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    AC Benus
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  • 11/19/2022
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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 80. ...the bliss that saints approve...

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The might of one fair face sublimes my love,

For it hath weaned my heart from low desires;

Nor death I need, nor purgatorial fires.

Thy beauty, antepast of joys above,

Instructs me in the bliss that saints approve;

For oh! how good, how beautiful, must be

The God that made so good a thing as thee,

So fair an image of the heavenly Dove.

Forgive me if I cannot turn away

From those sweet eyes that are my earthly heaven,

For they are guiding stars, benignly given

To tempt my footsteps to the upward way;

And if I dwell too fondly in thy sight,

I live and love in God's particular light.

Michelangelo Buonarotti, [i]

circa 1510

 

 

 

[J. E. Taylor]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[i] “The might of one fair face sublimes my love” Michelangelo, translation from J. E. Taylor Michael Angelo considered as a philosophic poet, London 1840

https://www.bartleby.com/360/2/233.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=w3cEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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5 hours ago, Parker Owens said:

That’s just stunning. And why was this not part of my required poetry reading as a freshman in high school? But now, today it would be banned in several states… 

Thanks, Parker. Your enthusiasm is contagious :) (though of course, that people are voting gung-ho for Gop book burnings, ending the constitutional rule of law, and more Jan. 6ths, is sad beyond belief. What they have done to this once, proud, free nation...) 

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