Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 15, by PETRARCH Poet's Biography First Line: Where the green leaves exclude the summer beam Last Line: "but raise thine eyes to heaven -- and think I wait thee there." Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco | ||||||||
Where the green leaves exclude the summer beam, And softly bend as balmy breezes blow, And where, with liquid lapse, the lucid stream Across the fretted rock is heard to flow, Pensive I lay: when she whom earth conceals, As if still living to my eyes appears, And pitying Heaven her angel form reveals, To say -- "Unhappy Petrarch, dry your tears; Ah! why, sad lover! thus before your time, In grief and sadness should your life decay, And like a blighted flower, your manly prime In vain and hopeless sorrow fade away? Ah! yield not thus to culpable despair, But raise thine eyes to Heaven -- and think I wait thee there." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 109 by PETRARCH SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 131 by PETRARCH SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156 by PETRARCH A SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LAURA by PETRARCH A SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LAURA (2) by PETRARCH ELEGIAC SONNET: 13 by PETRARCH ELEGIAC SONNET: 14 by PETRARCH ELEGIAC SONNET: 16 by PETRARCH HE UNDERSTANDS THE GREAT CRUELTY OF DEATH by PETRARCH |
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