Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET (A RAPTURE CONCERNING HIS LADY), by GUIDO CAVALCANTI Poet's Biography First Line: Who is she coming, whom all gaze upon Last Line: That we should ever know her perfectly. Variant Title(s): Sonnet. A Rapture Concerning His Lady | ||||||||
WHO is she coming, whom all gaze upon, Who makes the air all tremulous with light, And at whose side is Love himself? that none Dare speak, but each man's sighs are infinite. Ah me! how she looks round from left to right, Let Love discourse: I may not speak thereon. Lady she seems of such high benison As makes all others graceless in men's right. The honour which is hers cannot be said; To whom are subject all things virtuous, While all things beauteous own her deity. Ne'er was the mind of man so nobly led, Nor yet was such redemption granted us That we should ever know her perfectly. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLATA: 5 by GUIDO CAVALCANTI BALLATA: 7. HE REVEALS HIS INCREASING LOVE FOR MANDETTA by GUIDO CAVALCANTI BALLATA: IN EXILE AT SARZANA by GUIDO CAVALCANTI SONNET: OF AN ILL-FAVORED LADY by GUIDO CAVALCANTI SONNET: TO HIS LADY JOAN, OF FLORENCE by GUIDO CAVALCANTI BATTLEDORE AND SHUTTLECOCK by AMY LOWELL JANUARY by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE MASK by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY by ABRAHAM COWLEY SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 90 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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