The radiant planet, that to love invites,

Made all the orient laugh, and veil'd beneath

The Pisces' light, that in his escort came.

Purgatory

Canto I., lines 19-21.

My guide, then laying hold on me, by words

And intimations given with hand and head,

Made my bent knees and eyes submissive pay

Due reverence.

Purgatory

Canto I., lines 49-52.

Then when he knew

The pilot cried aloud, "Down, down; bend low

Thy knees; behold God's angel: fold thy hands:

Now shalt thou see true ministers indeed".

Purgatory

Canto II., lines 27-30.

(Frontispiece)

The heavenly steersmen at the prow was seen,

Visibly written Blessed in his looks.

Purgatory

Canto II., lines 42, 43.

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And I gazed upward round the stony height;

On the left hand appear'd to us a troop

Of spirits, that toward us moved their steps;

Yet moving seem'd not, they so slow approach'd.

Purgatory

Canto III., lines 56-59.

While underneath, the ground

Ask'd help of hands and feet.

Purgatory

Canto IV., lines 31, 32.

And there were some, who in the shady place

Behind the rock were standing, as a man

Through idleness might stand.

Purgatory

Canto IV., lines 100-102.

"Many," exclaim'd the bard, "are these, who throng

Around us: to petition thee, they come.

Go therefore on, and listen as thou go'st."

Purgatory

Canto V., lines 42-44.

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From my breast

Loosening the cross, that of myself I made

When overcome with pain.

Purgatory

Canto V., lines 123-125.

"Then remember me.

I once was Pia."

Purgatory

Canto V., lines 130, 131.

"Through every orb

Of that sad region," he replied, "thus far

Am I arrived."

Purgatory

Canto VII., lines 21-23.

"Salve Regina," on the grass and flowers,

Her chanting, I beheld those spirits sit,

Who not beyond the valley could be seen.

Purgatory

Canto VII., lines 82-84.

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Hearing the air cut by their verdant plumes,

The serpent fled; and, to their stations, back

The angels up return'd with equal flight.

Purgatory

Canto VIII., lines 105-107.

Now the fair consort of Tithonus old,

Arisen from her mate's beloved arms,

Look'd palely o'er the eastern cliff.

Purgatory

Canto IX., lines 1-3.

There both, I thought, the eagle and myself

Did burn; and so intense the imagined flames,

That needs my sleep was broken off.

Purgatory

Canto IX., lines 29-31.

In visage such, as past my power to bear.

Purgatory

Canto IX., line 74.

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The wretch appear'd amid all these to say:

"Grant vengeance, Sire! for, woe beshrew this heart,

My son is murder'd."

Purgatory

Canto X., lines 74-76.

With equal pace, as oxen in the yoke,

I, with that laden spirit, journey'd on,

Long as the mild instructor suffer'd me.

Purgatory

Canto XII., lines 1-3.

O fond Arachne! thee I also saw,

Half spider now, in anguish, crawling up

The unfinish'd web thou weved'st to thy bane.

Purgatory

Canto XII., lines 39-41.

E'en thus the blind and poor,

Near the confessionals, to crave an alms,

Stand, each his head upon his fellow's sunk.

Purgatory

Canto XIII., lines 55-57.

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"Who then, amongst us here aloft,

Hath brought thee, if thou weenest to return?"

Purgatory

Canto XIII., lines 129, 130.

After that I saw

A multitude, in fury burning, slay

With stones a stripling youth, and shout amain

"Destroy, destroy."

Purgatory

Canto XV., lines 103-106.

"Now who art thou, that through our smoke

dost cleave,

And speak'st of us, as thou thyself e'en yet

Dividedst time by calends?"

Purgatory

Canto XVI., lines 23-25.

"Long as 'tis lawful for me, shall my steps

Follow on thine; and since the cloudy smoke

Forbids the seeing, hearing in its stead

Shall keep us join'd."

Purgatory

Canto XVI., lines 32-35.

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But not long

Slumber'd; for suddenly a multitude,

The steep already turning from behind,

Rush'd on.

Purgatory

Canto XVIII., lines 87-90.

"What aileth thee, that still thou look'st to earth?"

Began my leader; while the angelic shape

A little over us his station took.

Purgatory

Canto XIX., lines 51-53.

"Up," he exclaim'd, "brother! upon they feet

Arise: err not: thy fellow servant I,

(Thine and all others,) of one Sovran Power.

Purgatory

Canto XIX., lines 131-133.

With wary steps and slow

We pass'd; and I attentive to the shades,

Whom piteously I heard lament and wail.

Purgatory

Canto XX., lines 17-19.

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And who

Are those twain spirits, that escort thee there?

Be it not said thou scorn'st to talk with me.

Purgatory

Canto XXIII., lines 47-49.

The shadowy forms,

That seem'd things dead and dead again, drew in

At their deep-delved orbs rare wonder of me,

Perceiving I had life.

Purgatory

Canto XXIV., lines 4-7.

