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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DANTE, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS First Line: Always apart, while other children played Last Line: Strange, lonely child, and vision-haunted man. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) | |||
Always apart, while other children played, Wandering alone in meadow or in wood, (His comrade only some dim earth drawn shade), Troubled at night by dreams half understood. And as he grew he missed all simple joy, Laughter he knew not, though the hot tears ran; A shadow world his life as when a boy -- Strange, lonely child, and vision-haunted man. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LITTLE LANGUAGE by ROBERT DUNCAN IN HELL WITH VIRG AND DAN: CANTO 17 by CAROLYN KIZER ON A PALMETTO by SIDNEY LANIER NATIONE NON MORIBUS (1265-1321) by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS TO DANTE by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI SONNET: INSCRIPTION FOR A PORTRAIT OF DANTE by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO DANTE by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |
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