Bear it in mind, if she should speak of it.” The moon, belated almost unto midnight, Now made the stars appear to us more rare, — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 18

If Providence divine were not triumphant. Now that which was behind thee is before thee; But that thou know that I with thee am pleased, With a corollary will I mantle thee. Evermore nature, if it fortune find Discordant to it, like each other seed — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 8

And smacks still of the mountain and the granite, Will make itself, for thy good deeds, thy foe; And it is right; for among crabbed sorbs — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 15

With voice angelical, in her own language: ‘O spirit courteous of Mantua, Of whom the fame still in the world endures, And shall endure, long-lasting as the world; A friend of mine, and not the friend of fortune, Upon the desert slope is so impeded Upon his way, that he has turned through terror, And may, I fear, already be so lost, — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 2

And I: “If every spirit who awaits The verge of life before that he repent, Remains below there and ascends not hither, — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 11

My pleasure not to hear, and to be mute. And as a pilgrim who delighteth him In gazing round the temple of his vow, — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 31

I had while living much of what I wished, And now, alas! a drop of water crave. The rivulets, that from the verdant hills Of Cassentin descend down into Arno, Making their channels to be cold and moist, Ever before me stand, and not in vain; For far more doth their image dry me up Than the disease which strips my face of flesh. — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 30

But Orient, if he properly would speak. He was not yet far distant from his rising Before he had begun to make the earth — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 11

Tisiphone is between;” and then was silent. Each one her breast was rending with her nails; They beat them with their palms, and cried so loud, That I for dread pressed close unto the Poet. “Medusa come, so we to stone will change him!” All shouted looking down; “in evil hour Avenged we not on Theseus his assault!” “Turn thyself round, and keep thine eyes close shut, — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 9

That going up shall be to thee as easy As going down the current in a boat, Then at this pathway’s ending thou wilt be; There to repose thy panting breath expect; No more I answer; and this I know for true.” And as he finished uttering these words, A voice close by us sounded: “Peradventure — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 4

Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” These words in sombre colour I beheld Written upon the summit of a gate; Whence I: “Their sense is, Master, hard to me!” And he to me, as one experienced: “Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, All cowardice must needs be here extinct. — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 3

From him already we departed were, And made endeavour to o’ercome the road As much as was permitted to our power, When I perceived, like something that is falling, The mountain tremble, whence a chill seized on me, As seizes him who to his death is going. — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 20

By ones and twos and threes, and the others stand Timidly, holding down their eyes and nostrils, And what the foremost does the others do, — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 3

And he to me: “Across the turbid waves What is expected thou canst now discern, If reek of the morass conceal it not.” Cord never shot an arrow from itself That sped away athwart the air so swift, As I beheld a very little boat Come o’er the water tow’rds us at that moment, Under the guidance of a single pilot, Who shouted, “Now art thou arrived, fell soul?” — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 8

It made reply to me: “Even as I loved thee In mortal body, so I love thee free; Therefore I stop; but wherefore goest thou?” — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 2

With less disdain, than when is set aside The Holy Writ, or when it is distorted. They think not there how much of blood it costs — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 29

Then with mine eyes ashamed and downward cast, Fearing my words might irksome be to him, From speech refrained I till we reached the river. — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 3

Whence he provided with his phalanxes To trample down the soil, because the vapour Better extinguished was while it was single; Thus was descending the eternal heat, Whereby the sand was set on fire, like tinder Beneath the steel, for doubling of the dole. — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 14

All motion, for my limbs that heavy are, I have an arm unfettered for such need.” Whereat he answer made: “When thou didst go Unto the fire, thou hadst it not so ready: But hadst it so and more when thou wast coining.” The dropsical: “Thou sayest true in that; But thou wast not so true a witness there, Where thou wast questioned of the truth at Troy.” — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 30

To do for thee what thou’lt not do for me; But since God willeth that in thee shine forth Such grace of his, I’ll not be chary with thee; Know, then, that I Guido del Duca am. My blood was so with envy set on fire, That if I had beheld a man make merry, Thou wouldst have seen me sprinkled o’er with pallor. — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 14