Fire of Purification

Translated by Henry Francis Cary
Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
Purgatory: Canto XXVII.
NOW was the sun so stationed, as when first
His early radiance quivers on the heights,
Where streamed his Maker’s blood; while Libra hangs
Above Hesperian...

Poet: Dante Alighieri
Sin and Redemption

Translated by Henry Francis Cary
Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
Paradise: Canto VII.
                    WHAT I have heard,
Is plain, thou say’st: but wherefore God this way
For our redemption chose, eludes my search.
  “Brother! no eye of man...

Poet: Dante Alighieri
The Triumph of Christ

Translated by Henry Francis Cary
Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
Paradise: Canto XIV.
  AND lo! forthwith there rose up round about
A lustre, over that already there;
Of equal clearness, like the brightening up
Of the horizon. As at evening hour...

Poet: Dante Alighieri
The Saints in Glory

Translated by Henry Francis Cary
Selections from “The Divine Comedy”
Paradise: Canto XXXI.
IN fashion, as a snow-white rose, lay then
Before my view the saintly multitude,
Which is his own blood Christ espoused. Meanwhile,
That other host, that soar...

Poet: Dante Alighieri
Szerelmesek, szerelmesek

Szerelmesek, szerelmesek! Halljátok? Égi dob pereg.
A búcsuzás, az indulás nagy perce már elérkezett.
A tevehajcsár jó korán ébren volt, csak egy szót kiván,
már készen áll a karaván. Ó társaim, ébredjetek!
A készület sok hangja szól, csengőre csengő válaszol,
...

Poet: Dzsalál ad-Dín Rúmí