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"I am aware that I am inviting a certain amount of ugly suspicion,"
Gifford agreed, "but the truth, which might have remained a mystery, has
been forced from me by the necessity of protecting Miss Morriston.
Perhaps you had better hear a frank account of the whole story, and the
explanation of what I admit you are so ... | The Hunt Ball Mystery | Magnay, William, Sir | 1855 | 1917 | ['en'] | 7 | {'Detective and mystery stories'} | PG10029 | |
"It is well to be sanguine," Henshaw sneered. "If you have not already
done so, are you prepared to repeat your story to the police?"
"Most certainly I am, if necessary," was the prompt answer. "But I do not
fancy you will wish me to do so."
Henshaw's look was one of surprise, real or affected. "Indeed? Why so?"
"I wi... | The Hunt Ball Mystery | Magnay, William, Sir | 1855 | 1917 | ['en'] | 7 | {'Detective and mystery stories'} | PG10029 | |
For a while Henshaw made no reply. He sat thinking strenuously, evidently
weighing his chances, estimating the strength of his adversary's
position. Now and again he shot a glance, half probing, half sullen, at
Gifford, who leaned back against the mantelpiece coolly awaiting his
answer. At length he spoke.
"This is a ... | The Hunt Ball Mystery | Magnay, William, Sir | 1855 | 1917 | ['en'] | 7 | {'Detective and mystery stories'} | PG10029 | |
Gifford ignored the covert threat. "Very well, then," he said, throwing
open the door and standing aside for Henshaw to pass out; "I will go
alone. Yes; it will be better."
But Henshaw did not move.
"I don't quite gather," he said in answer to Gifford's glance of inquiry,
"exactly what your object is in taking this st... | The Hunt Ball Mystery | Magnay, William, Sir | 1855 | 1917 | ['en'] | 7 | {'Detective and mystery stories'} | PG10029 | |
"I am glad to hear you have come to a sensible conclusion," he said as
coolly as the sense of triumph would let him. "Whatever happened you
could hardly have expected your--plans to succeed."
"I don't know that," Henshaw retorted, with a touch of a beaten man's
malice. "Anyhow I have my own ideas on the subject. But l... | The Hunt Ball Mystery | Magnay, William, Sir | 1855 | 1917 | ['en'] | 7 | {'Detective and mystery stories'} | PG10029 | |
"Yes, that will do," Gifford answered curtly when he had read the
few lines.
Henshaw rose with a rather mocking smile. "I congratulate you on
your--luck, Mr. Gifford," he said with a studied emphasis, and so
left the room.
CHAPTER XXVII
GIFFORD'S REWARD
With the precious declaration in his pocket Gifford lost no tim... | The Hunt Ball Mystery | Magnay, William, Sir | 1855 | 1917 | ['en'] | 7 | {'Detective and mystery stories'} | PG10029 | |
"That paper," she said in a low voice, "means life to me instead of a
living death; it means more than I can tell you, more than even you can
understand."
He had risen, but before he could speak she had come to him and
impulsively taken his hand. "Mr. Gifford," she said, "tell me how I can
repay you."
Her eyes met his... | The Hunt Ball Mystery | Magnay, William, Sir | 1855 | 1917 | ['en'] | 7 | {'Detective and mystery stories'} | PG10029 | |
"Very well," she returned simply, "I understand. I am sorry for my
mistake."
Her manner shook his resolution. "I can't think you understand," he
replied forcibly. "I only ask, in fairness to yourself, for time. Don't
think that I am not desperately in love with you. You must have seen it,
ever since our first confiden... | The Hunt Ball Mystery | Magnay, William, Sir | 1855 | 1917 | ['en'] | 7 | {'Detective and mystery stories'} | PG10029 | |
The Divine Comedy
of Dante Alighieri
Translated by
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
PURGATORIO
Contents
I. The Shores of Purgatory. The Four Stars. Cato of Utica. The Rush.
II. The Celestial Pilot. Casella. The Departure.
III. Discourse on the Limits of Reason. The Foot of the Mountain. Those who died in Contumacy of Holy ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Purgatorio: Canto I
To run o’er better waters hoists its sail
The little vessel of my genius now,
That leaves behind itself a sea so cruel;
And of that second kingdom will I sing
Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself,
And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy.
