards rebuilt it
done.
gibbet.”
scattered leaves,
was hoarse.
disparted
where
plant;
our feet.
pressed.
thou
read
eyes!
diverse.
lying;
together,
And others went about continually.
the more,
their torment,
lamentation.
fall,
fire,
the ground.
vapour
Better extinguished was while it was
single;
tinder
dole.
here,
gleeds.
overcomest
issued
heed not
The fire, and lieth lowering and
disdainful,
him?”
him,
dead.
whom
thunderbolt,
smitten,
help!’
Even as he did there at the fight of
Phlegra,
might,
vengeance.”
great force,
loud:
more;
lip,
Saying: “One of the Seven Kings was
he
seems to hold
him;
place
wood.”
there gushes
stand on end.
As from the Bulicame springs the
brooklet,
them,
its way.
the side;
passage was.
thee
gate
eyes
quenches.”
food,
desire.
is Crete,
chaste.
glad
better,
Whene’er he cried, she there had
clamours made.
erect,
Damietta,
mirror.
breast;
fork.
iron,
clay,
other.
Each part, except the gold, is by a
fissure
tears,
cavern.
valley;
form;
sluice
descending.
be
narrated.”
world,
us?”
is round,
journeyed far,
bottom,
turned.
us,
face.”
found
silent,
And sayest the other of this rain is
made?”
please me,”
thou makest.
moat,
themselves,
removed.”
after me;
burning,
Inferno: Canto XV
margins,
it,
dikes.
and Bruges,
hurls itself,
flight;
them.
Now were we from the forest so remote,
was,
encountered,
one
brows
seized
“What a marvel!”
And I, when he stretched forth his arm to
me,
eyes,
prevented not
own,
Brunetto?”
son,
Latini
on.”
it;
And if you wish me to sit down with
you,
years,
fire.
come,
doom.”
bowed
fate
Before the last day leadeth thee down
here?
way?”
completed.
thither,
road.”
port,
thee,
work.
descended,
the granite,
foe;
sorbs
blind;
thee,
grass.
the plant,
there when
became.”
placed;
now
My heart the dear and good paternal
image
hour
eternal;
live
discerned.
text
chide me,
around
mattock.”
at me;
noteth it.”
companions.
well;
much speech.
Know them in sum, that all of them were
clerks,
fame,
sin.
crowd,
seen there
scurf,
Servants
Bacchiglione,
nerves.
sand.
be;
of those
Mantle
among them
loses.
reverberation
Of water falling into the next round,
beehives make,
forth,
passed
martyrdom.
cried out:
seemest
limbs,
in!
It pains me still but to remember it.
attentive;
“Now wait,”
courteous.
than them.”
recommenced
overtook us,
three of them.
wont to do,
Watching for their advantage and their
hold,
between them,
visage
made.
entreaties,”
blistered,
securely
Hell.
He in whose footprints thou dost see me
treading,
go,
think;
Gualdrada;
sword.
sand,
welcome be.
placed,
fire,
among them,
suffered it;
myself,
them.
within me
approaching.
I of your city am; and evermore
names
heard.
fruits
Leader;
plunge.”
conduct
answer then,
thee,
torment
comrades,
words.”
gains,
engendered,
already!”
uplifted;
truth.
“If other times so little it doth cost thee,”
will!
dark places,
stars,
was,’
people.”
their flight
wings.
depart.
us,
been heard.
own course
East,
enough;
water,
offended.
I had a cord around about me girt,
skin.
coiled,
side,
respond,”
so.”
be
thoughts!
come
dreaming
falsehood,
may be,
shame;
notes
favour,
Athwart that dense and darksome
atmosphere
has grappled
hidden,
feet.
tail,
world.”
to shore,
Near to the confine of the trodden
marble;
bust,
benign,
sides it had
shields.
broidery
Turks,
shore,
there,
war;
border,
sand.
void,
fork,
point.
descended,
verge,
flame;
away,
is.
him,
woe;
hot soil.
muzzle, when
bitten.
faces
falling,
pouch,
blazon;
feeding.
them,
is.
gravid
white,
Said unto me: “What dost thou in this
moat?
alive,
Vitaliano,
side.
ears,
cavalier,
goats;’”
thrust
nose.
And fearing lest my longer stay might
vex
long,
weary souls.
mounted
and bold.
these;
midway,
harm thee.”
already,
shade;
words;
good master.
shoulders;
not
embrace me.”
sustained me,
And said: “Now, Geryon, bestir thyself;
little;
hast.”
shore,
withdrew;
moved,
air.
were scorched;
wax,
takest!”
myself
extinguished
monster.
slowly;
only
whirlpool
cast downward.
abyss;
laments,
cling.
horrors
sides.
wing,
Who, without seeing either lure or bird,
stoopest,”
swiftly,
disdainful;
bottom,
rock,
persons,
Malebolge,
Wholly of stone and of an iron colour,
and deep,
recount.
remains
hard bank,
bottom.
castles,
forms,
Just such an image those presented there;
their gates
moats,
collects them.
back
anguish,
lash,
Wherewith the foremost Bolgia was
replete.
naked;
us,
steps;
over;
Peter’s;
Mountain.
scourges,
one
third.
“Already
With sight of this one I am not unfed.”
out,
stand,
assented;
himself,
him;
thine eyes,
bearest,
pungent sauces?”
world.
Marquis,
told.
here;
taught
proof,
scourge
A demon smote him, and said: “Get
thee gone
coin.”
came
bank.
departed.
hollowed out
scourged,
thee strike
The vision of those others evil-born,
faces,
gone.”
train
border,
smite.
inquiring,
coming,
tear;
cunning
words
deceived.
forlorn;
condemns him,
deceive;
holds.”
forms
making moan
muzzles,
themselves
mould
there,
war.
ascending
impends.
flow;
search,
ordure,
layman.
so eager
ones?”
Lucca;
Therefore I eye thee more than all the
others.”
pumpkin:
below,
surfeited.”
thou thrust
advance,
attain
filthy nails,
standing.
Thais the harlot is it, who replied
‘Have I
marvellous;’
to be
sound,
hangs plumb.
showest
In heaven, in earth, and in the evil
world,
distribute!
round.
greater
John
baptisers,
drowning in it;
protruded
The feet of a transgressor, and the legs
fire;
quivered,
wont
point.
himself,
quivering,”
thee
lowest lies,
himself.”
pleasing;
depart not
not spoken.”
arrived;
descended
narrow.
And the good Master yet from off his
haunch
brought me
shanks.
down,
out.”
confessing
fixed,
delayed.
already,
Dost thou stand there already,
Boniface?
wealth,
fraud
woe?”
them,
answer.
straightway,
feet,
lamentation
me?
the bank,
mantle;
wealth
down
whenever
thou wast,
proposed.
down,
reddened feet;
law,
this one.”
treasure
chosen
punished,
money,
Charles.
And were it not that still forbids it me
life,
grievous still;
world,
depraved.
waters
seen;
born,
horns received,
So long as virtue to her spouse was
pleasing.
and silver;
worship?
mother,
dower
from thee!”
these,
stung him,
feet.
I think in sooth that it my Leader
pleased,
ever
expressed.
up,
breast,
descended.
him;
is passage.
valley.
Inferno: Canto XX
verses
canto
submerged.
depth,
valley,
them,
distorted
was turned,
advance,
from them.
awry;
thyself
How I could ever keep my face
unmoistened,
parts.
fools?
divine?
whom
eyes;
rushest thou,
Amphiaraus? Why dost leave the war?’
amain
shoulders!
before him
his way:
changed,
transformed;
once more
plumes.
belly,
grubs
stars
him.
breasts,
loosened tresses,
born;
enslaved,
the world.
Above in beauteou
By a thousand spri
is bathed,
Pennino,
lake.
Midway a place is
Pastor,
crag
loosened
downward;
bridge,
place!
Serchio;
not,
hundred rakes;
They said: “It here behoves thee to
dance covered,
pilfer.”
make
float.
not
down
some screen;
know,
scuffle.”
Then he passed on beyond the bridge’s
head,
front.
stops,
bridge,
grappling-irons;
malignant!
me,
hear me,
And then take counsel as to grappling
me.”
still,
avails it?”
said,
fence,
auspicious?
him,
sittest
crouched down,
him;
themselves,
their compact.
soldiers
Caprona,
person
Beside my Leader, and turned not mine
eyes
not good.
rump?”
parley
quickly,
Scarmiglione;”
lying
onward,
hour,
was broken.
vicious.
Cagnazzo;
pitch;
escort,
ask none.
their teeth,
woe to us?”
wretches.”
about;
between
signal;
camp,
make,
escape;
run,
with bells,
castles,
things,
demons;
gluttons!
Bolgia,
burned.
Even as the dolphins, when they make a
sign
their vessel,
back,
lightens.
out,
bulk,
came,
withdrew.
I saw, and still my heart doth shudder at
it,
pass
dives;
him,
with pitch,
otter.
chosen,
listened how.
canst,
luckless wight,
replied:
Thibault;
heat.”
projected,
On either side, a tusk, as in a boar,
could rip.
come;
arms,
enfork him.”
head;
wish
destroy him.”
culprits;
it;
him,
hook!”
much;”
arm,
tendon.
upon him
Decurion
look.
wound,
luckless parting
ashore?”
Gomita,
hand,
thereat;
off,
sovereign.
Zanche
tired.
teeth;
afraid
ready.”
Farfarello,
strike,
malicious bird.”
“If you desire either to see or hear,”
thereon,
them come.
fear,
lifted,
the trick
himself!”
abundance had,
pitch;
shield
us.”
sport!
it.
moment
their design.
Whereat each one was suddenly stung
with shame,
defeat;
art o’ertakern.”
under,
directed;
approaching,
weary.
desirous
The other should escape, to have a
quarrel.
companion,
moat.
sparhawk
them
naught,
belimed.
descended;
pitch-ensnared,
crust,
them.
after,
quarrel,
mouse;
For ‘mo’ and ‘issa’ are not more alike
couple
mind.
springs,
another,
made.
account
scoff
them.
seizes,”
intent,
Malebranche
behind us;
attract
own,
opinion,
outstretched wings,
us.
wakened,
enkindled flames,
not stop,
herself,
sluice
mill,
approaches,
border,
away,
companion.
ordained
moat,
from all.
slow,
and vanquished.
down
cut
made.
straw.
hand
plaint;
haunch.
known,
about.”
And one, who understood the Tuscan
speech,
feet,
demandest.”
said: “Wait,
proceed.”
haste
delayed them.
askance
together:
living;
college
Arno,
down
Along your cheeks such grief as I
behold?
sparkles?”
cloaks
weights
creak.
were such
Gardingo.”
“O Friars,” began I, “your iniquitous…”
there rushed
ground.
over,
suspirations;
this,
thou seest,
meet
people.
weighs;
punished
council,
seed.”
cross
tell us
here,
Without constraining some of the black
angels
deep.”
hopest
circle
valleys,
bridge it;
rises.”
bowed down;
recounted
Who grapples with his hook the sinners
yonder.”
vices
them,
went on,
looks;
departed
tempers,
And now the nights draw near to half
the day,
ground
white,
him,
champaign
his flank,
laments,
what to do;
countenance
In little time, and takes his shepherd’s
crook,
drives.
disturbed,
plaster.
sweet look
beheld.
advisement
beforehand,
summit
afterwards,
thee.”
cloak;
upward,
precinct
other,
beat.
import
asunder.
away,
farther,
sloth,”
down,
earth,
the anguish
departed;
me.”
myself,
bold.”
difficult,
And more precipitous far than that
before.
exhausted;
came forth,
back
was speaking.
eyes
dark;
arrive
At the next round, and let us descend the
wall;
understand not,
distinguish.”
not,
silence.”
head,
bank,
Bolgia;
blood
Amphisbaena,
malignant
affrighted.
entwined.
And lo! at one who was upon our side
transfixed him
shoulders.
written,
wholly
destroyed,
themselves
confessed
again,
When it approaches its five-hundredth
year;
amomum,
winding-sheet.
how,
drag him,
anguish
sighs;
poureth down!
was;
Tuscany
me,
Fucci,
not,
below,
saw him.”
And the sinner, who had heard,
dissembled not,
painted.
hast caught me
taken.
robbed
another;
enjoy,
If thou shalt e’er be out of the dark
places,
hear:
manners;
Magra,
round,
asunder,
smitten.
pain.”
aim them.”
my friends;
more;”
rebound him,
make.
excellest?
the walls!
word;
the scoffer?”
begins.
lying,
encounters.
brothers,
made
him;
beneath
peradventure
ten.”
passed by,
Leader,
you?”
halt,
chance,
compelled,
remained?”
attend,
laid.
If thou art, Reader, slow now to believe
brows,
forth
him.
paunch,
seized;
thighs,
two,
And up behind along the reins
outspread it.
own.
wax
their colour;
was;
colour,
dies.
them
one.”
mingled
lost.
arms,
chest
seen.
cancelled;
image
pace.
Even as a lizard, under the great scourge
bellies
extended.
naught;
yawned,
him.
commingled.
mentions
shot forth.
not;
forms
together.
The legs together with the thighs
themselves
juncture
apparent.
figure
armpits,
short,
were.
twisted,
conceals,
And of his own the wretch had two
created.
lamps,
changed.
temples,
thither,
cheeks;
retained
Of that excess made to the face a nose,
befitting.
forward,
head,
horns;
apt
ceases.
changed,
sputters.
Then did he turn upon him his new
shoulders,
run,
road.”
might be
dismayed,
companions,
changed;
great,
wings,
abroad!
risest.
true,
thee.
And if it now were, it were not too soon;
must be,
age.
stairs
before,
me.
all.
wont,
That it may run not unless virtue guide it;
thing,
grudge it.
the world
from us,
gnat)
valley,
avenged him
uprose,
alone,
upward,
intrenchment
theft,
attent,
are;
wherewith he burns.”
ask thee
cleft
placed.”
tormented
lament
the door
seed;
being dead
borne.”
power
pray,
thousand,
towards it.”
accept it;
itself.
conceived
disdain
discourse of thine.”
point,
place,
verses,
die.”
horn,
fatigues.
spake,
“When I
concealed me
Penelope,
company
round about.
arrived
signals,
Seville,
thousand
West,
world.
sprang;
brutes,
knowledge.’
So eager did I render my companions,
voyage,
back.
morning,
flight,
quenched
moon,
pass,
dim
From distance, and it seemed to me so
high
weeping;
rose,
ship.
the waters,
uplift,
pleased Another,
right,
afflicted,
brass,
language
Converted were the melancholy words.
way
vibration
passage out,
speaking Lombard,
urge thee,’
thee;
burning.
transgression,
war,
between
bursts.”
side,
is.”
concealed,
now.
stood;
vans.
resistance,
again;
new,
Montagna,
their teeth.
and winter;
flank,
mountain,
been,
world.”
moved
such breath:
return,
betide,
thee hear.
pulp
craft,
forth.
ought
ropes,
displeased me;
surrendered,
bestead me;
Jews,
For each one of his enemies was
Christian,
Acre,
orders,
more meagre;
Sylvester
silent,
afraid;
Henceforth I thee absolve; and thou
instruct me
unlock,
are two,
dear.’
advice;
me
short
seat.’
wrong;
servitors,
Because he gave
his hair;
once,
Because of the co
consents not.’
O miserable me! ho
When he seized o
‘Peradventure
logician!’
He bore me unto M
prayer.”
of thee,
mouth
speaks not.
submerged
slit,
had,
air,
face,
also,
end!’
people.”
added;
afraid,
Without some further proof, even to
recount,
me,
man
manner
herd.
dissevered,
lantern,
me!”
two;
ordains it.
foot,
words,
penalty,
beholding;
same
goadings.
trunk.
counterpoise.”
and weep;
gaze at?
there
Among the mournful, mutilated shades?
believest,
winds,
feet;
seest.”
thereupon,
looked,
have pardoned.”
Meanwhile my Guide departed, and
behind him
fixed,
so much.”
broken
upon him;
remain;
his finger
Fiercely, and heard him called Geri del
Bello.
impeded
departed.”
said,
away,
more.”
shows
light.
cloister
sight,
and through,
arrows barbed,
hands.
hospitals
gathered,
came from it
issue.
still,
sight
ministress
records.
I do not think a sadder sight to see
people,
again,)
valley
crawling
road.
their bodies.
other,
platter,
scabs;
waits,
bream,
dismail thee,”
then,
suffice thee
seest,
reply;
descends
cliff,
to me,
rebound.
gather,
wishest.”
men,
But so may it survive ‘neath many suns,
people;
punishment
me.”
here.
only
me
son.
practised,
condemned.”
me,
Stricca,
expenses,
takes root;
squandered
woods,
And where his wit the Abbagliato
proffered!
second thee
eye
answer thee,
shade,
thee,
enraged,
shown,
twain
take
passage;”
Learchus,
him on a rock;
drowned herself;
dared,
crushed,
distorted;
Trojan
human members,
naked,
turned loose.
dragging
remained,
Schicchi,
people.”
lover.
manner,
back
forked.
concocts,
belly,
thirst
turns.
woe,”
wished,
moist,
up
of flesh.
which
flight.
There is Romena, where I counterfeited
Baptist,
brother,
sight.
speak truth;
tied?
inch,
florins,
wretches
winter,
confines?”
rained
turned,
Joseph,
Troy;
reek.”
annoyed
darkly,
paunch.
face,
hard,
me
All motion, for my limbs that heavy
are,
didst go
wast coining.”
there,
at Troy.”
coin,”
here,
demon.”
“Remember, perjurer, about the horse,”
belly,
knows it.”
cracks
putrid water
eyes.”
wide
wont;
stuff me
aches,
And to lick up the mirror of Narcissus
invite thee.”
look,
thee.”
such shame
harm,
dream,
not;
speak,
it.
fault,”
been;
sadness,
thee,
thee
dispute;
wounded me,
So that it tinged the one cheek and the
other,
cause
valley,
than day,
horn,
thunder faint,
place.
After the dolorous discomfiture
lost,
held
see,
this?”
forth
distance,
there,
distance;
Therefore a little faster spur thee on.”
advanced,
bank,
them.”
conceals,
darksome air,
towers,
the well
menaces
thunders.
the belly,
arms.
making
not
against it.
large
Peter’s,
bones;
much of him
them;
For I beheld thirty great palms of him
mantle buckles.
psalms.
that,
thee.
the belt
soul,
breast.”
accuse;
used.
vain;
known.”
oft
large.
other,
uncovered
experiment
Jove,”
guerdon.
prowess.
moves.”
experience.”
Antaeus
unbound,
place us.
wouldst see,
this one,
ferocious.”
might
violently,
fear,
ells
cavern.
hosts,
prey,
war
think
have gained:
Place us below, nor be disdainful of it,
Cocytus up.
longed for;
thy lip.
fame;
life,
Guide,
once felt.
Virgilius, when he felt himself
embraced,
take thee;”
made.
cloud
was
way.
up
there delay,
stridulous,
rocks,
conception
not,
speak;
universe,
Nor for a tongue that cries Mamma and
Babbo.
mine,
Thebes,
diverse.
is hard,
or goats!
darksome well,
feet
brothers!”
before me
frost
water.
current
Don,
a creak.
himself
dreaming
appears,
the ice,
storks.
downward bent;
doleful heart
looked,
I downward turned me, and saw two so
close,
mingled.
tell me,”
their necks,
lifted,
within,
congealed
again.
wood
downward,
in us?
are,
Albert.
find a shade
shadow
encumbers
forward,
Mascheroni;
art Tuscan.
speech,
comes a shudder,
ponds.
And while we were advancing tow’rds
the middle,
together,
shade,
chance,
heads
trample me?
vengeance
me?”
me,
That I through him may issue from a
doubt;
wish.”
said
still:
others?”
Antenora
cheeks,
much?”
fame,
That ‘mid the other notes thy name I
place.”
more trouble;
hollow.”
him,
thyself,
my hair,
thee,
fall.”
pulled out,
down,
Bocca?
thee?”
speak,
wilt,
French;
Duera
cold.’
was there,
asunder;
slep.”
other;
And even as bread through hunger is
devoured,
teeth,
united.
things.
sign
eating,
this compact,
transgression,
I in the world above repay thee for it,
up.”
wasted.
heart already
fruit
together.
mode
Thou hast come down here; but a
Florentine
thee.
Archbishop;
neighbour.
have heard,
Famine,
locked up,
moons
dream
master,
mountain
well trained,
forespent
tushes
ripped open.
sons
bread.
not,
me,
drew nigh
apprehensive;
a word
mine
thereafter,
‘twill give us
us
it off.’
sad.
next.
Gaddo
help me?’
between
betook me,
were dead;
do.”
distorted,
teeth,
strong.
Ah! Pisa, thou opprobrium of the people
doth sound,
neighbours are,
Arno
drown!
Thebes!
Brigata,
the ice
reversed.
weep,
eyes
anguish;
full.
motion?
quenched?”
be where
this,
the blast.”
crust
my heart
me help thee
not,
dead?”
possess.
here
remove
tears,
Know that as soon as any soul betrays
it,
revolved.
body
behind me.
come down;
years
locked up.”
deceive me;
For Branca d’ Oria is not dead as yet,
puts on clothes.”
Malebranche,
pitch,
betrayal.
forthwith,
not,
deeds
thee,”
him.”
when
turning,
saw;
shelter.
it,
covered up,
straws in glass.
the soles;
proceeded,
me
beauteous semblance,
He from before me moved and made me
stop,
place
thyself.”
then,
insufficient.
of wit,
the ice;
his;
whole,
Maker,
tribulation.
was;
with this
shoulder,
And they were joined together at the
crest;
valley-ward.
wings,
them,
therefrom.
three chins
drivel.
