Dante Alighieri by Paget Toynbee

Author:Paget Toynbee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2005-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

DANTE AND HIS BOOK

From the picture by Domenico di Michelino, in the Duomo at Florence

1“To every captive soul and gentle heart

Unto whose ken these present words shall come,

That they may write me back their thoughts thereon,

Be greeting in their Lord’s name, that is Love.

A third part well-nigh of those hours had passed

Wherein shines brightly every star on high,

When on a sudden Love appeared to me;

And still I shudder when I think on him.

Methought Love stood all joyful as he held

My heart within his hand, and in his arms

My Lady bore enshrouded and asleep.

Whom then he waked, and of this flaming heart

Humbly did make her eat, she sore afraid—

Then, as I looked, he wept and went his way.”

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