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Canzone XIX
HE VEHEMENTLY REBUTS THE CHARGE OF LOVING ANOTHER. / Perdie! I said it not, / Nor never thought to do:
Canzone XV
HE FINDS HER IMAGE EVERYWHERE. / When Love, fond Love, commands the strain, / The coyest muse must sure obey;
Canzone XVI
TO THE PRINCES OF ITALY, EXHORTING THEM TO SET HER FREE. / O my own Italy! though words are vain / The mortal wounds to close,
Canzone XVII
DISTANCE AND SOLITUDE. / From hill to hill I roam, from thought to thought, / With Love my guide; the beaten path I fly,
Canzone XVIII
HE COMPARES HIMSELF TO ALL THAT IS MOST STRANGE IN CREATION. / Whate'er most wild and new / Was ever found in any foreign land,
Canzone XX
HE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT SEEING HER, BUT WOULD NOT DIE THAT HE MAY STILL LOVE HER. / As pass'd the years which I have left behind, / To pass my future years I fondly thought,
Canzone XXI
SELF-CONFLICT. / Ceaseless I think, and in each wasting thought / So strong a pity for myself appears,
Madrigale I
ANYTHING THAT REMINDS HIM OF LAURA RENEWS HIS TORMENTS. / Not Dian to her lover was more dear, / When fortune 'mid the waters cold and clear,
Madrigale II
A LOVE JOURNEY--DANGER IN THE PATH--HE TURNS BACK. / Bright in whose face Love's conquering ensign stream'd, / A foreign fair so won me, young and vain,
Madrigale III
HE ALLEGORICALLY DESCRIBES THE ORIGIN OF HIS PASSION. / From heaven an angel upon radiant wings, / New lighted on that shore so fresh and fair,
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