Caroline Bergvall
36 translations of Dante
1. Along the journey of our life half way
I found myself again in a dark wood
wherein the straight road no longer lay
(Dale, 1996)
2. At the midpoint in the journey of our life
I found myself astray in a dark wood
For the straight path had vanished.
(Creagh and Hollander, 1989)
3. HALF over the wayfaring of our life,
Since missed the right way, through a night-dark wood
Struggling, I found myself.
(Musgrave, 1893)
4. Half way along the road we have to go,
I found myself obscured in a great forest,
Bewildered, and I knew I had lost the way.
(Sisson, 1980)
5. Halfway along the journey of our life
I woke in wonder in a sunless wood
For I had wandered from the narrow way
(Zappulla, 1998)
6. HALFWAY on our life’s journey, in a wood,
From the right path I found myself astray.
(Parsons, 1893)
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7. Halfway through our trek in life
I found myself in this dark wood,
miles away from the right road.
(Ellis, 1994)
8. Half-way upon the journey of our life,
I found myself within a gloomy wood,
By reason that the path direct was lost.
(Pollock, 1854)
9. HALF-WAY upon the journey of our life
I roused to fi nd myself within a forest
In darkness, for the straight way had been lost.
(Johnson, 1915)
10. In middle of the journey of our days
I found that I was in a darksome wood
the right road was lost and vanished in the maze
(Sibbald, 1884)
11. In midway of the journey of our life
I found myself within a darkling wood,
Because the rightful pathway had been lost.
(Rossetti, 1865)
12. In our life’s journey at its midway stage
I found myself within a wood obscure
Where the right path which guided me was lost
(Johnston, 1867)
13. In the middle of the journey
of our life
I came to myself
in a dark forest
the straightforward way
misplaced.
(Schwerner, 2000)
14. In the middle of the journey of our life I came to
myself within a dark wood, for the straight road was lost
(Durling, 1996)
15. In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark
wood where the straight road was lost.
(Sinclair, 1939)
16. In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself astray in a dark wood
where the straight road had been lost sight of.
(Heaney, 1993)
17. IN the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood;
for the straight way was lost.
(Carlyle, 1844)
18. In the mid-journey of our mortal life,
I wandered far into a darksome wood,
Where the true road no longer might be seen.
(Chaplin, 1913)
19. In the midtime of life I found myself
Within a dusky wood; my way was lost.
(Shaw, 1914)
20. In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
Gone from the path direct:
(Cary, 1805)
21. Just halfway through this journey of our life
I reawoke to fi nd myself inside
a dark wood, way off -course, the right road lost
(Phillips, 1983)
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22. Midway along the highroad of our days,
I found myself within a shadowy wood,
Where the straight path was lost in tangled ways.
(Wheeler, 1911)
23. Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to fi nd myself in some dark woods,
For I had wandered off from the straight path.
(Musa, 1971)
24. Midway along the span of our life’s road
I woke to a dark wood unfathomable
Where not a vestige of the right way shewed.
(Foster, 1961)
25. Midway in our life’s journey I went astray
from the straight road & woke to fi nd myself
alone in a dark wood
(Ciardi, 1996)
26. Midway in the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, for
the straight road was lost.
(Singleton, 1970)
27. MIDWAY life’s journey I was made aware
Th at I had strayed into a dark forest,
And the right path appeared not anywhere.
(Binyon, 1933)
28. Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself
In dark woods, the right road lost.
(Pinsky, 1994)
29. Midway on the journey of our life I found myself within a darksome
wood, for the right way was lost.
(Sullivan, 1893)
30. Midway the path of life that men pursue
I found me in a darkling wood astray,
For the direct path had been lost to view
(Anderson, 1921)
31. Midway this way of life we’re bound upon,
I woke to fi nd myself in a dark wood,
Where the right road was wholly lost and gone
(Sayers, 1949)
32. MIDWAY upon the course of this our life
I found myself within a gloom-dark wood,
For I had wandered from the path direct.
(Bodey, 1938)
33. MIDWAY upon the journey of my days
I found myself within a wood so drear,
Th at the direct path nowhere met my gaze.
(Brooksbank, 1854)
34. MIDWAY upon the journey of our life,
I found me in a forest dark and deep,
For I the path direct had failed to keep.
(Wilstach, 1888)
35. Midway upon the journey of our life,
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the right road was lost.
(Vincent, 1904)
36. MIDWAY upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
(Longfellow, 1867)