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Or vedi, Amor, che giovenetta donna - 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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Or vedi, Amor, che giovenetta donna

  • Look, God of Love! a woman young and fair
  • Thy reign despises, pitying not my woes!
  • Secure she deems herself between such foes!
  • Thou’rt armed, but she in gown, with waving hair
  • Sits amid flowers and grass, her dainty feet
  • Disrobing, and her heart with pride replete.
  • Captive am I, but if thine arrow fleet
  • May yet avenge the shame we both do know,
  • And serve the ends of mercy, bend thy bow!
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In similar vein he reproaches her with too strong an affection for her mirror, which he calls his rival.