At every mouth he with his teeth was
crunching
spine
remained.
greatest pain,”
without.
are,
is Brutus;
See how he writhes himself, and
speaks no word.
Cassius.
whole.”
place,
apart,
then
crust.
When we were come to where the thigh
revolves
his legs,
mounts,
returning.
these,”
fatigued,
much evil.”
issued,
passed.
feet;
returns.”
natural,
little;
Where is the ice? and how is this one
fixed
short time
transit?”
grasped
the world.
descended;
every side,
come
Opposite that which overhangs the vast
put to death
lived.
Judecca.
made us
heaven;
emerged,
peradventure
To flee from him, what on this side
appears
recoiled.”
sound
it has gnawed
slightly falls.
world;
stars.
itself,
worthy.
of pardon.
aspect
air,
incites,
escort.
mind
people.
heaven.
these!
When from regarding them I had
withdrawn,
already,
look,
intermingled
tresses,
breast.
light,
That him I saw as
him.
river,
prison?”
said:
lamp
In issuing forth ou
profound,
valley?
Purgatorio: Canto II
Scales
That fall from out her hand when she
exceedeth;
cheeks
orange.
road,
morning,
fiery red
equalled;
withdrawn
Conductor,
larger.
underneath it
unfolded;
pilot,
hands!
officers!
distant shores.
heaven,
mortal hair!”
came
appeared,
him,
thereof.
within.
written.
them,
shore,
unfamiliar
them gazing,
As one who in new matters makes
essay.
shafts
Capricorn,
faces
mountain.”
this place,
yourselves.
you,
Another way, which was so rough and
steep,
sport to us.”
draw breath,
crowding,
if
forward,
affection,
hands,
breast!
backward drew;
forward.
entreated
me.
thee
thou?”
said I;
be taken?”
done me,
he pleases
passage,
has taken
peace;
grow,
received.
descend.”
thee
longings,
therewithal
its body
Hitherward coming is so much
distressed.”
with me,”
people
satisfied
of any.
attentive
man,
spirits?
slough,
met,
pride,
care;
hill,
whitherward;
Nor was our own departure less in
haste.
plain,
spurs us,
comrade,
course?
mountain?
remorseful;
stain,
thee!
After his feet had laid aside the haste
restrained,
itself.
red,
figure
rays;
obscured.
Comforter
Began to say to me turned wholly
round;
buried
shadow;
has it.
heavens,
heat,
which wills
us.
Persons follows!
birth;
quieted,
grief.
his head,
disturbed.
foot;
There so precipitate we found the rock,
been in vain.
desert,
hill
footsteps staying,
mount?”
ground
direction,
so slowly.
counsel,
not.”
expression
come slowly,
sweet son.”
reach,
masses
and close,
doubt.
peace
slopes,
most knows.”
fold
By ones and twos and threes, and the
others stand
nostrils,
do,
stop,
know not;
broken
side,
rock,
They stopped, and backward drew
themselves somewhat;
them,
the same.
cleft.
from Heaven
wall.”
people:
hand
And one of them began: “Whoe’er thou
art,
well
him closely;
aspect,
divided.
he said,
wound.
Manfredi,
beseech thee
told.
myself
pardon.
arms,
be
Benevento,
wind,
Verde,
quenched.
become.
happy,
Costanza
beside,
here.”
Purgatorio: Canto IV
thinks
seen
it,
entire;
when
accord
ask.”
A greater opening ofttimes hedges up
imbrowns,
which ascended
Noli,
must fly;
say
for me.
rock,
And on each side the border pressed
upon us,
required.
we take?”
way,
us.”
sight,
behold
thyself,”
higher,
hill.
that I
scrambling up,
ascended,
For all men are delighted to look back.
directed,
wondered
by it.
wholly
entered.
Pollux
light,
Thou wouldst behold the zodiac’s jagged
wheel
Bears,
track.
power to think,
stand,
road
drive,
other,
incompetent,
called,
Winter,
hence
Hebrews
rises
rise.”
ever
At the beginning down below ‘tis
tiresome,
it hurts.
pleasant to thee,
be;
expect;
true.”
“Peradventure
round,
rock,
noticed.
persons there
rock,
stand.
fatigued,
embraced,
them bowed.
negligent
were.”
heed,
valiant.”
distress,
quicken,
sun
chariot?”
His sluggish attitude and his curt words
wherefore seated
escort?
thee?”
climbing?
go
gate.
me round
me aid
grace;
heard not?”
mounting,
has touched
Purgatorio: Canto V
departed,
Guide,
not
conduct him.”
words,
astonishment
broken!
dost slacken?
whispered?
wags
springing
weakens.”
come”?
tinged
sometimes worthy.
across
place
body,
hoarse “Oh!”
us,
way
you,
shadow,
them;
Him let them honour, it may profit
them.”
August,
wheeled
a rein.
Poet;
listen.”
steps,
him;
stay?
violence,
us,
forth
hearts.”
you
Aught I have power to do, ye well-born
spirits,
Guide,
sought by me.”
confidence
others,
Charles,
prayers
offences.
From thence was I; but the deep wounds,
through which
Antenori,
secure;
me
willed.
breathe.
ground.”
mountain,
front.”
chance
Campaldino,
known?”
void
thereat
him,
from me;
fashion!’
gathered
grasp it.
evil,
wind
nature gave;
valley
covered
intent,
changed;
came
Whate’er of it earth tolerated not;
torrents,
speed
back.
Arno
the cross
bottom,
me.”
world,
And rested thee from thy long
journeying,”
spirit,
Purgatorio: Canto VI
despondent,
learns;
pluck him,
mind;
hears;
They crowd no more to whom his hand
he stretches,
himself.
face,
therefrom.
arms
death,
drowned.
outstretched
strong.
I saw Count Orso; and the soul divided
committed,
provide
Brabant,
flock!
shades
may pray,
Heaven;
And ne’ertheless these people pray for
this.
be?
him.
proposition,
separate.
be.
top.”
haste,
casts.”
answered,
thinkest.
return
hill,
So that thou dost not interrupt his rays.
stationed
way.”
bear thee,
eyes!
ascent;
And it replied not unto his demand,
began:
recluse,
first it was,
the other.
land,
To make its citizen glad welcome
there;
other
shut in!
the shores
bosom,
saddle?
less.
devout,
thee,
become,
bridle.
savage,
fall
open,
thereof;
suffered,
By greed of those transalpine lands
distrained,
Cappelletti,
man!
oppression
Santafiore!
lamenting,
exclaims,
people;
renown!
thou makest
partisan!
be
forethought take!
slowly,
bow,
it!
submit.”
reason;
of wisdom!
civilized,
fine-spun
spinnest.
remembrance,
members?
light,
woman,
down,
reiterated,
faith;”
reply.
believes
not!”
his brow,
him,
And, where inferiors embrace,
embraced him.
what it could do
from,
thee?
what cloister.”
realm,”
hitherward;
that I come.
I by not doing, not by doing, lost
desirest,
recognized.
torments,
lamentations
sighs.
they
exempt.
saintly
them.
indication
come
beginning.”
assigned us;
sojourn.
withdrawn;
them,
one wish
be
power?”
drew
gone;
give, however,
darkness;
perplexes.
We might indeed therewith return below,
round about,
imprisoned.”
sayest
place,
hollowed out
hollowed.
repair,
lap,
And there for the new day will we
await.”
winding path
away.
pearl-white,
serene,
hollow
vanquished,
odours
unknown.
flowers
valley.
nest,”
thither,
conduct you.
faces
Of all of them will you discriminate,
among them.
bears
neglected,
lips,
power
slain,
revives.
springs,
swaddling-clothes
council seems
breast!
bed;
lewd,
nose,
sitting,
to vase,
realms,
branches
Him.
Eke to the large-nosed reach my words,
no less
sings;
already
them
William,
war
Make Monferrat and Canavese weep.”
desire
heart,
friends farewell,
love,
souls
hand.
It joined and lifted upward both its
palms,
for.”
dulcet notes,
mind.
devoutly,
entire,
wheels.
truth,
For now indeed so subtile is the veil,
gaze,
descend,
swords,
verdant pinions
behind.
station,
And one descended to the opposite
bank,
between them.
head;
bewildered,
come,”
valley
anon.”
road,
myself,
Utterly frozen, to the faithful shoulders.
we
speak to them;
you.”
looking
me.
mine
up.
did move;
Noble Judge Nino! how it me
delighted,
damned!
us;
thou camest
foot?”
places
life,
me,
Currado!
has willed!”
grace
ford,
wide,
white,
again.
Through her full easily is comprehended
love,
Cock.”
impressed
heaven,
stars,
gaze at
three torches
With which this hither pole is all on
fire.”
stars
yonder low,
those were.”
Adversary!”
thither.
perchance
food.
licking
itself.
motion.
wings,
wheeled,
approached
whole assault
Had not a moment loosed its gaze on
me.
high
wax
Of Valdimagra or
great there.
Currado Malaspina
descended;
To mine I bore th
refineth.”
domains
I never passed, bu
dwelling
Throughout all Eu
not known?
house,
tow’rds us,
you wish?”
escort?
not!”
conversant,”
now
Said to us, ‘Thither go; there is the
portal.’”
good,”
ours.”
stair
smooth,
perse,
across.
forth.
seated,
diamond.
will
“Ask
undo.”
would open,
But first upon my breast three times I
smote.
described
within,” he said.
keys.
silver;
yellow,
needs
unloose.
err
door,
warning
behind.”
round
sonorous,
seemed
good
remained.
attentive,
hear
catch,
stand;
Purgatorio: Canto X
the door
disuses,
seem straight,
upon it,
excuse?
rock,
advancing.
“Here it behoves us use a little art,”
side.”
made,
disk
needle’s eye;
piles itself,
plain
deserts.
measure;
flight,
now,
me.
yet,
round about,
interdicted,
Polycletus,
But Nature’s self, had there been put to
shame.
with tidings
a year,
interdict,
saying, “Ave;”
love,
impressed,
“Ecce ancilla Dei,” as distinctly
alone,”
standing
hearts;
beheld
me,
near,
were
ark,
appointed.
they sing.”
frankincense,
and nose
made.
Psalmist,
And more and less than King was he in
this.
him,
afflicted.
standing,
upon me.
beneficence
speaking;
And a poor widow at his bridle stood,
and full
moving.
these
vengeance, Lord,
breaking.”
like one
thou not
Return?” And he: “Who shall be where I
am
deed of others
own?”
behoves me
me.”
language,
sake,
make
people;
curious are,
slow.
shouldst swerve
hearest
paid;
worst
sentence.
persons,
waver.”
earth,
with it;
stones;
stricken.”
O ye proud Christians! wretched, weary
ones!
steps,
worms,
screen?
fails!
thus
Beheld I those, when I had ta’en good
heed.
down,
laden;
looks
more!”
