Michelangelo Buonarroti's Poetry, by first line

• If One Chaste Love

  If one chaste love, if one divine compassion,
  If one destiny is equal for two lovers,

  14 lines
• I Feel As Lit By Fire

  I feel as lit by fire a cold countenance
  That burns me from afar and keeps itself ice-chill;

  14 lines, 9 comments
• Though Time Presses

  Though times presses and prods me on
  Each hour with greater fray

  17 lines
• To Vittoria Colonna

  WHEN the prime mover of many sighs
  Heaven took through death from out her earthly place,

  14 lines
• On The Painting Of The Sistine Chapel

  I'VE grown a goitre by dwelling in this den --
  As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy,

  20 lines
• On The Brink Of Death

  NOW hath my life across a stormy sea
  Like a frail bark reached that wide port where all

  14 lines
• Poem

  RAVISHED by all that to the eyes is fair,
  Yet hungry for the joys that truly bless,

  11 lines
• To The Supreme Being

  THE prayers I make will then be sweet indeed,
  If Thou the spirit give by which I pray:

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Doom Of Beauty

  CHOICE soul, in whom, as in a glass, we see,
  Mirrored in thy pure form and delicate,

  14 lines, 11 comments
• Joy May Kill

  TOO much good luck no less than misery
  May kill a man condemned to mortal pain,

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Love's Justification

  YES! hope may with my strong desire keep pace,
  And I be undeluded, unbetrayed:

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Dante

  WHAT should be said of him cannot be said;
  By too great splendor is his name attended;

  14 lines, 5 comments
• Xiii. to vittoria colonna.

  _BRAZEN GIFTS FOR GOLDEN._
  _Per esser manco almen._

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• Xiv. first reading.

  TO VITTORIA COLONNA.
  _THE MODEL AND THE STATUE._

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• Xiv. second reading.

  To VITTORIA COLONNA.
  _THE MODEL AND THE STATUE._

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• Xv. _the lover and the sculptor._

  _Non ha l' ottimo artista._
  

  15 lines
• Xxiv. _the doom of beauty._

  _Spirto ben nato._
  

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• Xii. to vittoria colonna.

  _A MATCHLESS COURTESY._
  _Felice spirto._

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• Xi. to giorgio vasari.

  _ON THE LIVES OF THE PAINTERS._
  _Se con lo stile._

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• Ix. _thanks for a gift._

  _Al zucchero, alla mula._
  

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• X. to gandolfo porrino.

  _ON HIS MISTRESS FAUSTINA MANCINA._
  _La nuova alta beltà._

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• Viii. to luigi del riccio,

  _AFTER THE DEATH OF CECCHINO BRACCI._
  _A pena prima._

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• Vii. _to luigi del riccio._

  _Nel dolce d' una._
  

  15 lines
• Vi. _invective against the people of pistoja._

  _I' l' ho, vostra mercè._
  

  18 lines
• Xxii. _waiting in faith._

  _Se nel volto per gli occhi_
  

  15 lines
• Xxiii. _flesh and spirit._

  _Ben posson gli occhi._
  

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• I. _on dante alighieri._

  _Dal ciel discese._
  

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• Ii. _on dante alighieri._

  _Quante dirne si de'._
  

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• Iii. _to pope julius ii._

  _Signor, se vero è._
  

  15 lines
• Iv. _on rome in the pontificate of julius ii._

  _Qua si fa elmi._
  

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