Thus Issuing We Again Beheld the Stars

"When she had ended, her bright beaming eyes
Tearful she turn'd aside; whereat I felt
Redoubled zeal to serve thee. As she will'd,

Thus am I come: I sav'd thee from the beast,
Who thy near way across the goodly mount
Prevented."

(Hell, canto II)

"Ah me! how full
Of noble anger seem'd he! To the gate
He came, and with his wand touch'd it, whereat
Open without impediment it flew."

(Hell, canto IX)

"And I, when he to me outstretch'd his arm,
Intently fix'd my ken on his parch'd looks,
That although smirch'd with fire, they hinder'd not

But I remember'd him; and towards his face
My hand inclining, answer'd: 'Sir! Brunetto!
And art thou here?' "

(Hell, canto XV)

"Hearing the air cut by their verdant plumes.
The serpent fled; and to their stations back
The angels up return'd with equal flight.

The Spirit (who to Nino, when he call'd,
Had come), from viewing me with fixed ken,
Through all that conflict, loosen'd not his sight."

(Purgatory, canto VIII)

"We had reach'd
The summit, and were fix'd like to a bark
Arriv'd at land."

(Purgatory, canto XVII)

"A month and little more by proof I learnt,
With what a weight that robe of sov'reignty
Upon his shoulder rests, who from the mire

Would guard it: that each other fardel seems
But feathers in the balance. Late, alas!
Was my conversion: but when I became
Rome's pastor, I discern'd at once the dream
And cozenage of life."

(Purgatory, canto XIX)

"The increate perpetual thirst, that draws
Toward the realm of God's own form, bore us
Swift almost as the heaven ye behold."

(Paradise, canto II)

"And thus it answer'd: 'A short date below
The world possess'd me. Had the time been more,
Much evil, that will come, had never chanc'd.

My gladness hides thee from me, which doth shine
Around, and shroud me, as an animal
In its own silk enswath'd'."

(Paradise, canto VIII)

"Here shalt thou look on either mighty host
Of Paradise; and one in that array,
Which in the final judgment thou shalt see."

(Paradise, canto XXX)