Sonnet 292
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Sonnet 292 by Francesco Petrarca
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Although sonnets had been written in Italy for nearly 100 years before Petrarch wrote his, it was he who established the sonnet s a major poetic form. In addition to his impact on the Elizabethans, Petrarch had a considerable influence on such poets as Michelangelo, Ronsard, and Lope de Vega.
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Sonnet 292 Annotated
The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn,
the arms and hands and feet and lovely face
that took me from myself for such a space
of time and marked me out from other men;
the waving hair of unmixed gold that shone,
the smile that flashed with the angelic rays
that used to make this earth a paradise,
are now a little dust, all feeling gone;
and yet I live, grief and disdain to me,
left where the light I cherished never shows,
in fragile bark on the tempestuous sea.
Here let my loving song come to a close,
the vein of my accustomed art is dry,
and this, my lyre, turned at last to tears.