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Pommi ove ’l sole occide i fiori e l’erba - 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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Pommi ove ’l sole occide i fiori e l’erba

  • Put me where all things wither in the sun,
  • Or where his beams grow faint ’mid ice and snow,
  • Or where through temperate climes his car doth run,
  • Or where the morn doth break or evening glow;
  • Clothe me in purple fortune or in grey,
  • Let skies be dark and dull, or airs serene,
  • Let it be night, or long or short the day,
  • Or ripening years or adolescence green;
  • Put me in heaven, on earth or down in hell,
  • On lofty mountain or in vale or moor,
  • As spirit freed or still in mortal shell,
  • With fame illustrious or with name obscure;
  • Through lustrums three I cherish, sigh, adore,
  • And so will I continue evermore.
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1342.

Many are the sonnets which, at various times, Petrarch devotes to the praise of the charms and perfections of his mistress. Witness the following: