Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI


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First Line: If it be true that any beauteous thing
Last Line: For who adores the maker needs must love his work.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Love


IF it be true that any beauteous thing
Raises the pure and just desire of man
From earth to God, the eternal fount of all,
Such I believe my love: for as in her
So fair, in whom I all besides forget,
I view the gentle work of her Creator,
I have no care for any other thing,
Whilst thus I love. Nor is it marvellous,
Since the effect is not of my own power,
If the soul doth, by nature tempted forth,
Enamored through the eyes,
Repose upon the eyes which it resembleth,
And through them riseth to the Primal Love,
As to its end, and honors in admiring;
For who adores the Maker needs must love his work.




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