Love
Sonnet LXI (In Life): Unless Laura Relent, He is Resolved to Abandon Her
Translated by Sir Thomas Wyatt (in Bohn, 1879) · From To Laura in Life
Yet was I never of your love aggrieved,
Nor never shall while that my life doth last:
But of hating myself, that date is past;
And tears continual sore have me wearied:
I will not yet in my grave be buried;
Nor on my tomb your name have fixèd fast,
As cruel cause, that did the spirit soon haste
From the unhappy bones, by great sighs stirr'd.
Then if a heart of amorous faith and will
Content your mind withouten doing grief;
Please it you so to this to do relief:
If otherwise you seek for to fulfil
Your wrath, you err, and shall not as you ween;
And you yourself the cause thereof have been.
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MLA
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet LXI (In Life): Unless Laura Relent, He is Resolved to Abandon Her.” Translated by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/81/.
Chicago
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet LXI (In Life): Unless Laura Relent, He is Resolved to Abandon Her.” Translated by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/81/.
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