FIRST READING.

_LOVE'S LOADSTONE._

_No so s' è la desiata luce._

I know not if it be the longed-for light

Of her first Maker which the spirit feels;

Or if a time-old memory reveals

Some other beauty for the heart's delight;

Or fame or dreams beget that vision bright,

Sweet to the eyes, which through the bosom steals,

Leaving I know not what that wounds and heals,

And now perchance hath made me weep outright.

Be this what this may be, 'tis this I seek:

Nor guide have I; nor know I where to find

That burning fire; yet some one seems to lead.

This, since I saw thee, lady, makes me weak;

A bitter-sweet sways here and there my mind,

And sure I am thine eyes this mischief breed.

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella; Now for the First Time Translated into Rhymed English · 第 89 / 232 题