Petrarch : The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems

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samedi 11 février 2006 [n° 1045]

THE SONNETS, TRIUMPHS,
AND OTHER POEMS
OF
PETRARCH. 1
Now first completely translated into english verse by various hands with a life of the poet
BY THOMAS CAMPBELL.

Illustrated with sixteen engravings on steel.

London : George Bell and sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1879.

[Reprinted from Stereotype plates.]

Produced by Ted Garvin, Taavi Kalju and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team
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SONNET CCLXV

Aspro core e selvaggio, e cruda voglia

Aspro core e selvaggio e cruda voglia
in dolce, umìle, angelica figura,
se l’impreso rigor gran tempo dura,
avran di me poco onorata spoglia;
ché quando nasce o mor fior, erba e foglia,
quando è ’l dí chiaro, e quando è notte oscura,
piango ad ogni or.Ben ho di mia ventura,
di madonna, e d’Amore, onde mi doglia.
Vivo sol di speranza, rimembrando
che poco umor già per continua prova
consumar vidi marmi e pietre salde.
Non è sí duro cor che lagrimando,
pregando, amando, talor non si smova,
né sí freddo voler che non si scalde.

Francesco Petrarca CANZONIERE

Biblioteca dei Classici Italiani di Giuseppe Bonghi

HOPE ALONE SUPPORTS HIM IN HIS MISERY

Hard heart and cold, a stern will past belief,
In angel form of gentle sweet allure;
If thus her practised rigour long endure,
O’er me her triumph will be poor and brief.
For when or spring, or die, flower, herb, and leaf.
When day is brightest, night when most obscure,
Alway I weep. Great cause from Fortune sure,
From Love and Laura have I for my grief.
I live in hope alone, remembering still
How by long fall of small drops I have seen
Marble and solid stone that worn have been.
No heart there is so hard, so cold no will,
By true tears, fervent prayers, and faithful love
That will not deign at length to melt and move.

Macgregor.
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Petrarch:The Canzoniere translated by: A.S.Kline
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