Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | I. Admiration | | My Lady | | Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) |
| | From the Italian by Charles Eliot Norton
SO gentle and so gracious doth appear | |
| My lady when she giveth her salute, | |
| That every tongue becometh, trembling, mute; | |
| Nor do the eyes to look upon her dare. | |
| Although she hears her praises, she doth go | 5 |
| Benignly vested with humility; | |
| And like a thing come down she seems to be | |
| From heaven to earth, a miracle to show. | |
| So pleaseth she whoever cometh nigh, | |
| She gives the heart a sweetness through the eyes, | 10 |
| Which none can understand who doth not prove. | |
| And from her countenance there seems to move | |
| A spirit sweet and in Love’s very guise, | |
| Who to the soul, in going, sayeth: Sigh! | | | | |
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