Love

Sonnet CXXXII (In Life): Her Walk, Looks, Words, and Air

by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) 1304–1374

Translated by Major Macgregor (in Bohn, 1879) · From To Laura in Life

Love

As o'er the fresh grass her fair form its sweet
And graceful passage makes at evening hours,
Seems as around the newly-wakening flowers
Found virtue issue from her delicate feet.
Love, which in true hearts only has his seat,
Nor elsewhere deigns to prove his certain powers,
So warm a pleasure from her bright eyes showers,
No other bliss I ask, no better meat.
And with her soft look and light step agree
Her mild and modest, never eager air,
And sweetest words in constant union rare.
From these four sparks--nor only these we see--
Springs the great fire wherein I live and burn,
Which makes me from the sun as night-birds turn.

MLA

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet CXXXII (In Life): Her Walk, Looks, Words, and Air.” Translated by Major Macgregor. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/164/.

Chicago

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet CXXXII (In Life): Her Walk, Looks, Words, and Air.” Translated by Major Macgregor. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/164/.

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