Thanks are due to the following copyright holders for permission to reprint material used in this anthology:
The Anvil Press Poetry for Nicholas Kilmer’s translation from Songs and Sonnets from Laura’s Lifetime (1980), by permission of the author; Appleton-Century-Crofts for Thomas Bergin’s translations from Petrarch: Selected Sonnets, Odes, Letters (1966); Gerald Duckworth & Co. for Graham Hough’s translation from Legends and Pastorals (1961); Faber for Ezra Pound’s ‘Silet’ from Collected Shorter Poems (1952); Heinemann for Agnes Tobin’s translations from On the Death of Madonna Laura by Francesco Petrarca, Rendered into English (1906); Indiana University Press for Morris Bishop’s translations from Petrarch and His World (1963) and Mark Musa’s translations from Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or, Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (1996); Longman, Green and Co. for Joseph Auslander’s translations from The Sonnets of Petrarch (1931); New York State University at Binghamton Press for James Wyatt Cook’s translations from Petrarch’s Songbook Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta: A Verse Translation (1995); Ohio State University Press for Ruth Hughey’s edition of The Arundel Harington Manuscript of Tudor Poetry (1960), by permission of Professor Hughey’s estate; Penguin Books Ltd for Geoffrey Hill’s translation from The Triumph of Love (1999) and Anthony Mortimer’s translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere: Selected Poems (2002) by permission of the translators; University of Arkansas Press for Marion Shore’s translations from For Love of Laura: Poetry of Petrarch (1987), by permission of the author; and L. Raley for Helen Lee Peabody’s translations from Madrigals and Odes from Petrarch (1940).
Marcia Karp’s sonnet ‘The Lover Resorts to Commerce’ and Jill McDonough’s ‘Sonnet after Wyatt after Petrarch’ are published here for the first time by permission of the authors.
Every effort has been made to trace or contact all copyright holders. The publishers will be glad to make good any omissions brought to their attention.
Princeton, 19 July 2004
INDEX OF TITLES AND FIRST LINES
A Complaint by night of the louer not beloued 88
A gentle tame deer am I, called a Hart 146
A Glorious Angel coming on the Wing 165
A Handful of Pleasant Delights 129
A lady brighter far than is the sun 223
A Prayer to the Wind 154
A Sestina, in Imitation of Sig. Fra. Petrarca 167
A Sonnet. Of Love 165
A Sonnet, of Petrarc, going to visit M. Laura 169
A Vision Vpon This Conceipt of the Faery Queene 125
A youthful lady under a green laurel 257
Absence 159
After at Sea a tall Ship dyd appere 122
After that death had triumphed in that face 46
Against his tong that failed to vtter his sutes 94
AH, happiest spot of earth! in this sweet place 216
Alas so all thinges nowe doe holde their peace 88
Alas, the lovely face, the sweet regard 279
Alexis here shee stay’d; among these Pines 151
All my green years and golden prime of man 202
Alone in thought, through the deserted fields 276
Amazed to see, nought vnder heavens cope 69
An Ode of Petrarch, to the Fountain of Valchiusa 178
And now closed in the last hour’s narrow span 43
Apollo, should the fair desire still last 275
Arcadia 290
Ashamed sometimes, my lady, that I still 287
At last so faire a Ladie did I spie 124
Avisyng the bright beames of those fayre eyes 96
Beautiful Virgin! clothed with the sun 208
Because I still kept thee fro lyes, and blame 94
Because life is so short 266
Because she bore Love’s mark, a Wanderer 241
Behold, Loue, thy power how she dispiseth 101
Being one day at my window all alone 122
Beneath a Myrtle shade 163
Blest be the day, and blest the month, the year 191
Blest laurel! fadeless and triumphant tree! 203
Bohn’s Illustrated Library 213
Canticus Troili 81
CEASELESS I think, and in each wasting thought 204
Cesar, when that the traytour of Egypt 93
Charging of his loue as vnpiteous and louing other 105
Charles’ successor who now adorns his head 252
Clear, fresh and dulcet streams 218
Complaint of a louer rebuked 87
Complaint of the absence of his loue 106
Complaint that his ladie after she knew of his loue kept her face alway hidden from him 89
Conclusive 186
Constancy 169
Contre les Petrarchistes 295
Death has put out the sun that dazzled me 283
Description of Spring, wherin eche thing renewes, saue onelie the louer 87
Description of the contrarious passions in a louer 94
Diana never pleased her lover more 261
Don Juan 298
E’en in our Ashes Live our Wonted Fires 191
Each beast in field doth wish the morning light 145
Elegiac TRANSLATED: and Address’d to Miss Sarah Watson Finch 184
En petit lieu compris vous pouez voir 83
Englands Helicon 147
Epigrams 122
Euer my hap is slack and slowe in commyng 103
Eyes curiouse to behold what nature can create 131
Fair Virgin 235
Faire is my Loue, and cruell as she’s faire 133
Faire is my Yocke, though grieuous be my Paines 150