But let dead Poesy here rise again,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Then did my Leader lay his grasp upon me,
And with his words, and with his hands and signs,
Reverent he made in me my knees and brow;
Then answered him: “I came not of myself;
A Lady from Heaven descended, at whose prayers
I aided this one with my company.
But since it is thy will more be unfolded
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Go, then, and see thou gird this one about
With a smooth rush, and that thou wash his face,
So that thou cleanse away all stain therefrom,
For ’twere not fitting that the eye o’ercast
By any mist should go before the first
Angel, who is of those of Paradise.
This little island round about its base
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
So that the white and the vermilion cheeks
Of beautiful Aurora, where I was,
By too great age were changing into orange.
We still were on the border of the sea,
Like people who are thinking of their road,
Who go in heart and with the body stay;
And lo! as when, upon the approach of morning,
Through... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
On every side was darting forth the day.
The sun, who had with his resplendent shafts
From the mid-heaven chased forth the Capricorn,
When the new people lifted up their faces
Towards us, saying to us: “If ye know,
Show us the way to go unto the mountain.”
And answer made Virgilius: “Ye believe
Per... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Unto that outlet now his wing is pointed,
Because for evermore assemble there
Those who tow’rds Acheron do not descend.”
And I: “If some new law take not from thee
Memory or practice of the song of love,
Which used to quiet in me all my longings,
Thee may it please to comfort therewithal
Somewhat t... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
The sun, that in our rear was flaming red,
Was broken in front of me into the figure
Which had in me the stoppage of its rays;
Unto one side I turned me, with the fear
Of being left alone, when I beheld
Only in front of me the ground obscured.
“Why dost thou still mistrust?” my Comforter
Began to s... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Then he looked at me, and with frank expression
Replied: “Let us go there, for they come slowly,
And thou be steadfast in thy hope, sweet son.”
Still was that people as far off from us,
After a thousand steps of ours I say,
As a good thrower with his hand would reach,
When they all crowded unto the har... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
When with humility I had disclaimed
E’er having seen him, “Now behold!” he said,
And showed me high upon his breast a wound.
Then said he with a smile: “I am Manfredi,
The grandson of the Empress Costanza;
Therefore, when thou returnest, I beseech thee
Go to my daughter beautiful, the mother
Of Sic... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Of this I had experience positive
In hearing and in gazing at that spirit;
For fifty full degrees uprisen was
The sun, and I had not perceived it, when
We came to where those souls with one accord
Cried out unto us: “Here is what you ask.”
A greater opening ofttimes hedges up
With but a little fork... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Whereon he said to me: “If Castor and Pollux
Were in the company of yonder mirror,
That up and down conducteth with its light,
Thou wouldst behold the zodiac’s jagged wheel
Revolving still more near unto the Bears,
Unless it swerved aside from its old track.
How that may be wouldst thou have power to t... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And one of them, who seemed to me fatigued,
Was sitting down, and both his knees embraced,
Holding his face low down between them bowed.
“O my sweet Lord,” I said, “do turn thine eye
On him who shows himself more negligent
Then even Sloth herself his sister were.”
Then he turned round to us, and he gav... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Come after me, and let the people talk;
Stand like a steadfast tower, that never wags
Its top for all the blowing of the winds;
For evermore the man in whom is springing
Thought upon thought, removes from him the mark,
Because the force of one the other weakens.”
What could I say in answer but “I come”... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Speak ye, and I will do it, by that peace
Which, following the feet of such a Guide,
From world to world makes itself sought by me.”
And one began: “Each one has confidence
In thy good offices without an oath,
Unless the I cannot cut off the I will;
Whence I, who speak alone before the others,
Pray... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Well knowest thou how in the air is gathered
That humid vapour which to water turns,
Soon as it rises where the cold doth grasp it.
He joined that evil will, which aye seeks evil,
To intellect, and moved the mist and wind
By means of power, which his own nature gave;
Thereafter, when the day was spent,... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
I saw Count Orso; and the soul divided
By hatred and by envy from its body,
As it declared, and not for crime committed,
Pierre de la Brosse I say; and here provide
While still on earth the Lady of Brabant,
So that for this she be of no worse flock!
