Canto

  1     1|      sheperd or by flock.~For this earth teems, and freshening water
  2     2|        erthrown, King Sacripant on earth was flung;~The worthy sister
  3     2|           the visage of old mother earth,~Traversed a wood, and that
  4     2|            LIV~"Between the two on earth and him o' the sky,~Until
  5     3|            Chosen to minister this earth below,~You see not, Phoebus,
  6     3|       Whose name through Italy and earth shall ring.~ ~ XVII~"The
  7     3|           sage,~Shall re-create on earth the golden age.~ ~ XIX~"
  8     3|            which they shall act on earth,~Were labour not to finish
  9     3|           from heaven,~To this low earth to varying seasons given.~ ~
 10     3|            sun illumes the subject earth~More than the silver moon
 11     4|           the goal;~And execute on earth or in mid air,~All shifts
 12     4|         all his battles fought, on earth had laid:~ ~ XXVI~And ran
 13     5|          other animals who prey~On earth, or who unite in friendly
 14     7|            lance in rest,~And made earth quake beneath her as she
 15     7|         opes at will a paradise on earth.~ ~ XIV~Like milk the bosom,
 16     7|          whither sped,~He roams in earth or air; yet, hapless wight,~
 17     7|            quickens man when he in earth is laid,~Would have been
 18     7|          from age to age, to visit earth,~Sprung from thy stock,
 19     7|           fain would lie~Buried in earth, unseen of any eye.~ ~ LXVI~
 20     8|           in ocean, sky~And nether earth had left obscured in shade;~
 21     8|      quarter cries --~"Hope not on earth to enjoy the blessing more."~
 22     9|            sore;~This stretched on earth, that propped upon his hand:~
 23     9|        belly tore,~Outstretched on earth, from thence to rise no
 24     9|         rise no more.~ ~ LXXVII~To earth fall horse and rider: this
 25     9|         Let him imagine, when from earth he sprung,~Such was the
 26     9|           it, to shake its last on earth below.~ ~ LXXXI~Lo! in the
 27    10|           frosty rhine~Aurora upon earth beneath had flung;~And the
 28    10|          make him soar, or down to earth would bring,~And what, would
 29    11|           griffin-courser cast,~In earth and air accustomed to career.~
 30    11|       everwhere~The walls are upon earth in ruin spread,~Nor in the
 31    12|       having searched the shell~Of earth above, descended into hell.~ ~
 32    12|         sylvan fount,~Where lay on earth the helmet of the count.~ ~
 33    14|        wife, and maid,~And cast on earth Christ's sacrament divine,~
 34    14|          knows not if in heaven or earth he be;~Nor from his victory
 35    14|         side,~Upon that, Sloth, on earth has made her seat;~Who cannot
 36    14|            Their every statue upon earth in gold.~ ~ CI~Lamenting
 37    15|           replies:~"Know that this earth is girt about with seas,~
 38    16|            for robe of crimson hue~Earth shifts, ensanguined where
 39    16|            right shoulder smit, on earth as well.~The advancing English
 40    17|      sorely hunted makes return~To earth, to his retreat Martano
 41    17|            lightly at the shock on earth was shed,~And that, reversed,
 42    18|        with the spear,~Cast him on earth, and with the cruel brand~
 43    18|          Dardinello's eye;~He upon earth Dorchino had laid low,~Pierced
 44    18|            to do,~I to the best on earth have done in you.~ ~ LXVII~"
 45    18|           CXI~And throwing some on earth, it chanced that more~Than
 46    18|         saw with woe~Themselves on earth at one encounter laid,~Their
 47    18|           in heaven, and hell,~And earth, in many forms reveal; and
 48    18|        from heaven the stars, from earth the shade.~When good Zerbino,
 49    19|          cruel, nor deny~That I in earth my honoured king may lay:~
 50    19|          so that by me interred~In earth be those of good Almontes'
 51    19|         leave the plain~Till he in earth had seen his master laid.~
 52    19|          would foe~Arise anew from earth, to work her woe.~ ~ LXXXVIII~
 53    19|       blast the joust declare.~Lo! earth and air and sea the noise
 54    19|            A thousand cavaliers on earth had laid;~And never had
