To meet requirements of the day-6 assignment for Writing 201 on my WordPress blog, I have randomly chosen two poems from a website, ‘AllPoetry’ and have tried to come out with something different with the words available (with slight additions). Here they are:
(2) Beauty of Her Face: A sonnet
by Dante Alighieri – based on its translation given on the website.
(Sonnet)
For certain he hath seen all
perfectness
Who among other ladies hath seen
mine:
They that go with her humbly
should combine
To thank their God for such
peculiar grace.
So perfect is the beauty of her
face
That it begets in no wise any
sigh
Of envy, but draws round her a
clear line
Of love, and blessed faith, and
gentleness.
Merely the sight of her makes all
things bow:
Not she herself alone is holier
Than all; but hers, through her,
are raised above.
From all her acts such lovely
graces flow
That truly one may never think of
her
Without a passion of exceeding
love.
Here is my version:
THAT BEAUTIFUL FACE
Among ladies of blessed faith and
gentle perfectness
Her face has a peculiar grace,
wise and raised above
That all who are there looking
holier in her presence
Her humble acts, with passion, beget
all to bow behind her
For someone who combines his
thoughts on beady with grace
She is Godly holier, her face
embodying that perfectness
A flow of love, exceedingly clear
and wise, so wisely clear
That mere sight of the sight of
her draws a clear line of envy
O God, thanks, for making her
beauty so blessed and perfect
With a face that tells me she is
alone holier than all..
