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LA VITA NUOVA: 8. BROKEN THOUGHTS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The thoughts are broken in my memory
Last Line: Which look for death as for a blessed thing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante


The thoughts are broken in my memory,
Thou lovely Joy, whene'er I see thy face;
When thou art near me, Love fills up the space,
Often repeating, "If death irk thee, fly."
My face shows my heart's colour, verily,
Which, fainting, seeks for any leaning-place;
Till, in the drunken terror of disgrace,
The very stones seem to be shrieking, "Die!"
It were a grievous sin, if one should not
Strive then to comfort my bewildered mind
(Though merely with a simple pitying)
For the great anguish which thy scorn has wrought
In the dead sight o' the eyes grown nearly blind,
Which look for death as for a blessed thing.





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