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First Line: Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there
Last Line: And faithful petrarch gloriously crown'd.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sonnet: Keen Fitful Gusts
Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca


KEEN, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there
Among the bushes half leafless, and dry;
The stars look very cold about the sky,
And I have many miles on foot to fare.
Yet feel I little of the cool bleak air,
Or of the dead leaves rustling drearily,
Or of those silver lamps that burn on high,
Or of the distance from home's pleasant lair:
For I am brimfull of the friendliness
That in a little cottage I have found;
Of fair-hair'd Milton's eloquent distress,
And all his love for gentle Lycid drown'd;
Of lovely Laura in her light green dress,
And faithful Petrarch gloriously crown'd.





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