Psyche, and other poems — page 20: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This appears to be a decorative epigraph or quotation page from a book, printed on aged cream paper with visible foxing and stains. The text is an Italian verse passage, likely from Ludovico Ariosto's Elegy XII, addressing themes of love and desire—specifically how a pilgrim spirit is elevated by beautiful love, and how sweet it is to believe oneself cherished by one's beloved alone. The attribution to "Ariosto, Eleg. XII" appears at the bottom. This type of classical literary epigraph was common as a frontispiece or introductory element in Victorian-era fiction. The watermark visible indicates this is from comicbooks.com's digitization.