All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.


Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay (ed. 1862)

Dante Alighieri Quotes

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.