FALL’N the fair column, blasted is the bay 175
Father of heaven, after the lost days 245
Fix me on some bleake precipice 155
Fly, O fly sad Sigh, and bear 159
For had she not bene faire and thus vnkinde 134
For twenty-one long years Love made me burn 283
FOUNTAIN of woe! Harbour of endless ire! 231
FRIEND, as we both in confidence complain 171
From hill to hill I roam, from thought to thought 199
Frome hys golden harboroughe and restyng place 63
Goe thou gentle whispering wind 154
Green fabrics, blood-red, dark or violet 255
Had but the light which dazzled them afar 214
Had not those honored leaves that tame the wrath 251
HAIL Muse! et cetera – We left Juan sleeping 298
He Apostrophizes the Spot Where Laura First Saluted him 216
He Blesses All the Circumstances of his Passion 191
He Cares not for Sufferings, So That He Displease Not Laura 193
He Celebrates the Birthplace of Laura 170
He Congratulates His Heart on its Remaining With Her 194
He Extols the Beauty and Virtue of Laura 214
He Hopes That Time Will Render Her More Merciful 190
He is jealous of the Heavens and the earth 234
He Paints the Beauties of Laura, Protesting his Unalterable Love 217
He Plays Upon the Name Laureta or Laura 213
He Relates to his Friend Sennuccio His Unhappiness and the Varied Mood of Laura 216
HE, that with wisdom, goodness, power divine 170
Her Last Appeal to Phaon 186
Here droops the Muse! while from her glowing mind 186
Here now repose those chaste, those blest remains 85
Here peaceful sleeps the chaste, the happy shade 84
Here rest the chaste, the dear, the blest remains 85
Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit 139
How oft haue I, my deare and cruell fo 104
How the louer perisheth in his delight, as the flie in the fire 93
How unhappy a Lover am I 162
How vnpossible it is to finde quiet in his loue 103
I am not as [I] seme to bee 126
I cannot hold my peace, but am afraid 226
I CULL’d whate’er the TUSCAN MUSE
had wove 182
I do not think that I have ever seen 233
I find no peace, and all my warre is done 94
I fly on wings of thought to paradise 282
I have it in my heart to serve God so 288
I ioy not peace, where yet no warre is found 128
I keep lamenting over days gone by 284
I make no war, and yet no peace have found 166
I neuer sawe my Ladye laye apart 89
I saw a Phœnix in the wood alone 124
I saw beneath the shade of a green laurel 244
I see, my gracious lady 270
I wage the combat with two mighty foes 136
I would in rich and golden-coloured rain 136
I’ve come this far. My foolhardy desire 285
If amourous fayth, or if an hart vnfained 105
If fondest faith, a heart to guile unknown 193
If I had ever reckoned that so dear 280
If it bee not loue I feele, what is it then? 128
If Love it be not, what is this I feel? 165
If no love is, O God, what fele I so? 81
If o’er each bitter pang, each hidden throe 190
If the lament of birds, or the green leaves 280
If to the sighing breeze of summer-hours 221
If true loue might true loues reward obtayne 132
IN sighs when I outbreathe your cherish’d name 213
In sleep my distant lady used to come 278
In the sweet season of my early youth 246
In what celestial sphere – what realm of thought 214
In what ideal world or part of heaven 203
INTEMPERANCE, slumber, and the slothful down 185
It is the time the rapid heavens bend 259
It was the day on which the sunne depriued of his light 121
It was the time, when I doe sadly pay 6
J’ai oublié l’art de pétrarquiser 295
Je vouldroy bien richement iaunissant 296
loue for Europaes loue tooke shape of Bull 296
Laura to Petrarch 187
Leave-Taking 192
Life flees before, not stopping on the way 279
LOOSE to the breeze her golden tresses flow’d 217
Loose to the wind her golden tresses stream’d 181
Loue, Fortune, and my minde which do remember 103
Loue, that liueth, and reigneth in my thought 87
LOV’D SONGSTRESS! who on PETRARCH’s parting DAY 183
Love spread a dainty net in grassy glade 230
Love the Ripe Harvest of my toils 160
Love, let us stay, our glory to behold 277
LOVE, thou who seest each secret thought display’d 193
Love’s Contrariety 166
Me thought I saw the graue, where Laura lay 125
My boat doth pass the straits 135
My faithful Mirror, my weary Spirit 189
My fraile and earthly barke by reasons guide 137
My galley charged with forgetfulnesse 95
My Mistress eyes are nothing like the Sunne 289
My reason absent did myne eyes require 132
My song thus now in thy Conclusions 124
My thoughts had lifted me to where she stood 281
Myne olde dere enmy, my froward maister 96
Never till now so clearly have I seen 184
Noble spirit, you who informs those members 261
Nor Arne, nor Mincius, nor stately Tiber 151
Not attainyng to his desire, he complaineth 126
NOT silvery stars that gem the robe of night 177
Not skies serene, with glittering stars inlaid 201
Not, Oh not by me shall you get fame 303
Now and then she stands among other ladies 285
Now I go grieving for the days on earth 242
Now that the winter’s gone, the earth hath lost 153
