L'aura gentil, che rasserena i poggi
Language: Italian (Italiano)
L'aura gentil, che rasserena i poggi
destando i fior' per questo ombroso bosco,
al soave suo spirto riconosco,
per cui conven che 'n pena e 'n fama poggi.
5Per ritrovar ove 'l cor lasso appoggi,
fuggo dal mi' natio dolce aere tosco;
per far lume al penser torbido et fosco,
cerco 'l mio sole et spero vederlo oggi.
Nel qual provo dolcezze tante et tali
10ch'Amor per forza a lui mi riconduce;
poi sí m'abbaglia che 'l fuggir m'è tardo.
I' chiedrei a scampar, non arme, anzi ali;
ma perir mi dà 'l ciel per questa luce,
ché da lunge mi struggo et da presso ardo.
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I know the gentle breeze that clears the...
Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)
I know the gentle breeze that clears the hills,
waking the flowers in that shadowy wood,
by its soft breath, through which my pain
and my fame must both increase together.
I flee from my sweet native Tuscan air
to find where my weary heart can rest:
I seek my sun that I hope to see today,
to light my dark and troubled thoughts.
It grants such sweetness that Love
brings me back to it with force:
till it so dazes me I’m slow to flee.
I’d ask for wings not weapons to escape:
but heaven consumes me with this light,
so I suffer at a distance, near to I burn.
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