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Normale Version: Longfellow: Divina Comedia 4
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dantes Divina Comedia IV.

Gerade habe ich bei YouTube eine schöne Sonettvertonung gefunden.
Und zwar das 4. Sonett von Longfellow zu Dantes Göttlicher Komödie.
Bei YouTube wird es mit Inferno betitelt, aber es könnte auch schon im Paradies sein:

Longfellow reads Longfellow: Dantes Inferno IV

IV

With snow-white veil and garments as of flame,
She stands before thee, who so long ago
Filled thy young heart with passion and the woe
From which thy song and all its splendors came;
And while with stern rebuke she speaks thy name,
The ice about thy heart melts as the snow
On mountain heights, and in swift overflow
Comes gushing from thy lips in sobs of shame.
Thou makest full confession; and a gleam,
As of the dawn on some dark forest cast,
Seems on thy lifted forehead to increase;
Lethe and Eunoc--the remembered dream
And the forgotten sorrow--bring at last
That perfect pardon which is perfect peace.