Famous Discerner Poems by Famous Poets

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Paradiso (Italian)

...barca
di Pietro in alto mar per dritto segno;
 e questo fu il nostro patriarca;
per che qual segue lui, com'el comanda,
discerner puoi che buone merce carca.
 Ma 'l suo pecuglio di nova vivanda
? fatto ghiotto, s? ch'esser non puote
che per diversi salti non si spanda;
 e quanto le sue pecore remote
e vagabunde pi? da esso vanno,
pi? tornano a l'ovil di latte v?te.
 Ben son di quelle che temono 'l danno
e stringonsi al pastor; ma son s? poche,
che le cappe fornisce poco panno...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante


Sonnet LXXXVI

...15>[Pg 315]Which might, perchance, a glorious flight have shown.O Thou, discerner of the guilt I own,Giver of life immortal, King of Kings,Heal Thou the wounded heart which conscience stings:It looks for refuge only to thy throne.Thus, although life was warfare and unrest,Be death the haven of peace; and if my day...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The God And The Bayadere

...t obtain;

When obedience fills the mind,

Love will never far remain.
But sharper and sharper the maiden to prove,
The Discerner of all things below and above,
Feigns pleasure, and horror, and maddening pain.


And her painted cheeks he kisses,

And his vows her heart enthrall;

Feeling love's sharp pangs and blisses,

Soon her tears begin to fall.

At his feet she now must sink,

Not with thoughts of lust or gain,--

And her slender members shrink,

And devoid of power rema...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

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