Purgatorio: Canto XI
heavens,
love
omnipotence
By every creature, as befitting is
singing,
theirs.
wilderness
advance.
suffered
Pardon in one another, pardon thou
Adversary,
deliver.
not,
behind us.”
furtherance
a weight
dream,
Unequally in anguish round and round
cornice,
world.
us,
them,
will?
marks
and light
wheels!
disburden
the way
passes,
falls;
burden
invested,
climbing.”
to those
spoken,
with us
subjugate,
down,
himself,
him
Tuscan;
father;
I know not if his name were ever with
you.
mother,
and kin
dead.”
countenance;
And one of them, not this one who was
speaking,
cramps him,
called out,
art
the leaves
Bolognese;
part.
In sooth I had not been so courteous
bent.
not
God.
lingers,
grossness!
the cry,
perchance
them both.
breath
now that,
side.
peel off
been dead
‘dindi,’
shorter
Space to the eterne, than twinkling of
an eye
slowest.
Siena,
overthrown
discolours it
earth.”
And I: “Thy true speech fills my heart
with good
assuagest;
spakest?”
Salvani,
presumed
back
daring.”
passed,
largess?”
said he,
himself;
duress
he suffered,
vein.
darkly;
Yet little time shall pass before thy
neighbours
confines.”
permitted;
onward pass,
oars,
barque;”
thoughts
abashed.
both
were,
eyes;
way,
earth
were before;
Whence often there we weep for them
afresh,
alone
covered
projects.
from heaven
side.
Mars,
father,
giants.
Nimrod,
Sennaar.
slain!
sword
Gilboa,
That felt thereafter neither rain nor
dew!
shreds
consternation
pursues!
pavement
Alcmaeon
there;
Cyrus said,
slaughter.
discerned!
which there
seemed alive;
went.
uplifted,
your faces
encompassed,
sun,
imagined,
handmaiden.
adorn,
upward;
again.”
star.
wings;
the steps,
come!
wings,
it
Rubaconte,
broken
the age
stave,
falls
Sheer downward from the second
circle there;
graze.
persons,
it not.
here
laments.
stairs,
before.
thing
hardly
walking?”
remained
will,
fatigue,
going
With something on the head to them
unknown,
doubt,
helpful,
office
sight;
spread
carved
smiled.
shriveth all.
first,
curved.
appears;
seems smooth,
have.”
motion,
about.
enter
us,”
led.
over it;
be!”
advanced
In little time, by dint of ready will;
albeit
flight,
loud,
crying,
are they?”
scourges
scourge.
Pardon.
steadfast,
sitting,
seated.”
opened;
with mantles
Not from the colour of the stone
diverse.
onward,
Saints!”
pierced
them
grief.
seemed to me,
shoulder,
sustained.
Thus do the blind, in want of livelihood,
alms,
implores.
spake,
itself;
transpierces,
wild
To me it seemed, in passing, to do
outrage,
Seeing the others without being seen;
sage.
to say,
demand,
the point.”
may fall,
horrible seam
their cheeks.
care,
mind,
gracious,
learn it.”
man.
name.”
life,
fortune.
deceive thee,
descending,
adversaries,
willed.
bitter
beholding,
others;
not,’
sunshine.
me
unbound
discourse?”
offence
envy.
suspended
weighs on me.”
among us
thinkest?”
not;
move
thee.”
loves thee;
desirest,
fame.
vain
there
Diana;
lose.”
mountain,
flight,
alone;
him,
accost him.”
each other,
hand;
me.
still
going,
been.”
wanders
suffice it;
vain,
noise.”
me
concealed
of this
truly
perish;
pregnant
Peloro
surpasses)
up,
with them,
misfortune
impels them;
their nature
pasture.
downward,
demands,
And turns from them disdainfully its
muzzle.
wolves,
ditch.
gulf,
them.
me;
mind him
all.
beeves;
deprives.
forest;
from now
wooded.”
disturbed,
From whate’er side the peril seize upon
him;
and sad,
other
names,
made thereof,
me
bring me
me;
forth
Such grace of his, I’ll not be chary with
thee;
reap!
heart
honour
since
diversion;
diminish.
Manardi,
Carpigna,
Prata,
us,
Anastagi,
ease
courtesy,
malicious grown!
worse,
Devil
pure
me
speak,
distressed.”
silent,
confident.
onward,
appeared
exclaiming:
following fast:
Poet,
I backward, and not forward, took a
step.
curb
bounds;
around you,
beauties,
ground;
you.”
Purgatorio: Canto XV
hour
And dawn of day appeareth of that
sphere
playing,
night,
midnight here;
faces,
encircled,
were going
overpowered
first,
And stupor were to me the things
unknown,
visor
side,
measure
smitten;
flee.
cannot
moving?”
me;
upward.
things
thee
feel.”
benedight,
in
others.”
We mounting were, already thence
departed,
o’ercomest!”
going,
his;
failing
wonder not
If he reprove us, that we less may rue
it.
lessened,
sighs.
aspiration,
your breast;
‘Our,’
possesses,
burns.”
gather.
make
possessed?”
light.
love,
fully
longing.
extinct,
wounds
painful.”
appease me,”
silence.
us?
she ceased,
disappeared.
whenever
the gods,
Pisistratus;”
mild
us ill,
If he who loves us be by us
condemned?”
clamorously
kill him!”
death
heaven,
strife,
persecutors,
compassion.
myself
sleep,
league
entangled,
subdues?”
me,
away.”
masks
shut
not fail
peace,
Which from the eternal fountain are
diffused.
not
sluggards, slow
returns.”
peering
stretch
lucent;
therefrom.
us.
cloud,
enveloped us,
sagacious,
Drew near to me and offered me his
shoulder.
guide,
against
kill him,
only,
separated.”
sins.
one,
hear?”
truly,
unloosing.”
our smoke
though
time?”
spoken;
reply,
upward.”
And I: “O creature
thyself
To return beautifu
thee,
me.”
me,”
He answered; “an
our seeing,
thereof.”
Thereon began I: “
tempts me,”
to me,
knowest.
By other surname do I know him not,
farther.
rays out,
hear me.
membrane mole,
condensed
setting.
Master
cloud
shores.
perceives not,
trumpets,
takes form,
guides it.
singing,
withdrawn
came
it.
dying.
Around him were the great Ahasuerus,
maiden
queen,
naught?
mourns,
closed,
face,
be,
passage up;”
removed me,
speaking,
sight,
here.
conceals.
himself;
asking,
dark;
return.”
stairway;
And I, as soon as the first step I
reached,
wings,
“‘Beati
pursues,
appeared.
so?”
motionless,
arrives;
said:
delinquency
are?
thy speech.”
restored;
gather
it.
pleasure;
care
creation.
must be
The seed within yourselves of every
virtue,
welfare
sight,
secure;
divided,
neighbour,
clay.
neighbour,
Hope to excel, and therefore only long
down;
and renown
rises,
love;
to chafe,
revenge,
another’s harm.
below;
faulty.
Each one confusedly a good conceives
for it;
strives.
you,
man happy;
root.
this
looking
on,
“Perchance
annoys him.”
comprehended
speak.
describes.
dear,
To teach me love, to which thou dost
refer
eyes
leaders.
action.
displays it
incline,
born,
rests
hidden
aver
appear
impression
me;
with doubt;
merit.”
leaves.
allurements,
gathered,
counsels,
assent.
taken
winnows.
world.
kindled,
restrain it.
thou
it.”
rare,
those paths
down;
named
plain
received,
us.
throng,
If but the Thebans were in need of
Bacchus,
us,
are ridden.
running
multitude,
lamenting,
Ilerda,
Spain.”
be lost
grace!”
lukewarmness,
us;
is.”
my Guide;
“Come on
find;
us,
discourse;
monastery,
power,
born,
not,
us;
succour
them
teeth.”
opened,
offered.”
be seen,
find,
moon,
Saturn,
dim,
stammering woman,
distorted,
hue.
I looked at her; and as the sun restores
benumbs,
thereafter
unloosed,
from her.
him.”
before
confusion.
near
one.
open,
showed me;
and come;
mayst enter.”
Mountain,
went.
bore
thought,
bridge,
passage is,”
region.
appeared,
us,
granite.
fanned us,
blessed,
comfort filled.
gazest?”
mounted.
And I: “With such misgiving makes me
go
withdraw me.”
enchantress,
lamented?
from her?
heels,
whirls
vast.”
forward,
him thither,
cleaves
mounts,
begin.
forth,
weeping,
downward turned.
understood.
severe,
prostration,
speedily,
outside.”
answered
whence I
concealed,
And unto my Lord’s eyes mine eyes I
turned;
sign
implored.
take note,
ripens
turn,
turned upwards,
procure thee
heaven
beforehand
feather.
conversion;
made,
Then I discovered life to be a lie.
ascend;
in me.
parted
avaricious;
for it.
converted,
has.
earth.
affection
lost,
hands;
prostrate.”
speak;
remorse.”
thee, brother,”
am I
power.
heard,
speak.
linger,
said.
Alagia,
house
Purgatorio: Canto XX
pleasure
water.
Leader,
rock,
As on a wall close to the battlements;
drop by drop
pervades,
approach.
prey,
appear
changed,
shall depart?
and scarce,
And I attentive to the shades I heard
them;
Mary!”
birth;
wast
down.”
Fabricius,
vice.”
So pleasurable were these words to me
knowledge
seemed to come.
largess
honour.
why only
deserved?
word,
comfort
I may expect from earth, but that so
much
dead.
world,
from it;
Bruges
taken on it;
Philips,
perished all,
power
abounding,
from whom
shame,
harm.
Gascony.
amends.
from France,
his.
lance
thrusts
Florence burst.
He thence not land, but sin and infamy,
himself
accounts.
ship,
her
slaves.
us,
drawn,
past,
slain.
decretal
concealed,
secrecy?
occasioned thee
commentary,
comes on,
laugh.
records,
wrath
here.
had,
encircles
us,
gold?’
low,
spurs us
of,
road
power,
falling,
seized on me,
going.
heaven.
towards me,
Saying, “Fear not, while I am guiding
thee.”
comprehended,
that song,
finished.
ground,
plaint.
perceive;
thoughtful.
grace
Leader
vengeance;
writeth
That Christ appeared to two upon the
way
behind us,
peace!”
rendered
conforming.
council,
peace,
with speed,
on high,
you?”
marks
Angel traces
must reign.
night
off,
compacts,
own,
In coming upwards could not come
alone,
fashion.
throat
guide him
lead.
shudder
together
feet?”
custom.
receiveth
beside;
snow,
falls
steps.
rarefied,
spake of,
or more,
hidden
trembled.
moves
it.
convent,
fly.
not,
will
now felt
praise
upwards.”
So said he to him; and since we enjoy
great,
good.
set free,
ye rejoice.
may know;
here
words.”
aid
wounds
Whence issued forth the blood by Judas
sold,
honours,
as yet.
with myrtle.
Achilles;
burden.
sparks
me,
Whereby more than a thousand have
been fired;
song;
weight.
time
ban.”
turn
“Be silent!”
all things;
For tears and laughter are such
pursuivants
springs forth,
follow.
wink;
gazed
dwells;
labour
now
afraid
him
solicitude.”
marvellest,
upon thee.
of mine,
learn
imputedst,
concerning him.”
