Dante the Man and the PoetW. Heffer & Sons, Limited, 1923 - 190 pages |
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Æneid allusion Angels Bargello Beatrice Beatrice Portinari beautiful behold Bianchi blessed Boccaccio Brunetto Latini Buondelmonte Cacciaguida Canto Cerchio chapel Charles of Valois Christ Church citizens Convivio Dante Alighieri Dante's Dante's death daughter describes Dino Dino Compagni Divina Commedia Divine Donati earth Emperor eternal exile eyes feeling Florence Florentines Francesco frescoes gaze Ghibellines Giotto glory grief Guelfs Guido Novello hath heart Heaven Hell Holy honour hope Inferno Italian Italy journey Lady Latin Leonardo Bruni light living look lover Messer mind Neri never noble Papal Paradiso passage passed peace Photograph A. T. poem poet poet's Pope Portinari portrait Prince punishment Purgatorio Ravenna repented Roman Rome says Scala seemed sight Sixth Centenary sonnet sorrow soul spirit stars strife sweet tells thee things thou thought tomb Translated turn Tuscany unto Verona Virgil vision Vita Nuova wonder words write
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Page 30 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, — The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?
Page 142 - Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. 19 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Page 135 - Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura Che la diritta via era smarrita.
Page 41 - Certain people of importance" (Such he gave his daily dreadful line to) "Entered and would seize, forsooth, the poet." Says the poet — "Then I stopped my painting.
Page 37 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 33 - And therewithal such a bewilderment Possess'd me, that I shut mine eyes for peace; And in my brain did cease Order of thought, and every healthful thing. Afterwards, wandering Amid a swarm of doubts that came and went, Some certain women's faces hurried by, And shrieked to me, 'Thou too shalt die, shalt die!
Page 30 - I think one is always in love with something or other; the error, and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it, consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal.
Page 146 - Of joy, when misery is at hand. That kens Thy learn'd instructor. Yet so eagerly If thou art bent to know the primal root. From whence our love gat being, I will do As one, who weeps and tells his tale. One day, For our delight we read of Lancelot, How him love thrall'd.
Page 151 - These weeds of miserable flesh we wear; And do thou strip them off from us again.' Then, not to make them sadder, I kept down My spirit in stillness. That day and the next We all were silent. Ah, obdurate earth! Why open'dst not upon us? When we came To the fourth day, then Gaddo at my feet Outstretch'd did fling him, crying, 'Hast no help For me, my father!
Page 29 - ... wanderings, far aloft In the clear golden prime of my youth's dawn, Upon the fairy isles of sunny lawn, Amid the enchanted mountains, and the caves Of divine sleep, and on the air-like waves Of wonder-level dream, whose tremulous floor Paved her light steps ; on an imagined shore, Under the gray beak of some promontory She met me, robed in such exceeding glory That I beheld her not.