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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 15, by PETRARCH Poet's Biography First Line: Where the green leaves exclude the summer beam Last Line: "but raise thine eyes to heaven -- and think I wait thee there." Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco | |||
Where the green leaves exclude the summer beam, And softly bend as balmy breezes blow, And where, with liquid lapse, the lucid stream Across the fretted rock is heard to flow, Pensive I lay: when she whom earth conceals, As if still living to my eyes appears, And pitying Heaven her angel form reveals, To say -- "Unhappy Petrarch, dry your tears; Ah! why, sad lover! thus before your time, In grief and sadness should your life decay, And like a blighted flower, your manly prime In vain and hopeless sorrow fade away? Ah! yield not thus to culpable despair, But raise thine eyes to Heaven -- and think I wait thee there." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 109 by PETRARCH SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 131 by PETRARCH SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156 by PETRARCH CLEAR, COOL STREAMS THAT SOFTLY FLOW by PETRARCH FROM THOUGHT TO THOUGHT, FROM HILL TO HILL by PETRARCH I CANNOT BE AT PEACE YET NEED NOT FIGHT by PETRARCH I DO REPENT ME OF DEPARTED DAYS by PETRARCH IN WHAT CELESTIAL SPHERE, BY WHOM INSPIRED by PETRARCH MINE OLD DEAR ENEMY, MY FROWARD MASTER by PETRARCH MY THOUGHTS GO FORTH TO THE ABIDING PLACE by PETRARCH |
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