“Brother,
beholdest.”
sum
comprehend,
turned us,
face;
And those who have in justice their
desire
it.
passes,
labour
spirits;
descended
rein,
with me;
wisdom
diligence?”
answered:
to me.
doubts,
hidden!
Thy question shows me thy belief to be
removed
punished.
uplifted,
exclaimest,
hunger
joustings.
too wide
me
again
sin
rebuts
weapons
preludes,
faithful
works suffice.
didst trim
thereafter?”
drink,
enlighten.
night,
itself,
time,
heaven.’
Christian;
disseminated
laments;
remained,
customs
Christian,
For a long time professing paganism;
fourth circle
centuries.
covering
speak of,
spare,
Terentius,
knowest;
alley.”
many,”
Replied my Leader, “with that Grecian
are
suckled,
discourse
laurel decked.
seen,
Thetis,
about,
released;
fifth
horn,
do.”
ensign;
And we resumed our way with less
suspicion
speech,
song.
interrupted
found,
smell.
did that;
it.
On that side where our pathway was
enclosed
leaves.
scarcity.”
of making
honourable,
responds;
women
won.
The primal age was beautiful as gold;
magnified
mine eyes
I riveted, as he is wont to do
birds,
ordained us
out.”
I turned my face and no less soon my
steps
forth.
go
debt.”
do,
o’ertaking,
not stop,
motion
Coming and passing onward, gazed
upon us
cavernous,
itself.
up
son.”
‘m.’
apple,
so,
how?
them,
looked keenly;
this?”
within it.
discolour,
those
an escort;
grief,”
changed!
denudes you?
marvelling,
longings.”
the verdure;
And not a single time alone, this ground
solace,
tree
‘Eli,’
worlds,
rolled round.
thee
surprised
Of that good sorrow which to God
reweds us,
already?
underneath,
make.”
these torments,
My Nella with he
her sighs
God
My little widow,
loved,
As in good works
alone;
beginning,
love?’”
measure
go.”
held
Short of the sweet new style that now I
hear.
dictates,
to pass;
another;”
Nile,
themselves,
there,
Turning their faces, hurried on their
steps,
light.
trotting,
walks,
saying,
thee?”
know not;
live
depleted,
of it
repentance.
uplifted
to thee
declare.
precious
thee.”
encounter,
us;
two,
world.
pursuivants
boughs
thitherward.
People I saw beneath it lift their hands,
leaves,
answer,
not.
refuses.
near;
raised.”
rises.
ones
inebriate
breasts;
in drinking,
for companions
descended.”
borders,
On passed we, hearing sins of gluttony,
went,
alone?”
started
be,
you
peace.”
Teachers,
guides him.
out fragrance,
flowers,
plumes
ambrosia;
whom grace
So much illumines, that the love of taste
desire,
brooked,
not,
appear,
gap,
other,
Which by its narrowness divides the
climbers.
venture
droop,
asking
coming
speak.
be,
fly
drawn.”
With confidence I opened then my
mouth,
grow
applies not?”
Meleager
sour;
tremulous motion
image;
seem to thee.
wounds.”
vengeance,”
art,
thee.”
mine
receive,
sayest.
up
removest,
members
better
thence
mingles,
active
consistent.
already,)
and feels
is.
itself
members.
But how from animal it man becomes
once err
intellect,
coming,
foetus
pleased
attract
soul,
revolves.
word,
wine,
distils.
will
In action far more vigorous than before.
other;
it,
about,
members.
adorned,
itself
it
Virtually the soul that has stood still.
shifts,
semblance,
organizes
sight.
we laugh;
sighs,
heard.
shaped,
wonderest at.”
turned,
flames of fire,
blast
sequesters.
side,
ought
bosom
heard,
round;
flame;
and theirs
time.
cognosco;”
voices low.
wood
poison.”
wives
were chaste.
imposes.
suffices,
food,
closed up.
other
Master
warn thee.”
sun,
west
white.
flame
Appear more red; and even to such a
sign
heed.
beginning
began they
body!”
come,
regard
be burned.
slower
straight
not bent
road
these,
at them.
another
Without a pause, content with brief
salute.
battalions
fortune.
onward,
other;
Gomorrah!”
mountains
Might fly in part, and part towards the
sands,
avoidant,
songs,
before,
possession,
with me
articulations.
I bring.
spreads,
it,
backs?”
dumb,
goes,
appearance;
disburdened,
questioned us,
offended
triumphing,
‘Sodom!’
hast heard,
shame.
hermaphrodite;
law,
her
wood.
who we are,
it.
granted;
me,
height,
father
rhymes of love;
thoughtfully
For a long time I went, beholding him,
nearer.
such
dim.
sworn,
displayest
me?”
fashion,
ink!”
out,”
smith.
their faces,
heard.
persons.
college,
ours.”
behind,
fire
desire
ready.
cobrire;
them.
you.
before me.
power
rays,
blood,
noon,)
departing,
to us.
verge,
corde,”
sanctified,
said;
heard him,
me,
burned.
death.
full
hair.
deceive thee,
garment’s hem.
conscience!
stubborn,
wall.”
her,
vermilion,
name
welling.
Whereat he wagged his head, and said:
“How now?
as one
apple.
entered,
there!
already!”
singing,
Directed us, and we, attent alone
began.
was there
look.
cometh;
steps,
dark.”
path ascended
low.
And of few stairs we yet had made
assay,
setting
Sages.
held,
from us
delight.
venturesome
Upon the mountaintops ere they were
fed,
hot,
his staff
doors,
it,
us,
they,
without;
But through that little I beheld the stars
wont.
oftentimes
East
burning;
methought
saying:
demand
garland.
me,
long.
she,
splendours
rise,
lodge,
many branches
hungerings.”
there guerdons
with these.
me
thereafter
growing.
When underneath us was the stairway all
step,
eternal,
come
thee;
henceforth;
art thou.
forehead;
shrubs
Which of itself alone this land
produces.
unto thee,
me;
mitre!”
day,
fragrance.
me
that side
Mountain;
swayed,
theirs;
prime,
rhymes,
gathering on
Chiassi,
it.
off,
little waves
sprang.
some mixture
conceal,
brown current
passed
appears
thought)
floweret,
looks,
be,
singing.
what
Spring.”
pressed
dancing,
flowerets
wise
casts down;
sound
are.
river,
boon.
custom!
seed.
across,
Abydos,
then.
smile,”
intellect.
entreat me,
came ready
needful.”
sound,
this.”
cause
upon thee.
delighting,
place
here;
sweet play.
made
heat,)
Might not upon mankind wage any war,
heaven so high,
locked.
motion
side,
dense;
possesses
worthy
bears
earth,
from vein
condenses,
breath;
certain,
regains
restores it.
be
less dear
thee.
in song
Parnassus.
Here was the human race in innocence;
fruit;
speaks.”
round
smile
words;
eyes.
continued:
alone
Among the sylvan shadows, sedulous
onward, going
attending.
hundred,
listen!”
forest,
lightning.
But since the lightning ceases as it
comes,
and more,
this?”
zeal
obedient were,
veil;
stayed,
delights
Ineffable, and for a longer time.
walked
boughs,
was heard.
claim!
me,
me,
To put in verse things difficult to think.
intervening
counterfeit;
them
deceives,
reason
candlesticks,
“Hosanna!”
filled,
wonderment.
things,
so sedately,
only
leaders,
white,
earth.
resplendent,
depicted,
semblance,
colours
Whence the sun’s bow is made, and
Delia’s girdle.
were
me,
two,
thou
blessed
grasses
In front of me upon the other margin
star,
animals,
them,
Argus
these.
waste
me so,
pages,
their plumage
him.
contained
along;
three,
So that he injured none by cleaving it.
sight;
bird,
mingled.
car
burnt up
circle
noted.
The second was as if her flesh and bones
fallen.
white,
her
swift.
measure
head.
grave.
One showed himself as one of the
disciples
nature
dear;
caused
acute.
seven
wore,
vermilion;
sworn
brows.
august
interdicted,
still.
heaven
rising,
Nor veil of other cloud than that of sin,
aware
port)
Griffin,
their peace.
commissioned,
after.
his cavern,
eternal.
venis,”
round about,
rose,
adorned;
overshadowed
So that by tempering influence of
vapours
ascended,
out,
cinct
presence
abashed,
proceeded
felt.
power
through
forth,
reliance
mother,
afflicted,
tremble;
I know the traces of the ancient flame.”
fathers,
me:
dew,
darkened.
awhile;
weep.”
prow
working
name,
Which of necessity is here recorded,
descended,
speaks,
reserve:
Mountain?
here?”
Mine eyes fell downward into the clear
fountain,
grass,
forehead down.
bitter
compassion.
rafters
winds,
itself
Whene’er the land that loses shadow
breathes,
taper;
ever
said,
upbraid him?”
congealed,
anguish
from my breast.
She, on the right-hand border of the car
beings
afterwards:
from you
care,
yonder,
measure.
wheels,
conjunction,
rain
not,
life
him;
savage
seed,
possesses.
look;
way.
life,
Himself from me
others.
increased,
delightful;
By means of whic
otherwise
them.
flowers;
monster,
green,
self
was here.
penitence,
turned me
foe.
Such self-conviction stung me at the
heart
became
cause.
outward sense,
hold me.”
drawn me,
moving
it.
arms,
underneath,
water.
brought
me.
are stars;
pleasant
thine
profoundly look.’
with them,
towards us.
they said;
stationed thee,
his weapons.”
flame,
Fastened mine eyes upon those eyes
relucent,
stayed.
shining,
nature.
marvelled,
still,
jubilant,
while
one,
steps.
conceal.”
Parnassus
cistern,
encumbered
appear,
Where the harmonious heaven
o’ershadowed thee,
eyes
goddesses,
intently!”
while;
But to the less when sight re-shaped
itself,
withdrawn,
their faces.
wheels,
front,
wholly passed us
themselves,
benedight,
But so that not a feather of him
fluttered.
ford
wheel
arc.
vacant
trusted,
time.
flights
o’erpassed,
descended.
I heard them murmur altogether,
“Adam!”
despoiled
bough.
dilate
Indians
height.
not
sweet to taste,
evil.”
creature:
just.”
dragged,
bough,
downward
mingled
themselves,
Sun
desolate.
sang,
hearing,
cost so dear,
asleep;
drowsihood.
Therefore I pass to what time I awoke,
veil
dost thou?”
fruit,
Heaven,
were,
been broken,
loss
changed;
So I revived, and saw that piteous one
conductress
Beatrice?”
underneath
ascending
profound.”
know not,
shut me.
Alone she sat upon the very earth,
fasten.
themselves
their hands
Auster.
forester,
Roman.
liveth ill,
seest,
Having returned to earth, take heed thou
write.”
willed.
raining
remote,
the bark,
new,
smote,
wholesome food.
bear.
his plumes.
mourns,
it said:
freighted!”
