English poem
The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Prophecy Of Judgment. No. 3. The Golden Age.
by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564)
Se fu nel mondo. If men were happy in that age of gold, We yet may hope to see mild Saturn's reign; For all things that were buried live again, By time's revolving cycle forward rolled. Yet this the fox, the wolf, the crow, made bold By fraud and perfidy, deny—in vain: For God that rules, the signs in heaven, the train Of prophets, and all hearts this faith uphold. If thine and mine were banished in good sooth From honour, pleasure, and utility, The world would turn, I ween, to Paradise; Blind love to modest love with open eyes; Cunning and ignorance to living truth; And foul oppression to fraternity.
More by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
- The Silkworm.
- The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Parable Of Wise Men And The World.
- The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Prophecy Of Judgment. No. 1. The Reign Of Antichrist.
- The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Prophecy Of Judgment. No. 2. The Doom Of The Impious.
- The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Sonnet On Caucasus.
- The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Writer Of Eclogues. To Annibale Caraccioli,
- The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - Against Hypocrites.
- The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - An Exhortation To Mankind.