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Amor et io sì pien’ di meraviglia - 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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Amor et io sì pien’ di meraviglia

  • O love! we need no further marvel seek
  • (Like one who never a strange thing hath known)
  • Gazing on her who, if she laugh or speak,
  • Is like none other than herself alone!
  • Beneath the shadow of her quiet brow
  • Shine those two faithful stars from azure sky;
  • No other light he needs his path to show,
  • Who hath resolved his love be pure and high.
  • What miracle to see her on the grass,
  • Where like a flower she sits! Or watch her press
  • Her breast on that green bush; or mark her pass
  • In the fresh springtime, in her loveliness,
  • By her own thoughts attended, chaste and fair,
  • Twining a garland for her golden hair!
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