University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Edited with Preface and Notes by William M. Rossetti: Revised and Enlarged Edition
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

expand sectionI. 
PRINCIPAL POEMS
expand sectionII. 
II.—MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
expand sectionIII. 
VERSICLES AND FRAGMENTS
expand section 
FOREIGN
expand section 
JUVENILIA AND GROTESQUES
collapse section 
TRANSLATIONS
collapse section 
DANTE AND HIS CIRCLE
collapse sectionI. 
PART I Dante's Vita Nuova, etc. Poets of Dante's Circle
  
[dedication]
expand section 
THE NEW LIFE.
expand section 
[DANTE ALIGHIERI]
collapse section 
GUIDO CAVALCANTI
 I. 
I TO DANTE ALIGHIERI
 II. 
II Sonnet
 III. 
III Sonnet
 IV. 
IV Sonnet
 V. 
V Ballata
 VI. 
VI TO GUIDO ORLANDI
  
GUIDO ORLANDI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
 VII. 
VII Sonnet
 VIII. 
VIII Ballata
  
DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
 IX. 
IX TO DANTE ALIGHIERI
 X. 
X TO DANTE ALIGHIERI
 XI. 
XI TO DANTE ALIGHIERI
 XII. 
XII Sonnet
 XIII. 
XIII Sonnet
 XIV. 
XIV Ballata
 XV. 
XV Sonnet
 XVI. 
XVI Ballata
 XVII. 
XVII Sonnet
  
GUIDO ORLANDI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
  
GIANNI ALFANI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
  
BERNARDO DA BOLOGNA TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
 XVIII. 
XVIII TO BERNARDO DA BOLOGNA
  
DINO COMPAGNI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
 XIX. 
XIX TO GUIDO ORLANDI
  
GUIDO ORLANDI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI
 XX. 
XX TO DANTE ALIGHIERI
 XXI. 
XXI Ballata
 XXII. 
XXII Sonnet
 XXIII. 
XXIII TO POPE BONIFACE VIII
 XXIV. 
XXIV Ballata
 XXV. 
XXV Canzone
 XXVI. 
XXVI Canzone
 XXVII. 
XXVII Canzone
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII Canzone
  
DANTE AND HIS CIRCLE
expand section 
CINO DA PISTOIA
expand section 
DANTE DA MAIANO
expand section 
CECCO ANGIOLIERI, DA SIENA
  
GUIDO ORLANDI
expand section 
LAPO GIANNI
expand section 
DINO FRESCOBALDI
  
GIOTTO DI BONDONE
  
SIMONE DALL' ANTELLA
  
GIOVANNI QUIRINO TO DANTE ALIGHIERI
  
DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GIOVANNI QUIRINO
expand section 
APPENDIX TO PART I
expand sectionII. 
PART II POETS CHIEFLY BEFORE DANTE
expand section 
TRANSLATIONS from the GERMAN, ITALIAN, FRENCH, AND GREEK

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
next section

XIV
Ballata

Of a continual Death in Love

Though thou, indeed, hast quite forgotten ruth,
Its steadfast truth my heart abandons not;
But still its thought yields service in good part
To that hard heart in thee.
Alas! who hears believes not I am so.
Yet who can know? of very surety, none.
From Love is won a spirit, in some wise,
Which dies perpetually:
And, when at length in that strange ecstasy
The heavy sigh will start,
There rains upon my heart
A love so pure and fine,
That I say: “Lady, I am wholly thine.”
 

I may take this opportunity of mentioning that, in every case where an abrupt change of metre occurs in one of my translations, it is so also in the original poem.

previous section The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
next section