Love

Sonnet XXXIII (In Death): On His Return to Vaucluse After Laura's Death

by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) 1304–1374

Translated by Rev. Francis Wrangham (in Bohn, 1879) · From To Laura in Death

Love

Valley, which long hast echoed with my cries;
Stream, which my flowing tears have often fed;
Beasts, fluttering birds, and ye who in the bed
Of Cabrieres' wave display your speckled dyes;
Air, hush'd to rest and soften'd by my sighs;
Dear path, whose mazes lone and sad I tread;
Hill of delight--though now delight is fled--
To rove whose haunts Love still my foot decoys;
Well I retain your old unchanging face!
Myself how changed! in whom, for joy's light throng,
Infinite woes their constant mansion find!
Here bloom'd my bliss: and I your tracks retrace,
To mark whence upward to her heaven she sprung,
Leaving her beauteous spoil, her robe of flesh behind!

MLA

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet XXXIII (In Death): On His Return to Vaucluse After Laura's Death.” Translated by Rev. Francis Wrangham. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/300/.

Chicago

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet XXXIII (In Death): On His Return to Vaucluse After Laura's Death.” Translated by Rev. Francis Wrangham. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/300/.

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