Methought, then, that the earth did yawn
between
Dragon,
his tail,
sting,
rejoicing.
with grass
offered
reclothed
The pole and both the wheels so
speedily,
it,
corner.
four
forehead;
seen!
glancing round,
other.
feet.
wrath,
forest
beast.
psalmody
The maidens in the midst of tears
began;
sighing,
countenance,
the cross.
given
response:
placed;
moved
stayed.
So she moved onward; and I do not think
ground,
smote,
quickly,”
thee,
placed.”
thou not
with me?”
teeth,
It me befell, that without perfect sound
good.”
thyself,
dreams.
broke
guilty
fear a sop.
car,
prey;
For verily I see, and hence narrate it,
bar,
Five,
thievish woman
her.
persuade thee,
intellect;
who live
them,
plant,
here.
soul
pleasure,
sin,
daze thee,
reason
sight
aye
lose it?”
“the school
divine
Distant as far as separated is
hastens on.”
remember
reproves me.”
now
Lethe;
inferred,
intent.
Truly from this time forward shall my
words
steps
circle,
escort,
edge,
fountain,
another.
itself
withdraws?”
“Pray
answered,
from blame,
The beautiful lady: “This and other
things
from him.”
away,
obscure.
accustomed,
him.”
will
As soon as by a sign it is disclosed,
Statius
with him.”
satiate me;
stars.
everything
receives
repeat
descends;
song.
both
draw
his.
me
manifest,
tree,
leaves
me worthy.
forth
respond!
one
crosses,
wax
fashion.
there
part,
side
sun;
return,
infused
our wont.
fire;
power
adorned.
made him
suffice
reserves.
If I was merely what of me thou newly
heaven,
thy light!
make eternal
measure,
enkindled
river
abroad.
light
Kindled in me a longing for their cause,
myself,
ask,
dull
shaken it off.
believest;
site,
returnest.”
If of my former doubt I was divested
than spoken,
amazed
light.”
look
be
is form,
footprints
mentioned.
diverse
one
moon;
power
love.
quiet,
greatest haste.
mark.
art,
deviate
possesses,
other way,
(In the same wise as one may see the fire
delight.
judge,
the lowland.
below,
quiet.”
face.
Paradiso: Canto II
shores;
lost.
Apollo,
Bears.
which
it,
before you
passed
be,
made!
behold.
a bolt
itself,
thing
concealed,
brought us.”
bright
striking.
body,)
us
That essence to behold, wherein is seen
united.
faith,
believes.
world.
Cain?”
opinion
unlock,
pierce thee
senses,
wings.
thyself.”
diverse,
dense.”
immersed
it.
Lights many the eighth sphere displays to
you
alone,
fruits
one,
destroyed.
and through
matter,
leaves.
through
interfused.
other,
through,
which
passing,
And thence the foreign radiance is
reflected,
glass,
lead.
itself
parts,
thee
remove
thine eyes.
thy back
mirrors
reflected.
see
rays
thee.
eyes,
contained.
differences,
within them
effects.
proceed,
grade;
Since from above they take, and act
beneath.
place I come
hereafter
the ford
spheres,
proceed.
make fair,
turns it,
accommodated
quickens,
derived,
shines,
pupil.
to light
rare:
produces,
bosom warmed,
discovered,
aspect.
convinced
withdrew me
lost,
faces
white
and fountain.
semblances,
turned,
“because
foot,
beholdest,
vow.
believe;
them,
feet.”
bewilders:
comprehended,
me
destiny.”
laughing eyes:
herself.
me from thee,
blessed,
sphere.
low,
vows
void.”
divine,
conceptions.
remembrance;
so,
happy,
more friends?”
a little;
gladness,
She seemed to burn in the first fire of
love:
for more.
secludes us;
these circles,
one;
‘tis pleasing,
As to the King, who makes his will our
will.
whatsoever
makes.”
grace
measure.
sates,
longing,
thanks,
word,
To learn from her what was the web
wherein
rule
themselves,
sleep
accepts
pleasure.
world
sect.
Then men accustomed unto evil more
tore me;
became.
reveals
head
wimple.
returned
usage,
divested.
Of great Costanza this is the effulgence,
puissance.”
something heavy.
time
desire,
mine eyes,
made me.
Paradiso: Canto IV
hunger
both alike;
does.
blame not,
doubts,
painted
that
More fervent far than by articulate
speech.
wrath
thee
breathe.
merit?
first
gall.
God,
John
Mary,
appeared to thee,
degrees,
because allotted
give sign
apprehendeth
condescends
something else;
again.
That which Timaeus argues of the soul
seen,
thinks.
thence
may be
return
blame,
truth.
This principle ill understood once
warped
astray
me.
able
force,
excused;
For will is never quenched unless it
will,
seconds
having power
held,
hand,
road
gathered them
refuted
many times.
thyself
wouldst be weary.
have heard
reluctance
do,
father
slew)
they cause
expression,
truth.”
Such was the flowing of the holy river
inundates me
revives me,
grace;
respond.
itself.
It rests therein, as wild beast in his lair,
be.
shoot,
nature,
impels us.
me
deeds, so
light.”
back
downcast.
Paradiso: Canto V
seen,
vanquish,
proceeds
apprehends
feet.
seduce,
through.
service
made
claim.”
speech,
goodness
doth prize
endowed.
reasonest,
consents:
compact,
compensation?
thou’st offered,
With gains ill gotten thou wouldst do
good deed.
dispenses,
taken
knowledge,
In the essence of th
Convene together
agreement.
This last for everm
Unless complied
this
spoken.
Therefore it was en
Hebrews
hast,
it became
himself
away
The tempering influence of the vapours
dense,
answered me
Paradiso: Canto VI
had followed
God
first;
to hand,
And, changing thus, upon mine own
alighted.
redundant;
contented.
his.
assertion
feet,
high task
it,
hand so joined
sequel,
reason
sacrosanct,
it.
sovereignty.
last
again.
Sabine wrong
kings
neighboring nations;
by the Romans
Pyrrhus,
Against the other princes and
confederates.
from locks
Arabians,
across
glidest;
young
seemed;
serene,
assume it.
Rhine,
Seine,
filled;
Ravenna,
flight
follow it.
legions; then
Towards Durazzo, and Pharsalia smote
started,
lies,
Juba;
West,
standard-bearer
together,
before it,
death.
shore;
great peace,
speak
achieve
beneath it,
me
of,
wrath.
bitten
wings
her.
those
crimes,
Which are the cause of all your
miseries.
lilies
most.
handicraft
ever
down,
talons
fell.
believe
been,
them;
thither,
upward.
greater.
spheres;
rewarded.
wrought,
goes he
of others.
queen,
him
man,
ten.
years,
he had,
him more.”
light
moved,
And in the manner of swift-hurrying
sparks
sudden distance.
tell her,”
Lady,”
effluences;
over
drowses.
smile
Such as would make one happy in the
fire:
justly
thinking,
mine
thee.
was born,
progeny;
God
Maker
person
stung,
suffered,
contracted.
diverse;
pleasing;
was opened.
vengeance
from which
mode.’
nature
will I say.
spurn
removed
down
Is wholly free, because it is not subject
pleases;
things
vivacious.
been
wanting,
him,
Supreme,
blanched,
And to his dignity no more returns,
empties
delights.
fords:
himself
power
ways
presents
issues,
world,
proceeding
pardoned;
insufficient
incarnate.
do.
mixtures
endure;
created;’
Therefore if that which I have said
were true,
corruption.
sincere
called
named,
are made,
go.
her.
furthermore
time
made.”
take,
in front.
grow.
discerned,
and goes,
vision.
winds,
seem
gyration
appeared
Princes,
thirst,
say,
moving;’
offered
them,
great promise
thou?” was
affection.
possessed me
more,
have been.
thee,
Which rayeth round about me, and doth
hide me
silk.
good reason;
shown thee
love.
itself
Sorgue,
towned
disgorge.
crown
waters
receive,)
nascent sulphur,
still,
molest him;
bark
placed.
chest.”
end
it.
to me,
to doubt,
forth.”
askest
thy back.
ascending
providence
preservation.
forth
foreseen,
dost walk
produce,
ruins.
maimed,
And maimed the First that has not made
them perfect.
thee?”
needful.”
worse
citizens?”
reason.”
not
behoves
Xerxes,
lose.
art,
another;
comes
From sire so vile that he is given to
Mars.
progenitors,
triumphant.
before thee;
pleased,
mind
good.
sword,
sermons;
the road.”
Paradiso: Canto IX
Charles
undergo;
round;”
again,
sufficeth.
impious,
hearts,
splendours
pleasure me
wish,
me proof
me,
singing,
continued:
Piava,
assault.
o’ercame me.
me;
your vulgar.
me,
away
be.
marsh
Will change the water that Vicenza
bathes,
duty;
head,
making.
monstrous be
Malta.
blood,
by ounce,
Of which this courteous priest shall
make a gift
gifts
call them,
Judicant,
us.”
semblance
wheel
sight,
As a fine ruby smitten by the sun.
above,
shade
spirit,
hidden;
heavens
fires
themselves a cowl,
questioning
water
began,
engarlands,
sun
horizon.
journey short
Doth from the Tuscan part the Genoese.
nearly
harbour hot.
this heaven
burned,
to mind,
But at the power which ordered and
foresaw.
discover
below.
are born,
this light
scintillating,
rest
Rahab, and being to our order joined,
sealed.
shadowy cone
souls
up.
heaven,
the other,
deed
back,
flower
led astray
wolf.
Doctors
margins.
unfolded;
But Vatican and the other parts elect
Paradiso: Canto X
forth,
revolves
none
Him.
strikes,
loves it
therefrom.
branching off
planets,
them;
inflected,
vain,
dead.
If from the straight line distant more or
less
wanting be
order.
bench,
foretasted,
weary.
thyself,
the scribe.
for us,
mind
revolving,
himself;
come;
expressed,
been!
entered,
Apparent not by colour but by light,
practice,
see it.
go.
how begets.
thanks
grace!”
Never was heart of mortal so disposed
Him,
at it
eyes
divided.
circle,
aspect.
the air,
her zone.
return,
precious
realm;
lights.
thither,
await!
suns
three times,
Like unto stars neighbouring the
steadfast poles,
released,
melody.
“When
kindled
by loving,
stair,
descends,
plants is enflowered
for heaven.
not.
Albertus
certain,
sight
Upward along the blessed garland
turning.
smile
courts
choir
widow,
fairest,
the world
knowledge
So deep was put, that, if the true be
true,
second.
within
furnished.
praise,
waitest.
world
lying
martyrdom
peace.
breath
man.
slow.
love her,
urges,
note,
disposed,
round,
modulation
comprehended,
Paradiso: Canto XI
downward flight!
priesthood,
involved
ease;
emancipate,
received!
point
first
became:
apprehend.
resift
plain,
one fattens,’
second;’
well.
world
vision
bottom,
go
cry,
blood,
her guide.
spoken
taken,
were.
