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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: petrarch, Matches Found: 156 Petrarch Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco 156 poems available by this author A SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LAURA Poem Text First Line: I fill with sighs the air whene'er I stand Last Line: But of my grief for laura's death can tell. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LAURA (2) Poem Text First Line: Oh death! How has thy utmost malice sped! Last Line: As here thy beauty triumph'd over me. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness CANZONE: 126 First Line: Clear, fresh, and dulcet streams Subject(s): Italian Renaissance CANZONE: 128 First Line: O my own italy! Though words are vain Subject(s): Italian Renaissance CLEAR, COOL STREAMS THAT SOFTLY FLOW Poem Text Last Line: Boldly thou could'st aspire! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of ECLOGUE: 2. ARGUS First Line: Already the golden sun was looking westward and was urging on his horses Last Line: I remained alone with my sorrow on the desolate shore ELEGIAC SONNET: 13 Poem Text First Line: Oh! Place me where the burning noon Last Line: That faithful heart still burns for thee! ELEGIAC SONNET: 14 Poem Text First Line: Loose to the wind her golden tresses stream'd Last Line: The shaft extracted does not cure the wound! ELEGIAC SONNET: 15 Poem Text First Line: Where the green leaves exclude the summer beam Last Line: "but raise thine eyes to heaven -- and think I wait thee there." ELEGIAC SONNET: 16 Poem Text First Line: Ye vales and woods! Fair scenes of happier hours Last Line: But the pale ashes which her urn contains. FATHER OF HEAVEN! AFTER DAYS MISSPENT Subject(s): Faith FOR LAURA IN DEATH First Line: Life hurtles forward with a steady speed Last Line: Those eyes extinguished that were once my stars FROM THOUGHT TO THOUGHT, FROM HILL TO HILL Poem Text Last Line: Tis my spirit dwells in thee Subject(s): Love - Loss Of HE UNDERSTANDS THE GREAT CRUELTY OF DEATH Poem Text First Line: My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires Last Line: Pike in his hand. Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Laura In Death: 47 Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOW OFTEN THEN I SAID HOW WELL I CALL TO MIND I CANNOT BE AT PEACE YET NEED NOT FIGHT Poem Text Last Line: Through thee, madonna, I endure this strife! Subject(s): Perseverance I DO REPENT ME OF DEPARTED DAYS Poem Text Last Line: My hopes that in no other temple dwell Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Repentance IF CONSTANCY IN LOVE, IF A BRAVE HEART Last Line: The blame is yours, love, the loss with me IF TO THE SIGHING BREEZE OF SUMMER-HOURS Poem Text Last Line: Whose eyes but open'd, when they seemed to lose Subject(s): Grief IF YOU WERE AS LOVELY AS YOU WISH TO BE Subject(s): Italian Renaissance IN SPAIN Poem Text First Line: So feeble is the thread that doth the burden stay Last Line: If that for weight the body fail, this soul shall to her flee. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 98;canzone: 3 Subject(s): Longing; Spain IN WHAT CELESTIAL SPHERE, BY WHOM INSPIRED Poem Text Last Line: The gende music of her speech and mirth Variant Title(s): Wyatt's Complaint Upon Love To Reason, Wth Love's Answe Subject(s): Beauty IN WINTRY MIDNIGHT, O'ER A STORMY MAIN LOVE DELIVERS TO ME ITS SWEETEST THOUGHTS Last Line: What's left of my life grows brief MADRIGAL 121 First Line: Now love, see how this lady, young and fair Last Line: Avenge at last your honor and my heart Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Complaints MADRIGAL: 52 First Line: Diana, naked in the shadowy pool Last Line: I shake and shiver with a chill of love Subject(s): Italian Renaissance; Love MINE OLD DEAR ENEMY, MY FROWARD MASTER Poem Text Last Line: But longer time doth ask resolution Subject(s): Love – Complaints MY SHIP IS SAILING, FULL OF MINDLESS WOE Last Line: And I despair ever to reach the ground MY THOUGHTS GO FORTH TO THE ABIDING PLACE Poem Text Last Line: I did believe I was in paradise Subject(s): Love - Loss Of NOW SILENCE REIGNETH OVER EARTH AND SKY Poem Text Last Line: So far away doth my salvation lie! Subject(s): Grief; Love – Loss Of O EYES OF MINE, OUR SUN IS OVERCAST Poem Text Last Line: And giveth after sorrowing his mirth Subject(s): Love – Complaints O FORTUNATE FIELDS THROUGH WHICH MADONNA GOES Poem Text Last Line: That is not kindled with my passionate pains Subject(s): Beauty O VALLEY, FILLED WITH MY DESPAIRFUL WORDS Poem Text Last Line: Whilst upon earth her lovely body lies Subject(s): Grief ODE TO THE VIRGIN First Line: Fair virgin Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ON HIS MISTRESS'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: Love the ripe harvest of my toils Last Line: She lives in me, in her I died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OR CHE'L CIEL E LA TERRA E 'L VENTO TACE First Line: Calm now are heaven and earth, and the winds asleep Last Line: Si far am I from reaching the promised land RIME 269 Poem Text First Line: The pillar perished is whereto I leant Last Line: Till dreadful death do ease my doleful state? Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet: 29 Subject(s): Cromwell, Thomas (1485-1540) RIME 49 Poem Text First Line: Bicause I have the still kept fro lyes and blame Last Line: And onely my loke declareth my hert. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 25;sonnet: 16 Subject(s): Hearts; Lies; Tears RIME 57 Poem Text First Line: Ever mine hap is slack and slow in comming Last Line: That all my trust and travail is but waste. Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 30;sonnet: 21 SECRETUM, SELS. SONET 224 First Line: If a loving belief, an artless heart Last Line: Yours the sin, lady, mine the punishment Subject(s): Love SONNET Poem Text First Line: As I approach the last of all my days Last Line: "and sigh for that which matters not at all." Subject(s): Aging SONNET First Line: Luve wiled me back, promisan nocht but weel Last Line: Will say: 'gin I can read what I hae seen, %thonder gaed ane had stude richt close tae daith' Subject(s): Scottish Translations SONNET First Line: When she walks by here Last Line: The stones themselves are burning in my shadow Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) SONNET 88 USED AS TROILUS' COMPLAINT First Line: If no love is, o god, what feel I so? Last Line: For heat of cold, for cold of heat I die Variant Title(s): The Song Of Troylu Subject(s): Troy SONNET: 12 Poem Text First Line: Now while the wind and earth and heavens rest Last Line: And peace of heart and mind escapes me still. Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNET: 164 First Line: Now sky's at peach with earth, and winds disarm Last Line: I die, I'm born, a thousand times a day, %for my salvation lies so far away Subject(s): Landscape SONNET: 17 First Line: Life hurries on, a frantic refugee Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNET: 21 First Line: Through twenty-one long years love held me burning Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNET: 219 First Line: The morning songs of birds on their sad themes Last Line: He made the stars invisible, and she him Subject(s): Landscape SONNET: 3. GOOD FRIDAY 1327 First Line: It was the day the sun had overcast Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNET: 300 First Line: How envious I am of you, avaricious earth Last Line: Stands in her lovely eyes and does not call me! Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Laura In Death: 3 Subject(s): Jealousy SONNET: ON THE DEATH OF CINO DA PISTOIA Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 1 First Line: Ah me, that face, that dreamy look, the way SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 10 First Line: In the years of her age most beautiful Variant Title(s): He Wishes He Might Die And Follow Laur SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 11 First Line: Sometimes, beneath the trees' green murmurous height Subject(s): Immortality SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 11 First Line: Wail'd the sweet warbler to the lonely shade SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 17 First Line: Never a mother spoke advice so wise Subject(s): Immortality SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 2 First Line: That singular, miraculous, bright thing SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 25 First Line: Ah, had I ever thought the world would care Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 32 Poem Text First Line: What a grudge I am bearing the earth Last Line: Standing in her two eyes, and will not call me with a word. Variant Title(s): He Is Jealous Of The Heavens And The Earth Subject(s): Jealousy SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 34 First Line: In thought I traveled to the high abode Subject(s): Immortality SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 38 First Line: That sun which ran before me all the way SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 42 First Line: Zephyr returns, and scatters everywhere Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 53 First Line: Is this the nest in which my phoenix dressed Variant Title(s): Laura's Hous SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 53. THE SIGHT OF LAURA'S HOUSE First Line: Is this the nest in which my phoenix put on her feathers SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 6 First Line: O unforgiving thoughts, I pray you: peace! Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 75 First Line: The first day she passed up and down Last Line: Because I hear her praying that I should be making haste forever Variant Title(s): Laura Waits For Him In Heave SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 8. TO THE VIRGIN First Line: Virgin most lovely, who clothed with the sun Last Line: That heaven's nod be my ghost's peaceful seal SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 81 First Line: Death even cannot shadow their bright face SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 85 First Line: You'll come at last to my great feasting place SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 86 First Line: Now I go grieving for the days on earth Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 90 First Line: O lovely little bird, I watch you fly Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: GOING TO VISIT, REMEMBERS SHE IS DEAD Poem Text First Line: Oh eyes! Our sun's extinct, and at an end Last Line: And, when life's done, crowns with eternal joy. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: HE ASKS HIS HEART TO RAISE ITSELF First Line: What is it you're thinking, lonesome heart? SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: HE CEASES TO SPEAK OF HER GRACES First Line: The eyes that I would be talking of so warmly SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: HE LAMENTS FOR HER DEATH Poem Text First Line: This nightingale that does so much complain Last Line: Nothing that pleases here, can long endure. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: HE SENDS HIS RHYMES TO THE TOMB First Line: Let you go down, sorrowful rhymes, to the hard rock SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: LAURA BEING DEAD First Line: Life is flying from me, not stopping an hour, and SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: LAURA IS EVER PRESENT TO HIM First Line: If the birds are making lamentation, or the green banks SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: ONLY HE WHO MOURNS HER First Line: Ah, death, it is you that left the world cold and shady SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: PETRARCH ON LAURA'S DEATH Poem Text First Line: Hold, treacherous thoughts, that dare my rule despise Last Line: Thou art the cause of my unhappiness. