'Poeta volontieri <br />Parlerei a que' duo che' insieme vanno, <br />E pajon si al vento esser leggieri.' <br />Dell' Inferno, Canto . <br /> <br /> <br />Seer of the triple realm invisible, <br />When I behold that miserable twain, <br />By Rimini's sudden sword of justice slain, <br />Sweep through the howling hurricane of hell— <br />Light seems to me to rest upon their gloom, <br />More than upon this wretched earth above, <br />Falls on the path of many a living love, <br />Whose fate may envy their united doom. <br />There be, who wandering in this world, with heart <br />Riveted to some other heart for ever, <br />Past power of all eternity to sever, <br />The current of this life still drives apart, <br />Who, with strained eyes, and outstretched arms, and cry <br />Of bitterest longing, come each other nigh, <br />To look, to love, and to be swept asunder, <br />The breathless greeting of their agony <br />Lost in the pitiless world-storm's ceaseless thunder.<br /><br />Frances Anne Kemble<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-dante/
