Dante and His Circle, with the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300): A Collection of Lyrics |
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afterwards angels anguish answer BALLATA Beatrice Beatrice Portinari beauty Becchina began behold bitter blessed Boccaccio called CANZONE Cecco Cecco Angiolieri CINO DA PISTOIA Cino's Commedia Corso Donati countenance DANTE ALIGHIERI Dante's dead dear death desire Dino Compagni Donati doth dwell exile eyes face Farinata degli Uberti fear Florence FORESE DONATI gaze Ghibellines gone grace gracious creature grief Guelfs Guido Cavalcanti GUIDO ORLANDI hath hear Heaven honour hope Italian Italian poetry lady's Lapo Lapo Gianni look Lord Love Love's matter Messer Corso noble peace perceived piteous pity poem poetry poets praise pray rhyme saith salutation second begins second part begins seemed shalt sighs Song sore soul spake speak speech spirit spoken sweet tears tell thee thereof therewithal thine thing third thou art thou hast thought thy heart truth unto Vita Nuova weeping wept Wherefore wherein words write written
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Page 37 - O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam , attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus ; e pregare che mi soffermo d
Page 60 - CANST thou indeed be he that still would sing Of our dear lady unto none but us ? For though thy voice confirms that it is thus, Thy visage might another witness bring. And wherefore is thy grief so sore a thing That grieving thou mak'st others dolorous ? Hast thou too seen her weep, that thou from us Canst not conceal thine inward sorrowing ? Nay, leave our woe to us : let us alone : T"were sin if one should strive to soothe our woe, For in her weeping we have heard her speak : Also her look's so...
Page 31 - Her dress, on that day, was of a most noble colour, a subdued and goodly crimson, girdled and adorned in such sort as best suited with 31 her very tender age. At that moment, I say most truly that the spirit of life, which hath its dwelling in the secretest chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that the least pulses of my body shook therewith ; and in trembling it said these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi (Here is a deity stronger than I; who, coming, shall...
Page 47 - Even as the others mock, thou mockest me; Not dreaming, noble lady, whence it is That I am taken with strange semblances, Seeing thy face which is so fair to see: For else, compassion would not suffer thee To grieve my heart with such harsh scoffs as these. Lo! Love, when thou art present, sits at ease, And bears his mastership so mightily, That all my troubled senses he thrusts out, Sorely tormenting some, and slaying some, Till none but he is left and has free range To gaze on thee. This makes...
Page 79 - WHATEVER while the thought comes over me That I may not again Behold that lady whom I mourn for "now, About my heart my mind brings constantly So much of extreme pain That I say, Soul of mine, why stayest thou ? Truly the anguish, soul, that we must bow Beneath, until we win out of this life, Gives me full oft a fear that trembleth : So that I call on Death Even as on Sleep one calleth after strife, Saying, Come unto me. Life showeth grim And bare ; and if one dies, I envy him.
Page 75 - The eyes that weep for pity of the heart Have wept so long that their grief languisheth And they have no more tears to weep withal: And now, if I would ease me of a part Of what, little by little, leads to death, It must be done by speech, or not at all. And because often, thinking, I recall How it was pleasant, ere she went afar, To talk of her with you, kind damozels, I talk with no one else, But only with such hearts as women's are. And I will say — still sobbing as speech fails — That she...
Page 88 - His beautiful countenance * (upon which countenance my dear lady now looketh continually). And certain among these pilgrims, who seemed very thoughtful, passed by a path which is well-nigh in the midst of the city where my most gracious lady was born, and abode, and at last died. Then I, beholding them, said within myself : " These pilgrims seem to be come from very far ; and I think they cannot have heard speak of this lady, or know anything concerning her. Their thoughts are not of her, but of...
Page 67 - And in his speech he laugh'd and laugh'd again. Then, while it was his pleasure to remain, I chanced to look the way he had drawn near, And saw the Ladies Joan and Beatrice Approach me, this the other following, One and a second marvel instantly. And even as now my memory speaketh this, Love spake it then: " The first is christen'd Spring; The second Love, she is so like to me.
Page 34 - ... whereby in short space I became so weak and so reduced that it was irksome to many of my friends to look upon me; while others, being moved by spite, went about to discover what it was my wish should be concealed. Wherefore I (perceiving the drift of their unkindly questions), by Love's will, who directed me according to the counsels of reason, told them how it was Love himself who had thus dealt with me: and I said so, because the thing was so plainly to be discerned in my countenance that there...
Page 90 - BEYOND the sphere which spreads to widest space Now soars the sigh that my heart sends above ; A new perception born of grieving Love Guideth it upward the untrodden ways. When it hath reached unto the end, and stays, It sees a lady round whom splendours move In homage ; till, by the great light thereof Abashed, the pilgrim spirit stands at gaze.