Dante And Virgil

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Title:     Dante And Virgil
Author: Henry Kendall [More Titles by Kendall]

When lost Francesca sobbed her broken tale
Of love and sin and boundless agony,
While that wan spirit by her side did wail
And bite his lips for utter misery--
The grief which could not speak, nor hear, nor see--
So tender grew the superhuman face
Of one who listened, that a mighty trace
Of superhuman woe gave way, and pale
The sudden light up-struggled to its place;
While all his limbs began to faint and fail
With such excess of pity. But, behind,
The Roman Virgil stood--the calm, the wise--
With not a shadow in his regal eyes,
A stately type of all his stately kind.

[The end]
Henry Kendall's poem: Dante And Virgil

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