• 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
    Of twilight, new appearances through heaven
    Peer with faint glimmer, doubtfully...

  • See the chariot at hand here of Love!
      Wherein my lady rideth!
    Each that draws is a swan, or a dove,
      And well the car Love guideth.
    As she goes, all hearts do duty
                Unto her beauty.
    And, enamored, do wish, so they might
                But enjoy such a sight,
    That they still were to run by her side
    Through swords...

  • Triumph — may be of several kinds —

    There's Triumph in the Room

    When that Old Imperator — Death —

    By Faith