and tanks for that one — had somehow missed it in my reading of
Akhmatova — so it's excelelnt to come across "new" work by a poet i
thoguht I knew. -- Pierre
On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Larissa Shmailo wrote:
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>
> Pierre, I liked the poem also. Here is Anna Akhmatova on the same
> exile.
>
>
> Dante
> Il mio bel San Giovanni - Dante
> Even after death, he did not return
> To his old Florence.
> Leaving, he did not look back;
> I sing this song to him.
> The torch and the night and the last embrace
> Beyond the threshold of fate’s wild lament,
> He, from Hell, sent her a curse,
> And could not forget her even in heaven.
> But he did not pass, candle in hand,
> In his penitent’s shirt through the Florence he wanted:
> Faithless, low, and long-awaited.
>
> Trans. L. Shmailo
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> In a message dated 2/19/2007 9:04:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Fine poem, Pierre. Liked it a lot.
>
> Andrew
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>
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>>
>> This afternoon Dante
>> will be ex-
>> pelled from Florence —
>> a good thing as how could he
>> have written so well
>> on the far-away imaginary ex-
>> ile of the comically divine
>>
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