 55    20|          fire, and on their bed~Of earth to wolf and vulture leave
 56    20|                LXXXII~Not yet from earth's hard visage has the sun~
 57    20|           world seemed to tremble, earth and sky,~As he in air discharged
 58    21|             And good Hermonides on earth o'erthrew.~ ~ XI~Thinking
 59    21|         remorse,~I, if I lived, on earth must ever throw,~As the
 60    21|           L~"When now, unknown, on earth Argaeus lay,~My brother
 61    21|          survey~The man whom he on earth has lifeless laid,~And she,
 62    21|      bitter seed.~Gabrina keeps on earth her downcast eye;~For ill
 63    22|            wight~Is blinded, or on earth half lifeless lies.~Wherefore,
 64    22|         his fortilage have won.~To earth himself like fox, in his
 65    22|         alone thy foes are laid~On earth, why should I band with
 66    22|           These here, or there, to earth astonished reel;~Nor eyes
 67    22|             who, like dead men, on earth had lain,~Had risen, full
 68    23|        brought,~And buried deep in earth, the martial maid;~Nor weening
 69    23|           people's land,~Here upon earth I make too long delay."~
 70    23|          vainly would his match on earth be sought."~-- "Who tramples
 71    23|            in the open air on hard earth lay.~He marvelled at himself,
 72    24|           to bray.~Astounded, upon earth he stretched one pair,~Who
 73    24|          All people that on middle earth do dwell,~Through weakness
 74    24|         sound and horrid, trembles earth,~When the swords cross;
 75    24|           Is freed, and springs on earth: for the assay~Hence matched
 76    25|            fire,~And parts heaven, earth, and ocean in his ire.~ ~
 77    25|            XXXVI~" `Tis only I, on earth, in air, or sea,~Who suffer
 78    25|          the sun, and stirred~This earth beneath me by a simple word.'~ ~
 79    26|      Renewed, and ever single upon earth.~ ~ IV~When those three
 80    26|         cavaliers~That seldom upon earth will find their peers.~ ~
 81    26|       splendour through this ample earth."~ ~ LXV~Listening, the
 82    26|            than one good knight on earth have laid.~-- Give me,"
 83    26|         his courser bears away;~On earth the faulchion lies, which
 84    26|            like stalk, his head on earth had laid,~Had he his trusty
 85    26|      Richardet as well: but low~On earth lies Aldigier, and there
 86    27|          And shriek and shout from earth to heaven redound.~ ~ XX~
 87    27|               XXI~Advancing, he on earth saw many more,~Or rather
 88    27|       assailants smote, and low~On earth heads, arms, and severed
 89    27|    Charlemagne anew.~ ~ XXXIV~From earth beneath the widow's outcry
 90    27|           bird~The phoenix, and on earth there is but one,~So, in
 91    29|         realms above,~And leave to earth the example of thy love!~ ~
 92    29|          arms was locked again.~On earth, with shame and sorrow for
 93    30|            with such a shock,~That Earth appears to rive and Heaven
 94    30|            Astound Rogero fell, on earth reversed,~And from his head
 95    31|           above all dwellers' upon earth?~ ~ XXXI~"Me on the distant
 96    31|         you be signified:~I saw on earth his sword and armour strewed,~
 97    31|           s and Rinaldo's cry~From earth into the starry vault ascend.~
 98    31|          Stygian reign,~Or be from earth translated to the sky,~Will
 99    32|    mightiest race that ever was on earth.~ ~ XXXII~What he rehearsed,
100    32|         his judgment, fairest upon earth.~ ~ LIII~"She, as she deems
101    32|         all,~Lighting with head on earth and heels in air,~Retiring
102    33|           that has yet appeared on earth.~ ~ XXVIII~"Nereus less
103    33|        either train,~And the green earth is tinged with crimson dye.~
104    33|       strokes extends~All three on earth, and thus the warfare ends:~ ~
105    33|           with spacious wheels, on earth descended;~The king, conducted
106    33|        mountain's feet,~Deep under earth, extends a gloomy cell.~
107    34|            Into the central pit of earth descend,~And the infernal
108    34|              X~"And to be known on earth shouldst thou be fain,~Thee