As soon as I was free from all those shades
Who o... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Still near to it Virgilius drew, entreating
That it would point us out the best ascent;
And it replied not unto his demand,
But of our native land and of our life
It questioned us; and the sweet Guide began:
“Mantua,”—and the shade, all in itself recluse,
Rose tow’rds him from the place where first it ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Come and behold how loving are the people;
And if for us no pity moveth thee,
Come and be made ashamed of thy renown!
And if it lawful be, O Jove Supreme!
Who upon earth for us wast crucified,
Are thy just eyes averted otherwhere?
Or preparation is ’t, that, in the abyss
Of thine own counsel, for s... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
As one who suddenly before him sees
Something whereat he marvels, who believes
And yet does not, saying, “It is! it is not!”
So he appeared; and then bowed down his brow,
And with humility returned towards him,
And, where inferiors embrace, embraced him.
“O glory of the Latians, thou,” he said,
“Th... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Not that aught else would hindrance give, however,
To going up, save the nocturnal darkness;
This with the want of power the will perplexes.
We might indeed therewith return below,
And, wandering, walk the hill-side round about,
While the horizon holds the day imprisoned.”
Thereon my Lord, as if in won... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
His name was Ottocar; and in swaddling-clothes
Far better he than bearded Winceslaus
His son, who feeds in luxury and ease.
And the small-nosed, who close in council seems
With him that has an aspect so benign,
Died fleeing and disflowering the lily;
Look there, how he is beating at his breast!
Beh... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
It joined and lifted upward both its palms,
Fixing its eyes upon the orient,
As if it said to God, “Naught else I care for.”
“Te lucis ante” so devoutly issued
Forth from its mouth, and with such dulcet notes,
It made me issue forth from my own mind.
And then the others, sweetly and devoutly,
Accom... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
“Oh!” said I to him, “through the dismal places
I came this morn; and am in the first life,
Albeit the other, going thus, I gain.”
And on the instant my reply was heard,
He and Sordello both shrank back from me,
Like people who are suddenly bewildered.
One to Virgilius, and the other turned
To one ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
I did not see, and therefore cannot say
How the celestial falcons ’gan to move,
But well I saw that they were both in motion.
Hearing the air cleft by their verdant wings,
The serpent fled, and round the Angels wheeled,
Up to their stations flying back alike.
The shade that to the Judge had near approa... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
When I, who something had of Adam in me,
Vanquished by sleep, upon the grass reclined,
There were all five of us already sat.
Just at the hour when her sad lay begins
The little swallow, near unto the morning,
Perchance in memory of her former woes,
And when the mind of man, a wanderer
More from th... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Sordello and the other noble shapes
Remained; she took thee, and, as day grew bright,
Upward she came, and I upon her footsteps.
She laid thee here; and first her beauteous eyes
That open entrance pointed out to me;
Then she and sleep together went away.”
In guise of one whose doubts are reassured,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Along the three stairs upward with good will
Did my Conductor draw me, saying: “Ask
Humbly that he the fastening may undo.”
Devoutly at the holy feet I cast me,
For mercy’s sake besought that he would open,
But first upon my breast three times I smote.
Seven P’s upon my forehead he described
With t... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
We mounted upward through a rifted rock,
Which undulated to this side and that,
Even as a wave receding and advancing.
“Here it behoves us use a little art,”
Began my Leader, “to adapt ourselves
Now here, now there, to the receding side.”
And this our footsteps so infrequent made,
That sooner had t... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
There sculptured in the self-same marble were
The cart and oxen, drawing the holy ark,
Wherefore one dreads an office not appointed.
People appeared in front, and all of them
In seven choirs divided, of two senses
Made one say “No,” the other, “Yes, they sing.”
Likewise unto the smoke of the frankincen... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Mine eyes, that in beholding were intent
To see new things, of which they curious are,
In turning round towards him were not slow.
But still I wish not, Reader, thou shouldst swerve
From thy good purposes, because thou hearest
How God ordaineth that the debt be paid;
Attend not to the fashion of the to... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Even as thine own Angels of their will
Make sacrifice to thee, Hosanna singing,
So may all men make sacrifice of theirs.
Give unto us this day our daily manna,
Withouten which in this rough wilderness
Backward goes he who toils most to advance.
