In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell…
INFERNO • PURGATORIO • PARADISO
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell…
Now was the day departing, and the air, Imbrown’d with shadows, from their toils releas’d All animals on earth; and I alone Prepar’d myself the…
“Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice…
Broke the deep slumber in my brain a crash Of heavy thunder, that I shook myself, As one by main force rous’d. Risen upright, My…
From the first circle I descended thus Down to the second, which, a lesser space Embracing, so much more of grief contains Provoking bitter moans.…
My sense reviving, that erewhile had droop’d With pity for the kindred shades, whence grief O’ercame me wholly, straight around I see New torments, new…
“Ah me! O Satan! Satan!” loud exclaim’d Plutus, in accent hoarse of wild alarm: And the kind sage, whom no event surpris’d, To comfort me…
My theme pursuing, I relate that ere We reach’d the lofty turret’s base, our eyes Its height ascended, where two cressets hung We mark’d, and…
The hue, which coward dread on my pale cheeks Imprinted, when I saw my guide turn back, Chas’d that from his which newly they had…
Now by a secret pathway we proceed, Between the walls, that hem the region round, And the tormented souls: my master first, I close behind…