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The Eve Of Waterloo
Darkness
Prometheus
She walks in Beauty
And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair


The Glove
Phantasy - To Laura
Rapture - To Laura
The Secret


Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni
My lady carries love within her eyes
Death, always cruel
Of Beauty and Duty


To Luna
To the Distant One
The Fisherman
The Castle on the Mountain


The Raven
The Lake
Alone
A Dream Within a Dream


On His Blindness
On His Deceased Wife
To the Lady Margaret Ley
Light

Dante Alighieri - Of Beauty and Duty



Two ladies to the summit of my mind
Have clomb, to hold an argument of love.
The one has wisdom with her from above,
For every noblest virtue well designed:
The other, beauty's tempting power refined
And the high charm of perfect grace approve:
And I, as my sweet Master's will doth move,
At feet of both their favors am reclined.
Beauty and Duty in my soul keep strife,
At question if the heart such course can take
And 'twixt the two ladies hold its love complete.
The fount of gentle speech yields answer meet,
That Beauty may be loved for gladness sake,
And Duty in the lofty ends of life.