Petrarch Laura Francesco Petrarch and Laura For a woman he would never know
For a woman he could never have
He should change the world forever
site map   contact  

  PETRARCH
  LAURA & OTHERS

  PICTURES
  WRITINGS
  BOOKS

  THE COLLECTION

  EVENTS
  PAPERS & ESSAYS
  MUSIC SETTINGS

  FAQs
  WEB LINKS
  SITE MAP

  CONTACT

Google


Search this Site
Search the Web



Petrarch:The Canzoniere

Translated by: A.S.Kline
Download them all in English or Italian
<<< PREVIOUS <<< Poem 86 of 366 >>> NEXT >>>
JUMP TO POEM

Information on the sonnet is available here.
Looking for an analysis of a specific poem from the Canzoniere?
Read I go thinking an analysis of poem 264 by Holly Barbaccia.


ITALIAN ENGLISH
Io avrò sempre in odio la fenestra
onde Amor m'aventò già mille strali,
perch'alquanti di lor non fur mortali:
ch'è bel morir, mentre la vita è dextra.

Ma 'l sovrastar ne la pregion terrestra
cagion m'è, lasso, d'infiniti mali;
et piú mi duol che fien meco immortali,
poi che l'alma dal cor non si scapestra.

Misera, che devrebbe esser accorta
per lunga experïentia omai che 'l tempo
non è chi 'ndietro volga, o chi l'affreni.

Piú volte l'ò con ta' parole scorta:
Vattene, trista, ché non va per tempo
chi dopo lassa i suoi dí piú sereni.

I always hate that window from which Love
has already shot a thousand arrows at me,
though not a single one of them was mortal:
it's good for death to come while life's still happy.

And surviving in this earthly prison
causes me, infinite pain, alas:
and more because my grief will be immortal,
since the soul's not separated from the heart.

Wretch, it should realise by now,
through long experience, that time
can never be turned back, or be restrained.

I often guide it with such words as these:
'Go, sad one, he does not go before his time
who leaves the happiest of his days behind.


© Copyright 1999-2006
Peter Sadlon
Updated Sept 10th 2007

A Merentha Entertainment Project


PETRARCH LAURA PICTURES WRITINGS BOOKS EVENTS PAPERS SETTINGS FAQs CONTACT