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Stiamo, Amor, a veder la gloria nostra - 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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Stiamo, Amor, a veder la gloria nostra

  • Love, let us stand our glory to behold!
  • Things beyond nature in their charm and worth!
  • Look! Beauty rains on her in showers of gold!
  • Behold the light that heaven shows to earth!
  • What art can deck with pearls and purple meet
  • That body fair whose like was never seen!
  • And how divinely tread those dainty feet
  • This shady cloister of fair hills and green!
  • Here in a thousand hues the scattered flowers
  • That spread themselves upon the tender grass
  • Which that old blackened oak shades and embowers
  • Pray that her foot may press them if she pass!
  • The stars are kindled round her, and the skies
  • Rejoice they are made clear by her bright eyes.
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