Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo by Michelangelo

Author:Michelangelo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

295

UNFINISHED SONNET ( 1555)

Though a long span of wretched foolish habit

Needs longer, to be cleaned, its opposite,

My death, already near, will not allow it,

Nor check my evil wish from what it wanted.

296

SONNET

It no more grieved and vexed the chosen spirits

Than made them glad, that you, not they, had suffered

Death, and had thus reopened with your blood

To earthly man the Heavens’ shuttered gates.

Glad that you had redeemed him from the first

Sin of his wretched lot, whom you had made,

Grieved when they knew your torment, sore and hard,

Becoming on the cross servant of servants.

Of who and whence you were Heaven gave such sign

That it darkened its eyes, split earth apart,

Made mountains tremble and the waters churn,

Snatched the great fathers from the shadowy zone,

The ugly angels drove to greater hurt,

And only man rejoiced, baptized, reborn.

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