Love

Sonnet LXIII (In Life): Dialogue Between the Poet and His Eyes

by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) 1304–1374

Translated by Sir John Harington (in Bohn, 1879) · From To Laura in Life

Love

Playne ye, myne eyes, accompanye my harte,
For, by your fault, lo, here is death at hand!
Ye brought hym first into this bitter band,
And of his harme as yett ye felt no part;
But now ye shall: Lo! here beginnes your smart.
Wett shall you be, ye shall it not withstand
With weepinge teares that shall make dymm your sight,
And mystic clowdes shall hang still in your light.
Blame but yourselves that kyndlyd have this brand,
With suche desyre to strayne that past your might;
But, since by you the hart hath caught his harme,
His flamèd heat shall sometyme make you warme.

MLA

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet LXIII (In Life): Dialogue Between the Poet and His Eyes.” Translated by Sir John Harington. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/83/.

Chicago

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). “Sonnet LXIII (In Life): Dialogue Between the Poet and His Eyes.” Translated by Sir John Harington. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/petrarch/83/.

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