...was the time that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart, Who in the mom have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly...from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day." He opens the Ninth Canto of his Purgatory with a description of the retiring night, when Aurora " Look'd...

...as she saw its white sails, gilded by the setting sun, still flapping idly in the evening breeze. " Now was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at...from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day.'* K 3 But faint were such tender remembrances compared to the feelings which filled Edith's heart as...

...one can well imagine, who is capable of feeling the sweet and, touching beauty of these lines : — " Now was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at...newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper.bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day." • Dante : Purgatorio, Canto viii....

...approach of those angelic guards. Lastly, Conrad Malaspina predicts to oar Poet his future banishment. Now was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heirt Who in the mom have bid sweet friends farewell, A rid pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills,...

...sing " Te lucis ante," with " upward gaze directed to the height supernal wheels." " Now was the time that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their...from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day." He opens the Ninth Canto of his Purgatory with a description of the retiring night, when Aurora " Look'd...

...seaward of the curfew scene, which Gray, in his famed English elegy, restricted to the land : — " Now was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at...from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day." Another snatch of Dante's poetry painte in beautiful contrast the sisters Leah and Rachel — the personages...

...d'amore Punge, se ode squilla di lontano Che paja il giorno pianger che si muore.'1 TRANSLATION. " Now was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart, Who in the morning have bid sweet friends farewell ; And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear...

...seaward of the curfew scene, which Gray, in his famed English elegy, restricted to the land :— " Now was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart, \Vho in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love, Thrills...

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...approach of those angelic guards. Lastly, -Conrad Malaspina predicts to our Poet his future banishment. Now was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heirt Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills,...