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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DREAM OF HIS LADY, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair eyes, ye mortal stars below
Last Line: What would you, if you were awake?
Subject(s): Italian Renaissance
First Line: Fair eyes, ye mortal stars below
Last Line: What would you, if you were awake?
Subject(s): Italian Renaissance
FAIR Eyes, ye mortal stars below,
Whose aspects do portend my ill!
That sleeping cannot choose but show
How wretched me you long to kill;
If thus you can such pleasure take,
What would you, if you were awake?
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