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Nova angeletta sovra l’ale accorta - 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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Nova angeletta sovra l’ale accorta

  • A wondrous little angel, wise of wing,
  • Flew down from heaven upon the river side
  • Where I by chance alone was loitering.
  • When me thus all unguarded she espied,
  • And naught suspecting, snares of silken thread
  • She wove among the tender grass and spread
  • Where it grew thick and made the pathway green.
  • Thus was I caught, but feel no shame nor dread,
  • So sweet a light in her soft eyes was seen.
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