At length, as undeceived, they went their way:

And we approach the tree, whom vows and tears

Sue to in vain; the mighty tree.

Purgatory

Canto XXIV., lines 112-114.

Here the rocky precipice

Hurls forth redundant flames; and from the rim

A blast up-blown, with forcible rebuff

Driveth them back, sequester'd from its bound.

Purgatory

Canto XXV., lines 107-110.

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Then from the bosom of the burning mass,

"O God of mercy!" heard I sung, and felt

No less desire to turn.

Purgatory

Canto XXV., lines 117-119.

And when I saw

Spirits along the flame proceeding, I

Between their footsteps and mine own was fain

To share by turns my view.

Purgatory

Canto XXV., lines 119-120.

A lady young and beautiful, I dream'd,

Was passing o'er a lea; and, as she came,

Methought I saw her ever and anon

Bending to cull the flowers.

Purgatory

Canto XXVII., lines 97-100.

Already had my steps,

Though slow, so far into that ancient wood

Transported me, I could not ken the place

Where I had enter'd.

Purgatory

Canto XXVIII., lines 22-25.

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Beneath a sky

So beautiful, cam four and twenty elders,

By two and two, with flower-de-luces crown'd.

Purgatory

Canto XXIX., lines 80-82.

The one so ruddy, that her form had scarce

Been known within a furnace of clear flame;

The next did look, as if the flesh and bones

Were emerald; snow new-fallen seem'd the third.

Purgatory

Canto XXIX., lines 118-121.

A virgin in my view appear'd, beneath

Green mantle, robed in hue of living flame.

Purgatory

Canto XXX., lines 32,33.

The beauteous dame, her arms expanding, clasp'd

My temples, and immerged me where 'twas fit

The waves should drench me.

Purgatory

Canto XXXI., lines 100-102.

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At her side,

As 'twere that none might bear her off, I saw

A giant stand; and ever and anon

They mingled kisses.

Purgatory

Canto XXXII., lines 148-151.

Were further space allow'd

Then, Reader! might I sing, though but in part,

That beverage, with whose sweetness I had ne'er

Been sated.

Purgatory

Canto XXXIII., lines 134-137.

Such saw I many a face,

All stretched to speak.

Paradise

Canto III., lines 14, 15.

So drew

Full more than thousand splendours towards us.

Paradise

Canto V., lines 99, 100.

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The left bank

That Rhone, when he hath mix'd with Sorga, laves,

In me its lord expected.

Paradise

Canto VIII., lines 60-62.

About us thus,

Of sempiternal roses, bending, wreathed

Those garlands twain; and to the innermost

E'en thus the external answer'd.

Paradise

Canto XII., lines 16-19.

And I beheld myself,

Sole with my lady, to more lofty bliss

Translated.

Paradise

Canto XIV., lines 77-79.

Christ

Beam'd on that cross; and pattern fails me now.

Paradise

Canto XIV., lines 96, 97.

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But so was doom'd:

Florence! on that maim'd stone which guards the bridge.

The victim, when thy peace departed, fell.

Paradise

Canto XVI., lines 143-145.

So, within the lights,

The saintly creatures flying, sang; and made

Now D, now I, now L, figur'd i' the air.

Paradise

Canto XVIII., lines 70-72.

Ye host of heaven, whose glory I survey!

O beg ye grace for those, that are, on earth,

All after ill example gone astray.

Paradise

Canto XVIII., lines 120-122.

Before my sight appear'd, with open wings,

The beauteous image; in fruition sweet,

Gladdening the thronged spirits.

Paradise

Canto XIX., lines 1-3.

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For that all those living lights,

Waxing in splendour, burst forth into songs,

Such as from memory glide and fall away.

Paradise

Canto XX., lines 10-12.

Again mine eyes were fix'd on Beatrice;

And, with mine eyes, my soul that in her looks

Found all contentment.

Paradise

Canto XXI., lines 1-3.

Down whose steps

I saw the splendours in such multitude

Descending, every light in heaven, methought,

Was shed thence.

Paradise

Canto XXI., lines 28-31.

Say, then,

Beginning, to what point thy soul aspires:

And meanwhile rest assured, that sight in thee

Is but o'erpower'd a space, not wholly quench'd.

Paradise

Canto XXVI., lines 7-10.

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Then "Glory to the Father, to the Son,

And to the Holy Spirit," rang aloud

Throughout all Paradise; that with the song

My spirit reel'd, so passing sweet the strain.

Paradise

Canto XXVII., lines 1-4.

No unlike

To iron in the furnace, every cirque,

Ebullient, shot forth scintillating fires.

Paradise

Canto XXVIII., lines 80-82.

In fashion, as a snow-white rose, lay then

Before my view the saintly multitude,

Which in his own blood Christ espoused.

Paradise

Canto XXXI., lines 1-3.

Answering not, mine eyes I raised,

And saw her, where aloof she sat, her brow

A wreath reflecting of eternal beams.

Paradise

Canto XXXI., lines 64-66.

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