And even as we the trespass we have suffered
Pardon in... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
A Latian was I, and born of a great Tuscan;
Guglielmo Aldobrandeschi was my father;
I know not if his name were ever with you.
The ancient blood and deeds of gallantry
Of my progenitors so arrogant made me
That, thinking not upon the common mother,
All men I held in scorn to such extent
I died ther... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Ere pass a thousand years? which is a shorter
Space to the eterne, than twinkling of an eye
Unto the circle that in heaven wheels slowest.
With him, who takes so little of the road
In front of me, all Tuscany resounded;
And now he scarce is lisped of in Siena,
Where he was lord, what time was overthrow... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
I had moved on, and followed willingly
The footsteps of my Master, and we both
Already showed how light of foot we were,
When unto me he said: “Cast down thine eyes;
’Twere well for thee, to alleviate the way,
To look upon the bed beneath thy feet.”
As, that some memory may exist of them,
Above the... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Displayed how routed fled the Assyrians
After that Holofernes had been slain,
And likewise the remainder of that slaughter.
I saw there Troy in ashes and in caverns;
O Ilion! thee, how abject and debased,
Displayed the image that is there discerned!
Whoe’er of pencil master was or stile,
That could... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
E’en thus attempered is the bank which falls
Sheer downward from the second circle there;
But on this, side and that the high rock graze.
As we were turning thitherward our persons,
“Beati pauperes spiritu,” voices
Sang in such wise that speech could tell it not.
Ah me! how different are these entrance... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
“O thou sweet light! with trust in whom I enter
Upon this novel journey, do thou lead us,”
Said he, “as one within here should be led.
Thou warmest the world, thou shinest over it;
If other reason prompt not otherwise,
Thy rays should evermore our leaders be!”
As much as here is counted for a mile,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Thus do the blind, in want of livelihood,
Stand at the doors of churches asking alms,
And one upon another leans his head,
So that in others pity soon may rise,
Not only at the accent of their words,
But at their aspect, which no less implores.
And as unto the blind the sun comes not,
So to the sha... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Sapient I was not, although I Sapia
Was called, and I was at another’s harm
More happy far than at my own good fortune.
And that thou mayst not think that I deceive thee,
Hear if I was as foolish as I tell thee.
The arc already of my years descending,
My fellow-citizens near unto Colle
Were joined ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
But there still more the admirals will lose.”
Purgatorio: Canto XIV
“Who is this one that goes about our mountain,
Or ever Death has given him power of flight,
And opes his eyes and shuts them at his will?”
“I know not who, but know he’s not alone;
Ask him thyself, for thou art nearer to him,
And gen... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Curs findeth it thereafter, coming downward,
More snarling than their puissance demands,
And turns from them disdainfully its muzzle.
It goes on falling, and the more it grows,
The more it finds the dogs becoming wolves,
This maledict and misadventurous ditch.
Descended then through many a hollow gulf,... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And not alone his blood is made devoid,
’Twixt Po and mount, and sea-shore and the Reno,
Of good required for truth and for diversion;
For all within these boundaries is full
Of venomous roots, so that too tardily
By cultivation now would they diminish.
Where is good Lizio, and Arrigo Manardi,
Pier... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
“I am Aglaurus, who became a stone!”
And then, to press myself close to the Poet,
I backward, and not forward, took a step.
Already on all sides the air was quiet;
And said he to me: “That was the hard curb
That ought to hold a man within his bounds;
But you take in the bait so that the hook
Of the... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
When we had reached the Angel benedight,
With joyful voice he said: “Here enter in
To stairway far less steep than are the others.”
We mounting were, already thence departed,
And “Beati misericordes” was
Behind us sung, “Rejoice, thou that o’ercomest!”
My Master and myself, we two alone
Were going ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Even as I wished to say, “Thou dost appease me,”
I saw that I had reached another circle,
So that my eager eyes made me keep silence.
There it appeared to me that in a vision
Ecstatic on a sudden I was rapt,
And in a temple many persons saw;
And at the door a woman, with the sweet
Behaviour of a mo... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
What thou hast seen was that thou mayst not fail
To ope thy heart unto the waters of peace,
Which from the eternal fountain are diffused.
