Dante Alighieri

1265-1321 / Male / Italian
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There is a Gentle ThoughtThere is a gentle thought that often springs / to life in me, because it speaks of you. / Its reasoning about love’s so sweet and true,
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Sonnet: Love and the GentleLove 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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La Vita NuovaIn that book / which is / My memory . . .
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Autumn SongKnow'st thou not at the fall of the leaf / How the heart feels a languid grief / Laid on it for a covering,
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Sonnet: Beauty Of Her FaceFor certain he hath seen all perfectness / Who among other ladies hath seen mine: / They that go with her humbly should combine
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Love and the Gentle HeartLove and the gentle heart are one thing, / just as the poet says in his verse, / each from the other one as well divorced
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Sonnet: My LadyMy 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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Inferno: Canto I (English)Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
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Ulysses' Last VoyageI 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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O Intelligence Moving The Third HeavenO 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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