On the Death of Madonna Laura

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On the Death of Madonna Laura
Petrarch
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I could not rise her lark-like way : And then she went where none might follow her. Thinking on which, my soul doth grieve and swoon.
Oh, lofty lovely windows, eyes like day.
Where Death, whose wing blights all things with its whir, Forced ways into that glorious house, too soon !
84 Sonnet LXII.
3 -^ ^ Sometimes, near the remotest of my dreams, I come on her whose kingdom is my brain : She has gone back to that first day again, That long dead Spring around her breathes and teems : Bright from
...its highest height my birth-star gleams, And all the glories of the heavens rain Upon her, till I cry out in my pain : " Your voice ! Your voice ! " Oh, passing sweet it seems To hear her speak ; but sometimes mute as Fate She stands, until my pulses run and knock. Until a voice says : " Do your senses fail ? You know in thirteen hundred and forty-eight.
On April sixth, when Prime was on the clock, That blessed spirit doffed its lovely veil. " Sonnet LXIII.
This our fair treasure, lighter than the wind, Enduring as a shadow doth endure, Which we call Beauty, never came, be sure Before this age unveiled to mankind : All in one body it did throb, unwind Its glories only there, its mighty lure ; And I, who saw, was stricken beyond cure.


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