I did not ask, ‘What ails thee?’ as he does
Who only looketh with the eyes that see not
When of the soul bereft the body lies,
But asked it to give vigour to thy fee... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And I: “O creature that dost cleanse thyself
To return beautiful to Him who made thee,
Thou shalt hear marvels if thou follow me.”
“Thee will I follow far as is allowed me,”
He answered; “and if smoke prevent our seeing,
Hearing shall keep us joined instead thereof.”
Thereon began I: “With that swathin... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And free volition; which, if some fatigue
In the first battles with the heavens it suffers,
Afterwards conquers all, if well ’tis nurtured.
To greater force and to a better nature,
Though free, ye subject are, and that creates
The mind in you the heavens have not in charge.
Hence, if the present world ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
True, three old men are left, in whom upbraids
The ancient age the new, and late they deem it
That God restore them to the better life:
Currado da Palazzo, and good Gherardo,
And Guido da Castel, who better named is,
In fashion of the French, the simple Lombard:
Say thou henceforward that the Church of... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And hereupon my mind was so withdrawn
Within itself, that from without there came
Nothing that then might be received by it.
Then reigned within my lofty fantasy
One crucified, disdainful and ferocious
In countenance, and even thus was dying.
Around him were the great Ahasuerus,
Esther his wife, an... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Already over us were so uplifted
The latest sunbeams, which the night pursues,
That upon many sides the stars appeared.
“O manhood mine, why dost thou vanish so?”
I said within myself; for I perceived
The vigour of my legs was put in truce.
We at the point were where no more ascends
The stairway up... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
There are, who power, grace, honour, and renown
Fear they may lose because another rises,
Thence are so sad that the reverse they love;
And there are those whom injury seems to chafe,
So that it makes them greedy for revenge,
And such must needs shape out another’s harm.
This threefold love is wept for... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And if, when turned, towards it she incline,
Love is that inclination; it is nature,
Which is by pleasure bound in you anew
Then even as the fire doth upward move
By its own form, which to ascend is born,
Where longest in its matter it endures,
So comes the captive soul into desire,
Which is a moti... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
The noble virtue Beatrice understands
By the free will; and therefore see that thou
Bear it in mind, if she should speak of it.”
The moon, belated almost unto midnight,
Now made the stars appear to us more rare,
Formed like a bucket, that is all ablaze,
And counter to the heavens ran through those path... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And he has one foot in the grave already,
Who shall erelong lament that monastery,
And sorry be of having there had power,
Because his son, in his whole body sick,
And worse in mind, and who was evil-born,
He put into the place of its true pastor.”
If more he said, or silent was, I know not,
He had... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
I drew Ulysses from his wandering way
Unto my song, and he who dwells with me
Seldom departs so wholly I content him.”
Her mouth was not yet closed again, before
Appeared a Lady saintly and alert
Close at my side to put her to confusion.
“Virgilius, O Virgilius! who is this?”
Sternly she said; and ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Such I became, and such, as far as cleaves
The rock to give a way to him who mounts,
Went on to where the circling doth begin.
On the fifth circle when I had come forth,
People I saw upon it who were weeping,
Stretched prone upon the ground, all downward turned.
“Adhaesit pavimento anima mea,”
I he... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
What avarice does is here made manifest
In the purgation of these souls converted,
And no more bitter pain the Mountain has.
Even as our eye did not uplift itself
Aloft, being fastened upon earthly things,
So justice here has merged it in the earth.
As avarice had extinguished our affection
For eve... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Onward we went with footsteps slow and scarce,
And I attentive to the shades I heard
Piteously weeping and bemoaning them;
And I by peradventure heard “Sweet Mary!”
Uttered in front of us amid the weeping
Even as a woman does who is in child-birth;
And in continuance: “How poor thou wast
Is manifes... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Then it began with falsehood and with force
Its rapine; and thereafter, for amends,
Took Ponthieu, Normandy, and Gascony.
Charles came to Italy, and for amends
A victim made of Conradin, and then
Thrust Thomas back to heaven, for amends.
A time I see, not very distant now,
Which draweth forth anoth... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Then we accuse Sapphira with her husband,
We laud the hoof-beats Heliodorus had,
And the whole mount in infamy encircles
Polymnestor who murdered Polydorus.
