Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.
Midway upon the journey of our life
That with him were, what time the Love Divine
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
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