Ubald,
yoke.
breaketh most
the Ganges;
place,
feel.
incurred
death,
The gate of pleasure no one doth
unlock;
loved her.
obscure,
and more,
Amyclas
voice
undaunted,
So that, when Mary still remained
below,
cross.
lovers
diffuse.
semblances,
regard,
thoughts;
peace
too slow.
Sylvester
the bride!
master,
cord;
his brow
scorned;
Order.
Spirit
Archimandrite.
martyrdom,
preached
him,
Arno
seal,
Which during two whole years his
members bore.
good,
reward
faithfully;
realm,
fit
bearings.
And this man was our Patriarch; hence
whoever
see
merchandise.
grown
diverse;
fold.
few,
hoods.
Now if my utterance be not indistinct,
chipped away,
not.’”
round,
song;
Muses,
Our Sirens, in those dulcet clarions,
reflected.
cloud
colour,
command,
the vapours,)
covenant
world
flood,
answered.
rejoicings,
forth
tender,
stopped,
moves them,
themselves,)
star
fair
leader,
mine.
other,
warfare,
shine.
standard
numbers few,
worthy;
brought succour
at whose word
drawn.
wind
wherewith
waves,
every man,
sovereign.
consecrate,
prophetic.
each other,
assent,
Saw in a dream the admirable fruit
his heirs;
was,
name him
was.
of
Christ
Christ,
ground,
came.’
now
manna,
teacher,
dresser;
benignant
itself,
degenerates,)
world
surround thee.
together,
greatest.
runnels,
watered,
stand.
defended
The excellence of
Thomas so courte
coming.
Of its circumferen
wonder,
enclosed.
thee,
discourse
not,
idea
being;
intrined,
rays
such
produces
without.
tempers it,
through;
tree
fruit,
diverse.
virtue,
appear;
trembles.
made;
persons.
peer?’
words.
appears not,
moved him
‘Ask.’
I’ve not so spoken that thou canst not see
wisdom,
are
said,
seeing
strikes.
eyes,
said,
slowly
denies,
shore,
went,)
skill;
And in the world proofs manifest thereof
whither;
fools
the Scriptures
faces.
count
entire,
make,
may.”
within.
Thomas,
born
begin:
“This man has need (and does not tell
you so,
thought)
with you
drawn
sometimes
quicken;
song.
there
liveth,
and One,
circumscribing,
one
Mary,
Answer: “As long as the festivity
vesture.
ardour,
worth.
complete;
us
kindled,
proceeds.
it
now
flesh,
up;
body
To everything which hath the power to
please us.”
Amen,
dead bodies;
mothers,
dear
brightness
circle
became
not!
sights
leave her.
resumed
translated
uplifted
By the enkindled smiling of the star,
wont.
holocaust
beseemed;
exhausted
auspicious;
rays,
them!”
lights
Glimmers between the two poles of the
world
doubt,
sign
genius;
Christ,
Christ
scintillating
other;
sight,
listed
own defence
contrive.
make
appeared
hymn.
conquer!”
comprehends not.
sweet bonds.
bold,
seals
ascending,
those,
truly:
pure.
Paradiso: Canto XV
and relax.
desire
silent?
lament,
last
air
sudden fire,
before,
kindled
little;
ribbon,
forward,
heed;
sight,
sight,
descended
me
One,
been!”
grateful,
dark,
light
her
clothed thee.
pass
unit,
six;
and great
watch
me thirst
fulfilled,
glad
proclaim,
already.”
sign,
increase;
became;
burned
are,
are.
welcome.
name.”
“O leaf of mine, in whom I pleasure took
root!”
me.
is named
more
cornice,
was;
fatigue
girdle
person did.
fear
measure.
done;
the mirror
face;
Vecchio,
buff
dames.
certain
yet
deserted.
watch,
mothers;
distaff,
held
invoked,
derived.
I followed afterward the Emperor
Conrad,
deeds.
Pastor’s fault.
world,
peace.”
thee
Down here where our affection
languishes,
me;
perverted,
shortens,
shears!
tolerate,
made;
apart,
Smiling, appeared like unto her who
coughed
burst.
years
themselves?
John,
were
blandishments.
not in
saint,
burden,
more,
city
game.
Suffice it of my elders to hear this;
thither came,
speech.
between
arms,
living;
neighbours
Galluzzo
stench
already.
world
Caesar,
and discount,
Simifonte
about as beggars.
Buondelmonti.
cities,
down
five.
are passing
away,
Will seem to thee no novel thing nor
hard,
some
short;
pause,
Florence.
marvellous thing
were,
bark,
descended
name
taken.
house.
born
Arrigucci.
of Gold
deeds!
church,
follows
their kin.
burghers.
name!
escutcheon
name
received;
himself
To-day the man who binds it with a
border.
be
unfed.
lamentation,
you brought
companions.
promptings!
city.
should provide
them,
weep;
reversed,
children,
perceived
its place.
forth
made
thee
drink.”
“O my beloved tree, (that so dost lift
thee,
eyes
present,)
heal,
world,
myself
In sooth foursquare against the blows
of chance.
content
me,
more slowly.”
even
confessed.
folk
was slain
away,
mirrored,
descends.
ear
in sight
thee.
cruel,
depart.
Already this is willed, and this is sought
for;
thinks it,
and sold.
party
dispense it.
shoots forth.
salt
road
thy shoulders
fall;
after
forehead scarlet.
for thee
inn
courtesy,
Who on the Ladder bears the holy bird,
thee
asking,
last.
birth
impressed,
years yet
revolved.
Henry,
Some sparkles of his virtue shall
appear
transformed,
bear
said he
present.
commentaries
On what was said to thee; behold the
snares
revolutions;
shouldst envy,
perfidies.”
soul
warped,
person
loves:
on
The time towards me such a blow to
deal me
way.
me,
me,
bitterness,
beauteous summit
to light,
again,
Will be a savour of strong herbs to
many.
olden.”
treasure
at first
mirror;
overcast
shame,
word;
itch;
digested.
wind,
summits,
honour.
wheels,
valley,
known;
example
hidden,
sweet,
me
I am
disburdens.”
relinquish;
smile,
listen;
farther.
leaf,
great renown
affluent be.
horns;
enact
fire.”
drawn
top.
Orlando,
followed
sight
Guiscard.
lights,
how great
singers.
To my right side I turned myself around,
countenance
increasing,
arc,
face
turned,
Caused by the whiteness of the
temperate star,
me.
therein
shore,
creatures
figures
moved;
silent.
kingdoms,
conceived!
verses!
times seven
Vowels and consonants; and I observed
me.
depicted;
inlaid.
was
singing
itself.
thence to rise,
less,
allotted;
guide;
remembered
seemed
imprint.
justice
ingemmest!
begin
thy rays;
temple
martyrdoms!
contemplate,
earth
All gone astray after the bad example!
swords;
there
none.
vineyard
alive!
desire
outspread
fruition
enkindled
written,
beak,
‘My,’
When in conception it was ‘We’ and
‘Our.’
story.”
loves
image.
flowers
manifold,
me,
mirror
make,
veil.
doubt
fine,
Saw I become that standard, which of
lauds
rejoices.
turned
within it
make
proud being,
creature,
By not awaiting light fell immature.
nature
measured.
perforce
replete,
receives,
As eye into the ocean, penetrates;
shore,
serene
darkness
poison.
living justice
questioning.
shore
Of Indus, and is none who there can
speak
can write;
him?
believe?’
wouldst sit
has moved.
round
ones,
her,
wings
urged.
Circling around it sang, and said: “As
are
comprehend them,
mortals.”
Spirit
standard
world.
never
Christ,
nailed.
Christ!’
Who at the judgment shall be far less
near
not Christ.
condemn,
divided,
say,
behold
dispraises?
Albert,
motion,
For which the realm of Prague shall be
deserted.
Seine
die.
thirst,
so mad
cannot rest;
wished;
Fire,
life;
space.
deeds
crowns.
too,
Venice.
armed!
hansel
beast,
not.”
Paradiso: Canto XX
consumed,
kindled,
resplendent.
heaven,
leaders
cloak thee,
appear,
thoughts!
river
to rock,
waiting,
up
hollow.
thence
From out its beak, in such a form of
words
them.
sun
In mortal eagles,”
upon;
figure,
my head
He who is shining
Now knoweth he th
In so far as effect
By the reward wh
stay,
aid it;
death
so deep
wave,
unclose
suffered not
paganism,
perverse.
baptism
baptizing.
entire!
restrained
God,
We do not know as yet all the elect;
perfect,
will.”
chords,
acquires,
lights,
Even as the winking of the eyes
concords,
flames.
mind,
withdrawn;
smile,”
become
ashes.
effulgence
crushes.
breast
his power.
figure
thee.”
pasturage
My sight had in that blessed
countenance,
other.
world
leader,
dead,
sunshine gleams,
light
diffused.
custom
feathers cold;
from,
at home;
said,
me;
when
whence I
everything,
desire.”
thee;
asking,
my side;
devoutly.”
sight,”
here,
not smiled.
welcome
mantles me;
Nor did more love cause me to be more
ready,
burning,
servants
the world,
observe.”
sufficeth
see,
consorts.”
centre,
millstone.
therein:
embosomed,
conjoined
is drawn.
flame,
pure,
fixes,
returnest,
presume
feet.
smoke;
restricted
place,
sound,
recommenced,
steadfast,
Contented in my thoughts
contemplative.
heavens
revealed.
the hat
worse.
came
barefooted,
to lead them,
trains.
cloaks,
skin;
revolving,
stood still,
runs
most;
straightway
breathless boy
him,
in heaven,
holy all
good zeal?
imagine,
much,
prayers
vengeance
diest.
haste
now,
turned,
together
embellished.
not
it might
see
Even as myself the charity that burns
expressed;
late
even
chary.
stands
earth
away
the world.
were men
spring up.
cloisters
steadfast heart.”
showest
countenance
ardours,
becomes
father,
unveiled.”
own.
complete,
away.
it
him.
Rule
paper.
Abbey
cowls
fruit
monks;
keeping
worse.
suffice not
acorns.
beginning,
were more
here.”
together;
rapt.
them
down
swift
wing.
Reader, as I may unto that devout
often
my breast,
in it.
acknowledge
you,
me
you round,
salvation,”
now
acute;
vast a world
rounded ether.”
all
this globe
semblance;
thinks
just.
cause
That once I had believed her rare and
dense.
themselves
of Jove
clear
they make;
they are,
proud,
To me revolving with the eternal
Twins,
harbour!
turned.
them,
are,
sun,
Gazing intent as soon as breaks the
dawn:
zone
haste;
wistful,
appeased.
other;
more.
And Beatrice exclaimed: “Behold the
hosts
fruit
spheres!”
describing.
moon
eternal
gulfs,
enkindled,
E’en as our own doth the supernal
sights,
shone
thee
itself.
omnipotence
yearning.”
earth,
remember.
strong enough
smile.”
smile
over,
off;
theme,
it,
tremble.
prow,
himself.
blossoming?
