Arts & Sciences
Translation from the Italian
From The Passing Bell and Other Poems (1868)
Arts & Sciences
Night, whom you see in sleep so sweetly sound, sound,
Was by an Angel in this marble found.
Would you the proof of life within her seek?
Awake her if you doubt it, — she will speak!
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Codex Note
Lines by Giovanbatista Strozzi affixed to the famous statue of La Notte by Michelangelo in the Sacristy of San Lorenzo, Florence, translated by Monsell.
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MLA
Monsell, John S. B. “Translation from the Italian.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/monsell/316/.
Chicago
Monsell, John S. B. “Translation from the Italian.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/monsell/316/.
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