Alla Sua Amica
[Translated from Marino]
Lady, to Death we're doom'd, our crime the same!
Thou, that in me thou kindledst such fierce Heat;
I, that my Heart did of a Sun so sweet
The Rays concenter to so hot a flame.
I, fascinated by an Adder's Eye,
Deaf as an Adder thou to all my Pain;
Thou obstinate in Scorn, in Passion I —
I lov'd too much, too much didst thou disdain.
Hear then our doom in Hell as just as stern,
Our sentence equal as our crimes conspire
Who living basked at Beauty's earthly Fire
In living flames eternal there must burn/ —
Hell for us both fit places too supplies —
In my Heart thou wilt burn, I roast before thine Eyes —
[September 1808. From MS]
Lady, to Death we're doom'd, our crime the same!
Thou, that in me thou kindledst such fierce Heat;
I, that my Heart did of a Sun so sweet
The Rays concenter to so hot a flame.
I, fascinated by an Adder's Eye,
Deaf as an Adder thou to all my Pain;
Thou obstinate in Scorn, in Passion I —
I lov'd too much, too much didst thou disdain.
Hear then our doom in Hell as just as stern,
Our sentence equal as our crimes conspire
Who living basked at Beauty's earthly Fire
In living flames eternal there must burn/ —
Hell for us both fit places too supplies —
In my Heart thou wilt burn, I roast before thine Eyes —
[September 1808. From MS]
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