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Canzone XVIII

...CANZONE XVIII. Qual più diversa e nova. HE COMPARES HIMSELF TO ALL THAT IS MOST STRANGE IN CREATION.  Whate'er most wild and newWas ever found in any foreign land,If viewed and valued true,Most likens me 'neath Love's...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco


Inferno (Italian)

...mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

mi ritrovai per una selva oscura

ch? la diritta via era smarrita.

 Ahi quanto a dir qual era ? cosa dura

esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte

che nel pensier rinova la paura!

 Tant'? amara che poco ? pi? morte;

ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai,

dir? de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte.

 Io non so ben ridir com'i' v'intrai,

tant'era pien di sonno a quel punto

che la verace via abbandonai.

 Ma poi ch'i' fui al pi? d'un colle giun...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno Canto 01

...ur life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.


Ahi quanto a dir qual era ? cosa dura
esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte
che nel pensier rinova la paura !

Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
that savage forest, dense and difficult,
which even in recall renews my fear:


Tant'? amara che poco ? pi? morte;
ma per trattar del ben ch'i' vi trovai,
dir? de l'altre cose ch'i' v'ho scorte .

so bitter-death is hardly more...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno Canto02

...body. 


Per?, se l'avversario d'ogne male 
cortese i fu, pensando l'alto effetto 
ch'uscir dovea di lui e 'l chi e 'l quale , 

For, if the Enemy of every evil 
was courteous to him, considering 
all he would cause and who and what he was, 


non pare indegno ad omo d'intelletto; 
ch'e' fu de l'alma Roma e di suo impero 
ne l'empireo ciel per padre eletto : 

that does not seem incomprehensible, 
since in the empyrean heaven he was chosen 
to father honored Rome and her emp...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno Canto03

...nts, 
accents of anger, words of suffering, 
and voices shrill and faint, and beating hands- 


facevano un tumulto, il qual s'aggira 
sempre in quell'aura sanza tempo tinta, 
come la rena quando turbo spira . 

all went to make a tumult that will whirl 
forever through that turbid, timeless air, 
like sand that eddies when a whirlwind swirls. 


E io ch'avea d'error la testa cinta, 
dissi: «Maestro, che ? quel ch'i' odo? 
e che gent'? che par nel duol s? vinta ?». 

And I-my...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante


Paradiso (Italian)

...'etterne rote
fissa con li occhi stava; e io in lei
le luci fissi, di l? s? rimote.
 Nel suo aspetto tal dentro mi fei,
qual si f? Glauco nel gustar de l'erba
che 'l f? consorto in mar de li altri d?i.
 Trasumanar significar per verba
non si poria; per? l'essemplo basti
a cui esperienza grazia serba.
 S'i' era sol di me quel che creasti
novellamente, amor che 'l ciel governi,

tu 'l sai, che col tuo lume mi levasti.
 Quando la rota che tu sempiterni
desiderato, a s? mi fece a...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Purgatorio (Italian)

...oco tempo a volger era.
 Sì com'io dissi, fui mandato ad esso
per lui campare; e non lì era altra via
che questa per la quale i' mi son messo.
 Mostrata ho lui tutta la gente ria;
e ora intendo mostrar quelli spirti
che purgan sé sotto la tua balìa.
 Com'io l'ho tratto, saria lungo a dirti;
de l'alto scende virtù che m'aiuta
conducerlo a vederti e a udirti.
 Or ti piaccia gradir la sua venuta:
libertà va cercando, ch'è sì cara,
come sa chi per lei vita rifiuta.
 Tu 'l sai, ch...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Sonnet 02

...II

Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome honora
L'herbosa val di Rheno, e il nobil varco,
Ben e colui d'ogni valore scarco
Qual tuo spirto gentil non innamora,
Che dolcemente mostra si di fuora
De suoi atti soavi giamai parco,
E i don', che son d'amor saette ed arco,
La onde l' alta tua virtu s'infiora.
Quando tu vaga parli, O lieta canti
Che mover possa duro alpestre legno, 
Guardi ciascun a gli occhi ed a gli orecchi
L'entrata, chi di te si truova indegno;
Gratia sola di su gl...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Sonnet 03

...III

Qual in colle aspro, al imbrunir di sera
L'avezza giovinetta pastorella
Va bagnando l'herbetta strana e bella
Che mal si spande a disusata spera
Fuor di sua natia alma primavera,
Cosi Amor meco insu la lingua snella
Desta il fior novo di strania favella,
Mentre io di te, vezzosamente altera,
Canto, dal mio buon popol non inteso
E'l bel Tamigi cangio col bel ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Sonnet CCXI

...SONNET CCXI. Qual paura ho, quando mi torna a mente. MELANCHOLY RECOLLECTIONS AND PRESAGES.  O Laura! when my tortured mindThe sad remembrance bearsOf that ill-omen'd day,When, victim to a thousand doubts and fears,...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet CCXXIII

...[Pg 225] SONNET CCXXIII. Qual donna attende a gloriosa fama. THE EYES OF LAURA ARE THE SCHOOL OF VIRTUE.  Feels any fair the glorious wish to gainOf sense, of worth, of courtesy, the praise?On those bright eyes attentive let her gazeRead more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet CLXXXIV

...agenum>[Pg 198] SONNET CLXXXIV. Onde tolse Amor l' oro e di qual vena. THE CHARMS OF HER COUNTENANCE AND VOICE.  Whence could Love take the gold, and from what vein,To form those bright twin locks? What thorn could growThose roses? And what mead that white bestowRead more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet CLXXXV

...SONNET CLXXXV. Qual mio destin, qual forza o qual inganno. THOUGH HER EYES DESTROY HIM, HE CANNOT TEAR HIMSELF AWAY.  What destiny of mine, what fraud or force,Unarm'd again conducts me to the field,Where never came I but with shame to yie...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet CXCVII

...SONNET CXCVII. Qual ventura mi fu, quando dall' uno. HE REJOICES AT PARTICIPATING IN HER SUFFERINGS.  Strange, passing strange adventure! when from oneOf the two brightest eyes which ever were,Beholding it with pain dis urb'd and dim,Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet CXXVI

...[Pg 153] SONNET CXXVI. In qual parte del cielo, in quale idea. HE EXTOLS THE BEAUTY AND VIRTUE OF LAURA.  Say from what part of heaven 'twas Nature drew,From what idea, that so perfect mouldTo form such features, bidding us behold,Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet LXX

...SONNET LXX. Deh qual pietà, qual angel fu sì presto. HIS PRAYER IS HEARD.  What angel of compassion, hovering near,Heard, and to heaven my heart grief instant bore,Whence now I feel descending as of yoreMy lady, in tha...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Sonnet LXXXIX

...SONNET LXXXIX. Sennuccio, i' vo' che sappi in qual maniera. HE RELATES TO HIS FRIEND SENNUCCIO HIS UNHAPPINESS, AND THE VARIED MOOD OF LAURA.  To thee, Sennuccio, fain would I declare,To sadden life, what wrongs, what woes I find:Still glow my wonted flames; and, though...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

Transcription Of Organ Music

...d up before me for my use
 waiting in space where I placed them, they
haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qual-
ities for me to use--my words piled up, my texts, my 
manuscripts, my loves.
 I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in
the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.
 Saw the red blossoms in the night light, sun's 
gone, they had all grown, in a moment, and were wait-
ing stopped in time for the day sun to come and give
them...
 Flowers whi...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

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