Here finally is cried: ‘O Crassus, tell us,
For thou dost know, what is the taste of gold?’
Sometimes we speak, one loud, another low,
Accordi... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
A shade appeared to us, and came behind us,
Down gazing on the prostrate multitude,
Nor were we ware of it, until it spake,
Saying, “My brothers, may God give you peace!”
We turned us suddenly, and Virgilius rendered
To him the countersign thereto conforming.
Thereon began he: “In the blessed council,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Lower down perchance it trembles less or more,
But, for the wind that in the earth is hidden
I know not how, up here it never trembled.
It trembles here, whenever any soul
Feels itself pure, so that it soars, or moves
To mount aloft, and such a cry attends it.
Of purity the will alone gives proof,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And to have lived upon the earth what time
Virgilius lived, I would accept one sun
More than I must ere issuing from my ban.”
These words towards me made Virgilius turn
With looks that in their silence said, “Be silent!”
But yet the power that wills cannot do all things;
For tears and laughter are such... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
When thus Virgilius began: “The love
Kindled by virtue aye another kindles,
Provided outwardly its flame appear.
Hence from the hour that Juvenal descended
Among us into the infernal Limbo,
Who made apparent to me thy affection,
My kindliness towards thee was as great
As ever bound one to an unseen... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
“From that which Clio there with thee preludes,
It does not seem that yet had made thee faithful
That faith without which no good works suffice.
If this be so, what candles or what sun
Scattered thy darkness so that thou didst trim
Thy sails behind the Fisherman thereafter?”
And he to him: “Thou first ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Euripides is with us, Antiphon,
Simonides, Agatho, and many other
Greeks who of old their brows with laurel decked.
There some of thine own people may be seen,
Antigone, Deiphile and Argia,
And there Ismene mournful as of old.
There she is seen who pointed out Langia;
There is Tiresias’ daughter, a... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
As by the Evangel is revealed to you.”
Purgatorio: Canto XXIII
The while among the verdant leaves mine eyes
I riveted, as he is wont to do
Who wastes his life pursuing little birds,
My more than Father said unto me: “Son,
Come now; because the time that is ordained us
More usefully should be apportio... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
“Ah, do not look at this dry leprosy,”
Entreated he, “which doth my skin discolour,
Nor at default of flesh that I may have;
But tell me truth of thee, and who are those
Two souls, that yonder make for thee an escort;
Do not delay in speaking unto me.”
“That face of thine, which dead I once bewept,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
For the Barbagia of Sardinia
By far more modest in its women is
Than the Barbagia I have left her in.
O brother sweet, what wilt thou have me say?
A future time is in my sight already,
To which this hour will not be very old,
When from the pulpit shall be interdicted
To the unblushing womankind of ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And I, continuing my colloquy,
Said: “Peradventure he goes up more slowly
Than he would do, for other people’s sake.
But tell me, if thou knowest, where is Piccarda;
Tell me if any one of note I see
Among this folk that gazes at me so.”
“My sister, who, ’twixt beautiful and good,
I know not which w... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
“O brother, now I see,” he said, “the knot
Which me, the Notary, and Guittone held
Short of the sweet new style that now I hear.
I do perceive full clearly how your pens
Go closely following after him who dictates,
Which with our own forsooth came not to pass;
And he who sets himself to go beyond,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And when before us he had gone so far
Mine eyes became to him such pursuivants
As was my understanding to his words,
Appeared to me with laden and living boughs
Another apple-tree, and not far distant,
From having but just then turned thitherward.
People I saw beneath it lift their hands,
And cry I... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
So did I feel a breeze strike in the midst
My front, and felt the moving of the plumes
That breathed around an odour of ambrosia;
And heard it said: “Blessed are they whom grace
So much illumines, that the love of taste
Excites not in their breasts too great desire,
Hungering at all times so far as is ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Takes in the heart for all the human members
Virtue informative, as being that
Which to be changed to them goes through the veins
Again digest, descends it where ’tis better
Silent to be than say; and then drops thence
Upon another’s blood in natural vase.
There one together with the other mingles,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Soon as the place there circumscribeth it,
The virtue informative rays round about,
As, and as much as, in the living members.
And even as the air, when full of rain,
By alien rays that are therein reflected,
With divers colours shows itself adorned,
So there the neighbouring air doth shape itself
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Then to their song returned they; then the wives
They shouted, and the husbands who were chaste.
