Percy Bysshe Shelley - Sonnet ("Guido, I would...") lyrics

FROM THE ITALIAN OF DANTE [Published with "Alastor", 1816; reprinted, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.] DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI: Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, and I, Led by some strong enchantment, might ascend A magic ship, whose charmed sails should fly With winds at will where'er our thoughts might wend, So that no change, nor any evil chance Should mar our joyous voyage; but it might be, That even satiety should still enhance Between our hearts their strict community: And that the bounteous wizard then would place Vanna and Bice and my gentle love, Companions of our wandering, and would grace With pa**ionate talk, wherever we might rove, Our time, and each were as content and free As I believe that thou and I should be. _5 So 1824; And 1816.