Sonnet CLXXXVI
Read 'Sonnet CLXXXVI' by 'Francesco Petrarch' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
SONNET CLXXXVI.
Liete e pensose, accompagnate e sole.
NOT FINDING HER WITH HER FRIENDS, HE ASKS THEM WHY SHE IS ABSENT.
P. Pensive and glad, accompanied, alone,Ladies who cheat the time with converse gay,Where does my life, where does my death delay?Why not with you her form, as usual, shown?L. Glad are we her rare lustre to have known,And sad from her dear company to stay,Which jealousy and envy keep awayO'er other's bliss, as their own ill who moan.P. Who lovers can restrain, or give them law?L. No one the soul, harshness and rage the frame;As erst in us, this now in her appears.As oft the face, betrays the heart, we sawClouds that, obscuring her high beauty, came,And in her eyes the dewy trace of tears.
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