Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 131, by PETRARCH Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, so all things now do hold their peace Last Line: To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco 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 | ||||||||
Alas, so all things now do hold their peace: Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing: The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease; The nightes car the stars about doth bring. Calm is the sea, the waves work less and less: So am not I, whom love, alas, doth wring, Bringing before my face the great increase Of my desires, whereat I weep and sing In joy and woe, as in a doubtful case. For my sweet thoughts sometime do pleasure bring, But, by and by, the cause of my disease Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is again To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 109 by PETRARCH |
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