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" When I awoke Before the dawn, amid their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold ; And if not now, why use thy tears to flow? "
The vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary - Page 132
by Dante Alighieri - 1814
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 20

Literature - 1909 - 454 pages
...amid their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold; And if not now, why use thy tears to flow? Now had they waken'd ; and the hour drew near When they were wont to bring us food ; the mind Of each...
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The Vision of Dante Alighieri, Or, Hell, Purgatory and Paradise

Dante Alighieri - 1910 - 488 pages
...amid their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold ; And if not now, why use thy tears to flow ? his grandson, Nino Visconti (see Purg. viii.) ; while the head of the Ghibellines was the Archbishop...
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Dante

Charles Hall Grandgent - 1916 - 472 pages
...amid their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold; And if not now, why use thy tears to flow? Now had they waken'd; and the hour drew near When they were wont to bring us food; the mind Of each...
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Dante

National Dante committee - 1916 - 424 pages
...amid their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold; And if not now, why use thy tears to flow? Now had they waken'd; and the hour drew near When they were wont to bring us food; the mind Of each...
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Dante

National Dante committee - 1921 - 422 pages
...their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art t him, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold ; And if not now, why use thy tears to flow? Now had they waken'd; and the hour drew near When they were wont to bring us food; the mind Of each...
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Studies in the Poetry of Italy

Frank Justus Miller - Epic poetry - 1901 - 362 pages
...amid their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold; And if not now, why use thy tears to flow? Now had they wakened; and the hour drew near When they were wont to bring us food; the mind Of each...
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The Inferno

Dante Alighieri - Fiction - 1998 - 226 pages
...amid their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold;...not now, why use thy tears to flow? 40 Now had they wakened; and the hour drew near When they were wont to bring us food; the mind Of each misgave him...
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The Monograph: A Serial Collection of Indexed Essays, Issues 1-50

English essays - 1883 - 750 pages
...amid their sleep I beard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold; And if not now. why use thy teal's to flow? Now had they waken'd ; and the hour drew near When they were wont to bring us food;...
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