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: THE FINE TIME OF THE YEAR First Line: The south wind is coming back, bringing the fine season SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 1 First Line: You who give ear to sorrow, as you scan Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 103 First Line: Fulfilled of the delight ineffable SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 104 Poem Text First Line: I find no peace and bear no arms for war Last Line: My lady, thus I am because of you. Variant Title(s): "description Of The Contrarious Passions In A Lover;love's Inconsistency;rime 134;sonnet: 17;""i Find No Peace, And All My War Is Done""; SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 104 First Line: Peace have I none, no neither peace nor war Last Line: Death and life on earth both pass me by: %this is the doctrine, lady, that you teach Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 105 First Line: Rain fire from heaven down upon thy head Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 107 First Line: Fountain of sorrow, innof cursed ire Last Line: The world must suffer or its shame define Subject(s): Freedom SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 108 First Line: Founded in chaste and humble poverty Last Line: Another constantine comes not in haste Subject(s): Constantine I (the Great) (d. 337); Silvester I. Saint. Pope SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 108 First Line: The more my own poor wishes would commend me Last Line: Between us rare and rapid intercourse Subject(s): Freedom SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 109 Poem Text First Line: The long love that in my thought doth harbor Last Line: For good is the life ending faithfully. Variant Title(s): "complaint Of A Lover Rebuked;rime 140;love The Tyrant;""love That Liveth And Reigneth In My Thought""; Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 109 Poem Text First Line: The long love that in my thought doth harbor Last Line: For good is the life ending faithfully. Variant Title(s): "complaint Of A Lover Rebuked;rime 140;love The Tyrant;""love That Liveth And Reigneth In My Thought""; Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 11 Poem Text First Line: If it be destined that my life, from thine Last Line: The boon of one too-late relenting sigh. SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 11 First Line: Lady, if grace to me so long be lent SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 113 Poem Text First Line: Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green Last Line: Comfort myself when that my hap be naught. Variant Title(s): Vow To Love Faithfully, Howsoever He Be Rewarded;love's Fidelity SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 114 First Line: Fair spirit, with all virtues fired and crowned SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 117 First Line: Like men beholding things incredible SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 118 First Line: The mist of pallor in such beauteous wise SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 126 First Line: In what devine ideal, where lofty sphere Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 131 Poem Text First Line: Alas, so all things now do hold their peace Last Line: To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. Variant Title(s): "a Complaint By Night Of The Lover Not Beloved;night;a Night Piece;""alas, So All Thinges Nowe Doe Holde Their Peace""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 132 First Line: As over the fresh grass her golden feet Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 139 First Line: Blest flowers and gald, herbs fortunately sown SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 14 First Line: The ancient graybeard shoulders on his load Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 14. HERE RULES LOVE First Line: Clear, cool, and lovely brook Last Line: You could with a brave mind %part from this wood and go among mankind SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 143 First Line: Through savage woods I walk without demur Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156 Poem Text First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port. Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 157 First Line: A white doe appeared to me over green Last Line: I fell, in the water; she vanished SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 17. DISTANCE AND SOLITUDE First Line: From hill to hill I roam, from thought to thought Last Line: There dwells my heart with her who steals it from my breast SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 172 First Line: Sweet wrath, sweet scorn, sweet reconcilement, ill SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 173 First Line: River, that from the mountain summit sped SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 18 First Line: Ashamed at times that I am silent, yet SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 188 Poem Text First Line: If amorous faith, a heart of guileless ways Last Line: Yours, lady, is the fault and mine the loss. Variant Title(s): Signs Of Love SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 198 First Line: O little room, my harbor from the sea Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 2 First Line: Determined with one sally to erase Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 28 First Line: Alone and every weary with dark care Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 54 First Line: Already I grow weary thinking how Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 6 First Line: My tameless will doth recklessly pursue Variant Title(s): Of His Foolish Passio SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 62 First Line: Father of heaven, after squandered days Last Line: Remind me how this day thou wert on the cross SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 71 First Line: Fair ladies, weep, the while love's own tears Variant Title(s): On The Death Of Cino Da Pistoi Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 79 First Line: That window where the sun at midday shows Subject(s): Italian Renaissance SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: WHEN HE FELL IN LOVE WITH LAURA Poem Text First Line: Will spurs me on, love wounds me with his dart Last Line: And tied me so, I ne'er shall freedom get. Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 12 First Line: Nowhere before then I said SONNETS TO LAURA: 144 First Line: Great is my fear when I recall to mind Last Line: Now dismal omens, dreams and black despair %crowd in on me: please god, there comes no worse Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 164 First Line: The sounds of earth, of sky, of wind, now cease Last Line: A thousand times I'm born, a thousand killed: %so far off is the health which I once knew Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 176 First Line: Deep in the wood's wild, uninviting ways Last Line: Aboreal darkness, so dispelled all care. %only my sun's not here; nor has she been Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 208 First Line: Impertuous river, which from alpine meads Last Line: As if the kisses and my words are one: %'the soul flies on, the body falls away' Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 25 First Line: Through the most arid fields my walks are planned Last Line: That love will not insist on joining me, %inseparable companion of my mind Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 3 First Line: It was the morning of that blessed day Last Line: Yet from you fully armed conceal his bow! SONNETS TO LAURA: 310 First Line: Zefirus brings fine weather back again Last Line: The actions by which lovely women please, %is wilderness, the haunt of savage beasts Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 320 First Line: I breathe remembered air, calm hills again Last Line: I burned when my own fire was blazing fast, %now I lament the embers turning grey Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 326 First Line: Back to my mind she comes, deep rooted there Last Line: On the sixty day of april, its first hour, %from the body that blest spirit stole away Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 346 First Line: Blest souls and loyal angels in their might Last Line: My thoughts and wishes fly there unconfined; %she is impatient because I am late Subject(s): Love SONNETS TO LAURA: 52 First Line: Once more, ye balmy gales, I feel you blow SONNETS TO LAURA: 61 First Line: Blest be the day, and blest the month and year Last Line: Of her, her only, of herself alone! SONNETS TO LAURA: 62 First Line: Blest be the day, and blest the month and year Last Line: Of her, her only, of herself alone! SONNETS TO LAURA: SHOWING HOW LONG HE HAD LOV'D LAURA Poem Text First Line: Pleasure in thought, in weeping ease I find Last Line: Under such hard stars first I drew my breath. Subject(s): Love THAT LOVELY PALLOR WHICH SOFT SMILES HAVE STRIVEN Poem Text Last Line: Why doth my faithful friend go forth from me? Subject(s): Togetherness; Heaven THE RESOLUTION; A SONNET Poem Text First Line: Oh time! Oh rolling heavens, that fly so fast Last Line: Virtue's no chance, but is acquir'd by skill. THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH: CHAPTER 1 Poem Text First Line: That gallant ladie, gloriouslie bright Last Line: Death faire did seeme to be in hir faire face. THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH: CHAPTER 2 Poem Text First Line: That night, which did the dreadfull happ ensue Last Line: Thou without me long time on earth shalt staie. THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH: THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE, CHASTITY, DEATH. ARGUMENT Poem Text First Line: The glorious maid, whose soule to heaven is gone Last Line: Death seem'd in her exceeding faire to be. Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH: THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE, CHASTITY, DEATH. TO READER Poem Text First Line: Reader, I have oft been told, / verses that speak not love are cold Last Line: Who had enough to serve all three. THE VISIONS OF PETRARCH [FORMERLY TRANSLATED] Poem Text First Line: Being one day at my window all alone Last Line: Yet thinke, that death shall spoyle your goodly features. THOU THAT WOULDST MARK, IN FORM OF HUMAN BIRTH Poem Text Last Line: But if thou still delay, for long regret prepare Subject(s): Carpe Diem THOUSAND TIMES MY SWEET WARRIOR Last Line: And much more for you, by how much he loves TO PUNISH IN ONE DAY First Line: To punish in one day one thousand crimes Last Line: My problems now, but now my fate is sealed TRIUMPH OF LOVE: BOOK 1, CHAPTER 1 First Line: In the tyme of the renewinge of my suspyres VERGINE BELLA CHE DI SOL VESTITA First Line: Beautiful virgin! Clothed with the sun Subject(s): Faith VISION OF THE FAWN First Line: Beneath a laurel, two fair streams between VISIONS: 2 First Line: After, at sea a tall ship did appeare Last Line: So great riches, as like cannot be found Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Shipwrecks; Storms VISIONS: 3 First Line: The heavenly branches did I see arise Last Line: For no such shadow shal be had againe Subject(s): Trees VISIONS: 4 First Line: Within this wood, out of a rocke did rise Last Line: To see such pleasures go so suddenly Subject(s): Spring VISIONS: 6 First Line: At last so faire a ladie did I spie Last Line: Tossed with stormes of fortune variable Subject(s): Love WHO WISHES TO BEHOLD |
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