Now while the Night her sable Vaile hath spred 150
O fair and blessed soul whom Heaven awaits 252
O goodely Hand 110
O HILL with green o’erspread, with groves o’erhung! 194
O little room that once a haven seemed 277
O lovely little bird, so heavenly gay 234
O my own Italy! though words are vain 195
O SOLITARY wand’er! whither stray 187
O ye who in these scattered rhymes may hear 243
Ode 12: Glory and Virtue 223
Ode 25 226
Of douteous loue 96
Of Loue, Fortune, and the louers minde 103
Of others fained sorrow, and the louers fained mirth 93
Oh eyes! Our Sun’s extinct, and at an end 169
Oh Time! Oh rolling heavens, that fly so fast 167
Oh what to do with all that hope of mine 265
On His Mistresse’s Death 160
On my dear lady’s passing, that first day 281
On the Papal Court at Avignon 231
On the Sonnets by Female Authors 182
Parthenophil and Parthenophe 295
Passe forth my wonted cryes 102
Perhaps there was a time when love was sweet 242
Petrarch’s Contemplation of Death in the Bower of Laura 218
Place me where angrie Titan burns the More 152
Place me where Sol dries up the flow’ry fields 169
Questo è il Sonnetto ritrouato nel sepulchro di Madonna Laura in questo modo 84
Questo è quell’Epitaphio, ch’ il Gran Re Francesco I fece de Madonna Laura 83
Qui reposan quei caste & felice ossa 84
Request to Cupid, for reuenge of his vnkinde loue 101
Revenge against Cynthia 166
See, Cupid, we have found our lovely Foe 166
Self-Conflict 204
Set me wheras the sunne doth parche the grene 89
Set me where Phoebus heate, the flowers slaieth 143
She ruled in beauty o’er this heart of mine 222
‘Silet’ 302
Since it has been my fate 272
So feble is the threde, that doth the burden stay 106
So many creatures live not in the sea 167
Some fowles there be, that haue so perfit sight 93
Song 161, 163
Song In two Parts 162
Songes and Sonnettes 86–121
Sonnet after Wyatt after Petrarch 303
Sonnet for Good Friday 245
Sonnet Found in Laura’s Tomb 84
Such are his Sufferings that he Envies the Insensibility of Marble 214
Such vain thought, as wonted to mislead me 92
Sweet Spring thou turnes with all thy goodlie traine 152
Sythe singyng gladdeth oft the hartes 111
That gallant Ladie, gloriouslie bright 32
That master, Polycletus, and the rest 188
THAT nightingale, who now melodious mourns 174
That witching paleness, which with cloud of love 192
The ancient graybeard shoulders on his load 241
The Beauty of Laura Leads Him to the Contemplation of the Supreme Good 190
The Evil Results of Unrestrained Anger 215
The eyes, the face, the limbs of heavenly mould 201
The gentle season of the yeere 141
The liuelie sparkes of those two eyes 130
The liuely sparkes, that issue from those eyes 91
The longe loue, that in my thought I harber 90
The louer asketh pardon of his passed follie in loue 120
The louer being wounded with his Ladis beutie, requireth mercy. To the tune of Apelles 130
The Louer compareth his state to a shippe in perilous storme tossed on the sea 95
The louer describeth his being striken with sight of his loue 91
The louer for shamefastnesse hideth his desire within his faithfull hart 90
The louer here telleth of his diuers ioyes and aduersities in loue and lastly of his ladies death 111
The louer lamentes the
death of his loue 105
The Louer prayeth his offred hart to be receiued 104
The louer sendeth his complaints and teares to sue for grace 102
The louer sheweth that he was striken by loue on good Friday 121
The louer waxeth wiser, and will not die for affection 91
The Lover Resorts to Commerce 303
The Misery of His Love 193
The Paradise of Dainty Devices 126
The Phoenix Nest 137
The piller perisht is wherto I lent 105
The Pleas’d Captive 165
The poets swear their love in little cubes 303
The Resolution 167
The second 7 of his Ladies prayse. An exhortation to the reader to come and see his Mistrisse beautie 131
The seventeenth summer now, alas! is gone 191
The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes 87
The Spring 153
The time, when first I fell in Loue 141
The Triumph of Chastity 27
The Triumph of Death 32, 43
The Triumph of Eternity 69, 72
The Triumph of Fame 46
The Triumph of Love 6
The Triumph of Time 63
The waueryng louer wylleth, and dreadeth, to moue his desire 92
Then heuenly branches did I see arise 123
These lines I send by waues of woe 137
Thinking vpon the name, by Loue engraued 143
This Phoenix, from her wealth of aureate plumes 231
Those eies which set my fancie on a fire 138
Those eyes whose living lustre shed the heat 180
Thou that wouldst mark, in form of human birth 220
THRONED on her angel brow, when Love displays 190
To make a truce, sweete Mistres with your eies 144
To Mrs. Lofft, on a sonnet compos’d by her on the day of Petrarch’s birth, xxiv Jul. 183
To take his sweet revenge on me at last 286
To thee, Sennuccio, fain would I declare 216
Tottel’s Miscellany 86
Tree of triumphant victory! whose leaf 176
Vpon an holy Saintes eue 297
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