Love

Sonnet LII (In Death): He Revisits Vaucluse

by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) 1304–1374

Translated by Rev. Dr. Nott (in Bohn, 1879) · From To Laura in Death

Love

I feel the well-known gale; the hills I spy
So pleasant, whence my fair her being drew,
Which made these eyes, while Heaven was willing, shew
Wishful, and gay; now sad, and never dry.
O feeble hopes! O thoughts of vanity!
Wither'd the grass, the rills of turbid hue;
And void and cheerless is that dwelling too,
In which I live, in which I wish'd to die;
Hoping its mistress might at length afford
Some respite to my woes by plaintive sighs,
And sorrows pour'd from her once-burning eyes.
I've served a cruel and ungrateful lord:
While lived my beauteous flame, my heart be fired;
And o'er its ashes now I weep expired.

MLA

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet LII (In Death): He Revisits Vaucluse.” Translated by Rev. Dr. Nott. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/319/.

Chicago

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet LII (In Death): He Revisits Vaucluse.” Translated by Rev. Dr. Nott. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/319/.

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