As virtue and the marriage vow imposes.
And I believe that them this mode suffices,
For all the time the fire is burning them;
With such care is it needful, and such food,
That the last wound of all should ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
The new-come people: “Sodom and Gomorrah!”
The rest: “Into the cow Pasiphae enters,
So that the bull unto her lust may run!”
Then as the cranes, that to Riphaean mountains
Might fly in part, and part towards the sands,
These of the frost, those of the sun avoidant,
One folk is going, and the other comi... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
In our opprobrium by us is read,
When we part company, the name of her
Who bestialized herself in bestial wood.
Now knowest thou our acts, and what our crime was;
Wouldst thou perchance by name know who we are,
There is not time to tell, nor could I do it.
Thy wish to know me shall in sooth be granted;... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Then, to give place perchance to one behind,
Whom he had near, he vanished in the fire
As fish in water going to the bottom.
I moved a little tow’rds him pointed out,
And said that to his name my own desire
An honourable place was making ready.
He of his own free will began to say:
‘Tan m’ abellis ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Believe for certain, shouldst thou stand a full
Millennium in the bosom of this flame,
It could not make thee bald a single hair.
And if perchance thou think that I deceive thee,
Draw near to it, and put it to the proof
With thine own hands upon thy garment’s hem.
Now lay aside, now lay aside all fear,... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Each of us of a stair had made his bed;
Because the nature of the mount took from us
The power of climbing, more than the delight.
Even as in ruminating passive grow
The goats, who have been swift and venturesome
Upon the mountain-tops ere they were fed,
Hushed in the shadow, while the sun is hot,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Such longing upon longing came upon me
To be above, that at each step thereafter
For flight I felt in me the pinions growing.
When underneath us was the stairway all
Run o’er, and we were on the highest step,
Virgilius fastened upon me his eyes,
And said: “The temporal fire and the eternal,
Son, th... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And lo! my further course a stream cut off,
Which tow’rd the left hand with its little waves
Bent down the grass that on its margin sprang.
All waters that on earth most limpid are
Would seem to have within themselves some mixture
Compared with that which nothing doth conceal,
Although it moves on with... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
More hatred from Leander did not suffer
For rolling between Sestos and Abydos,
Than that from me, because it oped not then.
“Ye are new-comers; and because I smile,”
Began she, “peradventure, in this place
Elect to human nature for its nest,
Some apprehension keeps you marvelling;
But the psalm ‘De... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
The water which thou seest springs not from vein
Restored by vapour that the cold condenses,
Like to a stream that gains or loses breath;
But issues from a fountain safe and certain,
Which by the will of God as much regains
As it discharges, open on two sides.
Upon this side with virtue it descends,
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
But since the lightning ceases as it comes,
And that continuing brightened more and more,
Within my thought I said, “What thing is this?”
And a delicious melody there ran
Along the luminous air, whence holy zeal
Made me rebuke the hardihood of Eve;
For there where earth and heaven obedient were,
Th... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
The water on my left flank was resplendent,
And back to me reflected my left side,
E’en as a mirror, if I looked therein.
When I upon my margin had such post
That nothing but the stream divided us,
Better to see I gave my steps repose;
And I beheld the flamelets onward go,
Leaving behind themselves... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
Not only Rome with no such splendid car
E’er gladdened Africanus, or Augustus,
But poor to it that of the Sun would be,—
That of the Sun, which swerving was burnt up
At the importunate orison of Earth,
When Jove was so mysteriously just.
Three maidens at the right wheel in a circle
Came onward danc... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
And one of them, as if by Heaven commissioned,
Singing, “Veni, sponsa, de Libano”
Shouted three times, and all the others after.
Even as the Blessed at the final summons
Shall rise up quickened each one from his cavern,
Uplifting light the reinvested flesh,
So upon that celestial chariot
A hundred ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 | |
E’en as an admiral, who on poop and prow
Comes to behold the people that are working
In other ships, and cheers them to well-doing,
Upon the left hand border of the car,
When at the sound I turned of my own name,
Which of necessity is here recorded,
I saw the Lady, who erewhile appeared
Veiled unde... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 68 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1002 |
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