Dante Alighieri Poems

I launched her with my small remaining band
and, putting out to sea, we set the main
on that lone ship and said farewell to land.
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Then dark with dripping blood it gave a howl
and cried again: 'Our damaged branches ache!
Your pillage maims me! Can't you feel at all?
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Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente .
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LA DIVINA COMMEDIA
di Dante Alighieri
PURGATORIO
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My lady carries love within her eyes;
All that she looks on is made pleasanter;
Upon her path men turn to gaze at her;
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TWO ladies to the summit of my mind
Have clomb, to hold an argument of love.
The one has wisdom with her from above,
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Love and the gentle heart are one same thing,
Even as the wise man in his ditty saith.
Each, of itself, would be such life in death
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Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno
toglieva li animai che sono in terra
da le fatiche loro; e io sol uno
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O Intelligences moving the third heaven,
the reasons heed that from my heart come forth,
so new, it seems, that no one else should know.
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Paradiso Canto 2

O Ye, who in some pretty little boat,
Eager to listen, have been following
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