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LA VIA NUOVA: 16, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lady looks so gentle and so pure
Last Line: "saying for ever to the spirit, ""sigh!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


MY lady looks so gentle and so pure
When yielding salutation by the way,
That the tongue trembles and has nought to say,
And the eyes, which fain would see, may not endure.
And still, amid the praise she hears secure
She walks with humbleness for her array;
Seeming a creature sent from Heaven to stay
On earth, and show a miracle made sure.
She is so pleasant in the eyes of men
That through the sight the inmost heart doth gain
A sweetness which needs proof to know it by:
And from between her lips there seems to move
A soothing essence that is full of love,
Saying for ever to the spirit, "Sigh!"





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