109    34|            skill~And prowess, upon earth without a peer;~Who, voiced
110    34|          he aspires to heaven, nor earth esteems.~Through air so
111    34|          sleight!~What fabric upon earth with this can vie?~Let them
112    34|           to thee, if one~Tarry on earth, till I anew be sent?"~Albeit
113    34|            but in garden, clear~Of earth's foul air, will joy eternity~
114    34|        Sounding through heaven and earth, proclaim aloud~Christ's
115    34|          As what the limits of our earth contain:~Such as our earth,
116    34|         earth contain:~Such as our earth, the last of globes below,~
117    34|           strain,~If he would view Earth's circling seas and land;~
118    34| wonderfully stored~Whatever on our earth below we lose.~Collected
119    34|     thither post,~Whatever thou on earth beneath hast lost.~ ~ LXXVI~
120    35|            all, in Heaven above or Earth below,~Must correspond,
121    35|            in our clime,~As are on earth below performed by Time.~ ~
122    35|            fame,~Though Heaven and Earth were hostile, had he known~
123    35|         far as 'tis from heaven to earth; for here~I cannot hang
124    35|       Three kings she quickly upon earth had strown;~ ~ XXXII~And
125    35|          Amazed, that woman him on earth should lay.~He cannot, or
126    35|        will not speak; and lies~On earth, like one astound, in idiot
127    35|          return again,~Ere on hard earth thy bones shall battered
128    36|         deems him one unmatched on earth.~ ~  LXXX~In the beginning
129    37|          Their shame, they sate on earth, and dared not rise.~ ~
130    37|            her victorious lance on earth had laid,~How, in a town
131    37|          mourning made,~And him in earth, beside his fathers, layed.~ ~
132    37|            touched, so many lie~On earth, by Bradamant's gold lance
133    38|           puissant shou'd~Exist on earth, save he observed my rite.~
134    39|          By that fell fistycuff on earth was flung;~And, seeing they
135    39|         way~The frantic paladin on earth to lay.~ ~ LIV~He many a
136    41|             With fire and sword on earth shall Poictiers lay;~Nor
137    41|          Now Brandimart, that upon earth descried~The king Sobrine,
138    41|        left Sobrino (as I said)~On earth, and against Sericana's
139    41|       those foes,~Sobrino, that on earth long time had lain,~When
140    41|           flung;~But straight from earth that fierce old man upsprung;~ ~
141    41|            some scattered stars on earth were seen.~He drops the
142    42|         love, with eyelids bent~On earth, and visage crimsoned o'
143    42|            LVI~But scarcely was on earth extended, ere~She rose and
144    42|        heir~As mighty virtue as on earth doth reign,~Or ever yet
145    42|            of all burdens upon the earth the least.~While well-nigh
146    43|           avoided thee.~ ~ II~Some earth and sea and heaven above
147    43|       worth alone~Excels what gold earth's ample veins contain,~With
148    43|             by her say~Moved solid earth, and made the sun stand
149    43|        upon the day~We sprang from earth with scales of dragon dight,~--
150    43|           and dims its light:~Fixt earth is moved, and in a circle
151    43|         hollow~And central womb, O earth, the wretch to swallow?~ ~
152    44|        whither flit~Things lost on earth, of sound deprived his horn:~
153    44|            strong hand~The king to earth beneath his courser bare;~
154    45|           from us and shorten day,~Earth all its beauties from the
155    45|        career~Her foemen ever upon earth had laid:~Because none weened
156    45|           Raised in a thought from earth, and whirled heaven-high;~
157    46|           thither from all ends of earth repair;~All lodged conveniently,
158    46|      wandering planets' way;~These earth, these heaven for his instruction
159    46|          mighty force,~He falls on earth, pulled headlong from his
160    46|                CXXV~Yet leaps from earth as nimbly, moved by spleen~
161    46|          from him; now~Raises from earth, and on his chest suspends;~
162    46|      blaspheming loud;~Erewhile on earth so haughty and so proud.~ ~ ~[