Un Inferno angoscioso e'la mia vita
A hell of torment is this life of mine
My sighs are as the Furies breathing flame,
Desires around my heart like serpents twine
A bold fierce throng, no skill nor art may tame;
As the lost race to whom hope never came
So am I now — for me all hope is o'er —
My tears are Styx — and my complaints and shame
The fires of Phlegethon but stir the more.
My voice is that of Cereberus, whose bark
Fills the abyss and echoes frightfully
Over the stream, dull as my mind and dark:
In this alone, less hard my fate may be,
That there poor ghosts are of foul fiends the mark
While here an earthly goddess tortures me!
My sighs are as the Furies breathing flame,
Desires around my heart like serpents twine
A bold fierce throng, no skill nor art may tame;
As the lost race to whom hope never came
So am I now — for me all hope is o'er —
My tears are Styx — and my complaints and shame
The fires of Phlegethon but stir the more.
My voice is that of Cereberus, whose bark
Fills the abyss and echoes frightfully
Over the stream, dull as my mind and dark:
In this alone, less hard my fate may be,
That there poor ghosts are of foul fiends the mark
While here an earthly goddess tortures me!
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