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Sonnet: He rebukes Dante for his way of Life, after the Death of Beatrice
Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1861) · From The Early Italian Poets (1861)
I come to thee by daytime constantly,
But in thy thoughts too much of baseness find:
Greatly it grieves me for thy gentle mind,
And for thy many virtues gone from thee.
It was thy wont to shun much company,
Unto all sorry concourse ill inclined:
And still thy speech of me, heartfelt and kind,
Had made me treasure up thy poetry.
But now I dare not, for thine abject life,
Make manifest that I approve thy rhymes;
Nor come I in such sort that thou may'st know.
Ah! prythee read this sonnet many times:
So shall that evil one who bred this strife
Be thrust from thy dishonour'd soul and go.
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Cavalcanti, Guido. “Sonnet: He rebukes Dante for his way of Life, after the Death of Beatrice.” Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cavalcanti/19/.
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Cavalcanti, Guido. “Sonnet: He rebukes Dante for his way of Life, after the Death of Beatrice.” Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cavalcanti/19/.
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