tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17676950.post6950440898860018179..comments2024-03-21T23:30:20.105-04:00Comments on Poets Online - the blog: Prompt: Petrarch, Laura and the SonnetsPoets Onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11880224855001620610noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17676950.post-184193123526796852019-05-12T09:51:51.929-04:002019-05-12T09:51:51.929-04:00ON Petrarch's heart, all other days before,
In...ON Petrarch's heart, all other days before,<br />In flaming letters written, was impress d<br />GOOD FRIDAY. And on mine, be it confess'd,<br />Is this year's ADVENT, as it passeth o'er.<br />I do not now begin,--I still adore<br />Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast;,<br />Then once again with prudence dispossess'd,<br />And to whose heart I'm driven back once more.<br />The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love,<br />Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad;<br />One long Good Friday 'twas, one heartache drear<br />But may my mistress' Advent ever prove,<br />With its palm-jubilee, so sweet and glad,<br />One endless Mayday, through the livelong year! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com