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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 43. ...what desire draws them to...

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These eyes of mine, desiring beautiful things,

And their spirits wrapped up in such fitness,

Seek no other able vitality than

To ascend to the heaven that looks after them.

From heights of the highest stars

Descends one, united splendor

To enlight what desire draws them to;

And what is rightly called by the name of love.

And so, for another of gentle heart,

Who can fall in love, and burn, you tell him

His looks are there, in the face that looks after him.

—Michelangelo,[i]

circa 1510

 

 

[i] “These eyes of mine” Michelangelo Rime, p. 10, N. 107

https://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&id=akNhAAAAcAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false

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I find Michelangelo particularly difficult to translate, although I love Italian work. The poem above is an accurate rendering although it lacks in the some of  finesse of the original, which I can do better at once I've translated more of his writings. 

I should not be surprised at the difficulty of his verse. A great Manneristic sculptor, painter and architect would naturally write challenging, Manneristic poetry :)  

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