SELECTED POEMS

FROM

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

So stood this Angelo

Four hundred years ago;

So grandly still he stands
Mid lesser worlds of Art,

Colossal and apart,

Like Memnon breathing songs across the desert sands.

C. P. CRANCH.

FROM

MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI

With Translations

FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

"Ei dice cose, voi dite parole"

EDITED BY

EDNAH D. CHENEY

AUTHOR OF "GLEANINGS IN THE FIELDS OF ART"

BOSTON

LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM

Ital 7545.6

C

Copyright, 1885,

BY EDNAH D. CHENEY.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

JUL 201954

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

ΤΟ

SETH W. CHENEY,

WHO FIRST MADE ME KNOW AND LOVE THE POEMS OF MICHELANGELO AS THE EXPRESSION OF HIS OWN THOUGHT,

THIS WORK,

THE FRUIT OF THE SEED WHICH HE SOWED,

Es Reverently Dedicated.

E. D. C.