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ODE TO PETRARCH - Francesco Petrarch, Some Love Songs [1915]

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Some Love Songs of Petrarch, translated and annotated with a Biographical Introduction by William Dudley Foulke (Oxford University Press, 1915).

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FOOT-NOTE REFERENCES

  1. De Sade.Mémoires pour la vie de François Pétrarque. Amsterdam, 1764. 3 vols.
  2. Foscolo.Essays on Petrarch, by Ugo Foscolo. John Murray, 1823.
  3. Sismondi.Storia delle Repubbliche Italiane, da G. C. L. Simondo de’ Sismondi. Capolago, 1844.
  4. Reeve.Petrarch, by Henry Reeve. J. B. Lippincott & Co.
  5. Koerting.Petrarca’s Leben und Werke, von Dr. Gustav Koerting. Leipzig, 1878.
  6. Piumati.La Vita e le Opere di Francesco Petrarca, da Alessandro Piumati. Turin, 1885.
  7. Mascetta.Il Canzoniere cronologicamente riordinato, da Lorenzo Mascetta. Lanciano, Rocco Carabba, 1895.
  8. Cochin.La Chronologie du Canzoniere de Pétrarque, par Henry Cochin. Paris, Bouillon, 1898.
  9. Ware.Petrarch, A Sketch of his Life and Works, by May Alden Ward. Little, Brown & Co., 1900.
10. Calthrop.Petrarch, His Life and Times, by H. C. Hollway-Calthrop. Putnams, 1907.
11. Scherillo.Il Canzoniere di Francesco Petrarca, da Michele Scherillo. Hoepli, Milan, 1908.
12. Jerrold.Francesco Petrarca, Poet and Humanist, by Maud F. Jerrold. J. M. Dent & Co., 1909.
13. Carducci.Le Rime di Francesco Petrarca, da Giosuè Carducci e Severino Ferrari. Florence, Sansoni, 1899-1912.

ODE TO PETRARCH

  • Across the centuries and in every land
  • His name is honoured still. In that long night
  • When learning’s flame was quenched, it was his hand
  • That lit the torch and brought the welcome light.
  • So says the world, and yet we treasure more
  • These songs that tell of frailties like our own—
  • The fruitless love which many a year he bore
  • That grew the brighter when its hope was gone.
  • The lays wherein his passion was enshrined
  • Outlast the ages. While from day to day
  • I read his lines, old age is left behind
  • And youth returns; these scattered locks of gray
  • Turn brown once more, and solemn wisdom dies
  • Under the witchery of my lady’s eyes.