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Further, I would recommend some more from my own list.

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But, grieve, before the hour of tears is come, that is already near, take to the end now brief comfort from such long suffering.

And that unknowing what he did, He leaped amid a murderous band, And saved from outrage worse than death The Lady of the Land! I studied his works in my second year of English, and as a multi-tasking poet, humanist, scholar, he's regarded as one of the most important Italian writers of his time.

But when I told the cruel scorn That crazed that bold and lovely Knight, And that he crossed the mountain-woods, Nor rested day nor night; That sometimes from the savage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes starting up at once In green and sunny glade,— There came and looked him in the face An angel beautiful and bright; And that he knew it was a Fiend, This miserable Knight! For this we live a thousand years; For this we love, and we live because we love, we are not Inside a bottle, thank goodness! He looks in vain for divine beauty who has never yet seen how tenderly she moves those eyes of hers around: he does not know how Love heals, and how he kills, who does not know how sweet her sighs are, and how sweet her speech, and sweet her smile.

"Italian Poet Petrarca's Most Famous Poetry Is to the Woman He Loved.

Above, below, by you, by you surrounded.

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O sweet, O heavy-lidded, O my love, When morning strikes her spear upon the land, And we must rise and arm us and reprove The insolent daylight with a steady hand, Be not discountenanced if the knowing know We rose from rapture but an hour ago.

Make a golden bridge for a fleeing foe.

Italian Poet Petrarca's Most Famous Poetry Is to the Woman He Loved.

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