"I am not strong enough to gaze at the light of that lady, and do not know how to make a screen from shadowy places, or the late hour: yet, with weeping and infirm eyes, my fate leads me to look on her: and well I know I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me..."
"Let me gaze on you, when my last hour has come, hold you, as I die, in my failing grasp. You’ll weep for me, laid on my pyre, Delia, and grant me kisses mixed with your sad tears. You’ll weep: your mind’s not bound with cold steel, nor is there flint within your tender heart..."
"...was the first, to my cost, to trap me with her eyes: I was untouched by love before then. Amor it was who lowered my gaze of endless disdain, and, feet planted, bowed my head, till he taught me, recklessly, to scorn pure girls and live without sense, and this madness has not left me for one whole year now, though I do attract divine hostility..."
"No longer doubt! Descending from the sky,
ReplyDeleteShe lifts thee in her arms to realms on high..."
Great magazine !
ReplyDelete"I am not strong enough to gaze at the light
of that lady, and do not know how to make a screen
from shadowy places, or the late hour:
yet, with weeping and infirm eyes, my fate
leads me to look on her: and well I know
I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me..."
Adriana in legendary Numero magazine !
ReplyDelete"Let me gaze on you, when my last hour has come,
hold you, as I die, in my failing grasp.
You’ll weep for me, laid on my pyre, Delia,
and grant me kisses mixed with your sad tears.
You’ll weep: your mind’s not bound with cold steel,
nor is there flint within your tender heart..."
Wonderful Adriana...
ReplyDelete"...was the first, to my cost, to trap me with her eyes: I was untouched by love before then. Amor it was who lowered my gaze of endless disdain, and, feet planted, bowed my head, till he taught me, recklessly, to scorn pure girls and live without sense, and this madness has not left me for one whole year now, though I do attract divine hostility..."