Petrarch Poems - Poems about Petrarch

Geoffrey Chaucer translations 2 by Michael R Burch

..."Cantus Troili" from "Troilus and Criseyde"
by Petrarch
translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
modernization by Michael R. Burch

If there’s no love, O God, why then, so low?
And if love is, what thin...

Petrarch translations into English

...PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS

Sonnet XIV
by Petrarch
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire
to banish every virtue from mankind, 
replaced by evil in hi...

Venezuela Angel Part 1

...I.
Can you hear the scale in D major as it plays a cantabile manner? Please gather around and hear my words as they will become the banner to which you will march. My one fear is to be rejected by t...

The Forgotten Bards: Song of the Classical Minstrels

...
Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry,
With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples,

When now a country honors not classical bards:
O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarc...

Petrarch

...QUIET murmurs where we sat
and spoke about it

How the world is losing love
and kindness

You told me you loved me
and now there are tears.

I may not always see you
and sometimes we doubt ...

Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn

...Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti
sunrise, the folly of Easter
islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded
limbos and purgatories, the never evermore
Polynesian metaphors t...

The Wanton Rapture Blazing

...
"The Wanton Rapture Blazing"

I hear you in the ribbons that sing
tied to poles of gallantry where charged
with acts of misadventure love carried me
to your walls, I wrote ...

Lament For the Makers

...The death of once-great swans I oft' lament;
     and ask in vain, “Where have all the bards gone?”
No more are written lines as eloquent
     as in the days of Poesy's ancient dawn,
when Homer s...

Clerihew Petrarch

...Petrarch the poet invented a sonnet
but to himself he kept it secret
Then in England a version came
for Surrey&Wyatt claimed his fame...

Grandpa

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Grandpa raised me to listen to the whisper of grace, tracing out miracles on the edge of my faith… by poet

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Grandpa had hair like salt and pepper
His hands were old and w...

Sonnets - Pleiades

...Sonneteer Petrarch, with
      Shakespeare, set the standards:
   so little space - fourteen
            short lines, each with just ten
         syllables. Yet greats like
                 St. ...

Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of William Wordsworth's ''Nuns Fret Not''

...“Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room”
by William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with their pensive ci...

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkeable Things

...If nobody speaks of remarkable things


Consciousness hides behind curtains of sleep,
Bright lights dim in the cerebral gloom,
Thoughts of tomorrow hold no credible guise,
A vacuum grows in the...

The Laurel Tree

...The tender leaves of Laurel trees, reveals a name so rare,
a crown made of chartreuse shades is believed to show you care.
In the fourteenth century poet Petrarch adored his beloved’s m...

The Wisdom of Numbers

...One
we go
Two three through
this life for all
they seek the Fifth column
they had a Sixth sense to 
recompense the poor the weak impoverished Ones
Petrarch, Dickens, Marx, Harding-Davis, Riis,...

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