Dante Alighieri

1265-1321 / Male / Italian
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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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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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La Vita NuovaIn that book / which is / My memory . . .
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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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Of Beauty and DutyTWO 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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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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SestinaI have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow, / to the short day and to the whitening hills, / when the colour is all lost from the grass,
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Sonnet: All My ThoughtsAll my thoughts always speak to me of love, / Yet have between themselves such difference / That while one bids me bow with mind and sense,
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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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Sonnet: I Muse OverAt whiles (yea oftentimes) I muse over / The quality of anguish that is mine / Through Love: then pity makes my voice to pine
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