Divine
discovered.”
counsels
me
meadow of flowers
rays,
effulgence.
them!
scope
strong enough.
invoke
were
The glory and greatness of the living
star
excelled,
descended
about it.
soul,
thunders,
beautiful,
sapphire hue.
while
diviner
enterest there.”
Mary.
living
and ways,
me.
power
seed.
mother
taken,
flame,
upward reached
affection
sight,
sweetness,
departed.
been
below!
treasure
the exile
Son
Of God and Mary, in his victory,
new,
glory.
you
your table,
time,
are
For ever at the fount whence comes his
thought.”
steadfast poles,
comets.
fly,
dancing
or slow.
beauty
brightness;
And around Beatrice three several times
not,
glaring.
love
sphere!”
fire
said.
joy,
grave,
Faith
didst walk.
believe,
sight
seen.
thereof.”
As baccalaureate arms himself, and
speaks not
question,
ready
profession.
thyself;
my brow
breathed forth.
pour
The water forth from my internal
fountain.
confession,”
explicit!”
way,
hope for,
perceivest,
placed it
evidences.”
And I thereafterward: “The things
profound,
apparition,
hope,
substance.
evidence.”
understood,
enkindled love;
over
weight;
But tell me if thou hast it in thy purse?”
round
peradventure.”
precious jewel,
founded,
outpouring
diffused
new,
therewith,
All demonstration seems to me obtuse.”
new
conclusive,
divine?”
to me,
Nature
thee
itself
converted,”
part;
enter
plant,
thorn!”
God we praise!”
branch,
opened,
believest,
presented.”
o’ercamest,
feet,”
belief,
demandest.
heavens
unmoved;
them
rains down
who wrote
these
and ‘est.’
my mind
flame,
in me.”
him
gratulating
silent;
him.
lean,
slumbered,
it,
fleece
Poet will I return, and at my font
known
then
encircled.
light
first-fruits
left,
Baron
frequented.”
In the same way as, when a dove alights
forth,
affection,
greeted,
eaten.
complete,
still,
benefactions
Of our Basilica have been described,
it
clearness.”
assured;
world
radiance.”
second fire;
hills,
great weight.
thy death,
Counts,
enamours,
others,
with it
to thee.”
continue.
flight,
Did in reply anticipate me thus:
band;
knowledge
pleasing,
them,
them;
expectation
me;
captain.
and who
instilling
bosom
effulgence,
lightning;
am inflamed
followed me
delight
thee.”
me,
his friends.
garments,
white,
words,
carols.
day.
dance
failing,
splendour
revolved
look,
elected.”
more
gaze
hers.
endeavours
become,
thyself
To see a thing which here hath no
existence?
be
number
cloister
ascended:
world.”
intermingling
made,
As to escape from danger or fatigue
beaten
disturbed,
Beatrice,
World!
quenched,
quenched it
me,
Saying: “While thou recoverest the sense
consumed,
compensate it.
dead;
divine
were
entered.
loud.”
me
thought;
target.”
me;
For Good, so far as good, when
comprehended
much greater
advantage
found
moved
founded.
love
Author,
Himself,
before thee.’
secret
edict.”
highest.
mayst proclaim
thee.”
lead.
bites
to God
being,
live,
I do,
consciousness
perverse,
the garden
good.”
sweet
my Lady
holy!”
from sleep
coat,
waking,
own,
more.
rays
its top
speaking,
bold
burned.
father,
daughter-in-law,
seest my wish;
not.”
struggles
So that his impulse needs must be
apparent,
it;
pleasure.
me,
thee;
makes,
itself.
God placed me
pleasure,
cause,
made.
exile,
bounds.
Virgilius,
two circuits
thirty,
extinct
employed;
change,
leave
you.
Good,
From whom comes all the joy that
wraps me round
proper,
cometh.
wave
second,
sixth.”
the sight.
torches
come
Mars
choir
change,
Marvel not at it; for while I am
speaking
change.
become
Perverse One,
appeased!”
adverse,
morn,
suffused.
And as a modest woman, who abides
countenance;
eclipse,
Omnipotence;
words
itself,
changed.
been
Cletus,
To be made use of in acquest of gold;
blood.
hand
seated
other;
confided
banner,
are baptized;
fire.
wolves
pastures!
still?
Gascons
beginning,
fall!
defended,
weight
mouth;
What I conceal no
conceal.”
falls
horn
Of the celestial G
ensnare me.
were touched
By that which is apparent in that
volume,
enkindles
acuteness.
here
beside it.
sustains it,
fire
So swiftly whirled, that it would have
surpassed
world;
fourth,
the fifth;
it.
one
was
crystalline
stainless spark,
imbued.
swift
spurred on.”
arranged
wheels,
What’s set before me would have
satisfied me;
perceive
remote
light,
example
it.”
take
be sated,
narrow
parts.
weal,
holds,
with it
The universe sublime, doth correspond
knows.
appearance
round,
agreement,
smaller,
mildest,
laughs
response,
seen.
come,
scintillated.
repeated,
makes
the ‘Ubi,’
been.
meditations
said,
Cherubim.
bonds,
can,
vision.
them go,
Thrones of the countenance divine are
called,
Triad.
have delight
rest.
blessedness
follows next;
good will;
proceed.
three
next;
Powers.
wheel;
gazing,
And downward so prevail, that unto
God
himself,
as Ido.
him;
eyes
smile.
thee marvel,
him,
With much more of the truth about these
circles.”
Scales,
them
balance,
gazed
o’ercome me.
seen it
splendour
him,
unfolded.
waters.
conjoined
stringed bow.
coming
produced.
unbound.
long
perfection.
twenty
art
delight
That never from their circling do they
cease.
accursed
hast seen
constrained.
were
goodness
understanding;
exalted
merit,
will.
I would not have thee doubt, but certain
be,
my words
schools,
nature
will,
unmixed
below,
Equivocating in such like prelections.
countenance
their sight
hidden;
intercepted
need
thought.
dream,
believing;
thereof.
aside
it costs
pleases
make
are
peace.
turn,
herself
So that the sunlight reached not down
below;
Indians,
respond.
forth,
know,
wind,
them.
lips,
lances.
drolleries
laugh,
asked.
it,
together.
pigs,
coinage.
right path,
time.
speech
thousands
mated.
conceptive
sweetness
amplitude
made
from us
world
itself
depth,
closed
ever
vanquished me,
Seeming enclosed by what itself
encloses,
constrained me.
turn.
passage
ever
most,
severed;
desist
verse,
bringing
leader
greatest body
light;
sweetness.
other
aspects
see.”
objects,
light,
a veil
heaven
words
myself
against it.
banks
flowers,
torrent,
moves thee
swells.
slaked.”
eyes;
the herbage,
prefaces;
themselves,
awake
wave
made.
eyelids
round.
masks
Seem other than before, if they divest
disappeared in,
for me
saw
manifest.
I saw
veracious,
Motion,
power.
flowers,
thousand
returned.
gladness.
There near and far nor add nor take
away;
govern,
breathes an odour
speak,
“Behold
convent is!
overflowing,
are fixed
upon it,
feast
come
upon you,
nurse.
sings
noble,
flowers
adorned
reascended
white
descending,
and ardour
they won.
it.
gladsomeness,
modern,
love.
them,
below!
region
delights in,
Beholding Rome and all her noble
works,
Lateran
sane,
filled!
mute.
was,
pursuing
about.
smile,
grace.
whole,
wish
suspense.
people.
said;
desire,
place.
behold her
assigned her.”
crown
Reflecting from herself the eternal rays.
thunders
image
blurred.
strong,
goodness
I recognise the virtue and the grace.
freedom,
expedients,
it.
hast healed,
body.”
more at me;
mayst
garden;
whom I burn
grace,
sated,
displayed,
God,
Now was your semblance made like
unto this?”
living
began he,
ever
place;
Queen
devoted.”
down,
vale
remoteness
pole
diminished,
each side
expanded,
More than a thousand jubilant Angels
saw I,
kind.
songs
was
delight.
fervour,
her
That it made mine more ardent to
behold.
contemplator
teacher,
words:
anointed,
pierced it.
make
descending
name
leaf.
even as
women,
Faith
partition
divided.
Upon this side, where perfect is the
flower
to come.
come.
seats
Hell.
chosen
which cleaves
divisions,
seated;
assoiled
faces,
them.
silent;
But I will loosen for thee the strong
bond
fast.
place,
hunger;
closely
themselves.
reposes
grace
suffice.
twins
roused.
supreme
crowned.
gradations,
Differing only in their first acuteness.
salvation
circumcision
add;
retained.
brightness only
minds
there,
wide.
it.
place
fire?”
have it;
as I
patricians
empires.
enrapture
Rose.
tastes.
father
Christ
flower.
bride
was won,
lived
daughter,
Her eyes she moves not while she sings
Hosanna.
tailor
cloth,
eyes,
effulgence.
advance,
obtained;
affection
aside.”
Son,
creature,
creature.
love,
By heat of which in the eternal peace
germinated.
mortals
hope.
prevailing,
thee,
fly.
asking.
creature.
Now doth this man, who from the lowest
depth
much power
seeing
prayers
short,
cloud
displayed.
canst
mayst preserve
movements;
to thee!”
us
devout;
smiling,
already
wished;
ray
true.
greater
Than our discourse, that to such vision
yields,
excess.
passion
returns not,
it;
unsealed,
leaves
thee
mind
little,
puissance,
somewhat,
verses,
bewildered me,
it;
And I remember that I was more bold
volume,
scattered;
operations,
light.
emprise
That startled Neptune with the shade of
Argo!
suspense,
enkindled.
becomes,
prospect
will,
breast.
semblance
looked,
subsistence
circles,
dimension,
reflected
As Iris is by Iris, and the third
breathed.
short
dwellest,
thyself
thyself!
conceived
eyes,
Within itself, of its own very colour
therein.
wants,
circle
finds place;
this,
smote
wish.
will,
other stars.
APPENDIX
SIX SONNETS ON DANTE’S
DIVINE COMEDY BY HENRY
WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
(18071882)
feet
floor
gate,
pray,
these towers!
sleeves
with leaves
bowers,
flowers!
gargoyled eaves
living thieves,
lowers!
brain,
of wrong,
What passionate outcry of a soul in pain,
with thine.
perfume;
shine;
of pine,
tomb.
below
your sins
As scarlet be,” and ends with “as the
snow.”
IV
With snow-white veil, and garments as
of flame,
ago
the woe
splendors came;
thy name,
snow
overflow
shame.
gleam
cast,
Seems on thy lifted forehead to
increase;
dream
peace.
blaze
died,
displays
roundelays,
multiplied;
of praise.
love
spires
heaven above
shines
pines,
heights,
heard,
proselytes,
wondrous word,
And many are amazed and many doubt.
POSTSCRIPT
‘Ich habe unter meinen Papieren ein
Blatt gefunden,
Musik nenne.’
March 23)
(though common) t
original ‘erstarrte.’
necessarily chill in
it requires an artist
translation of the P
it inappropriate to
Danteum would no
Terragni generated
Comedy’s structure
TECHNICAL NOTES
Text that was originally in italics has
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