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Monna Innominata: A Sonnet Of Sonnets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Lo d igrave che han detto a' dolci amici addio Dante	B
Amor con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci Petrarca	C
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Come back to me who wait and watch for you	D
Or come not yet for it is over then	E
And long it is before you come again	E
So far between my pleasures are and few	D
While when you come not what I do I do	D
Thinking Now when he comes my sweetest when	E
For one man is my world of all the men	E
This wide world holds O love my world is you	D
Howbeit to meet you grows almost a pang	F
Because the pang of parting comes so soon	G
My hope hangs waning waxing like a moon	G
Between the heavenly days on which we meet	H
Ah me but where are now the songs I sang	F
When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet	H
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Era gi agrave ora che volge il desio Dante	B
Ricorro al tempo ch' io vi vidi prima Petrarca	C
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I wish I could remember that first day	B
First hour first moment of your meeting me	I
If bright or dim the season it might be	I
Summer or winter for aught I can say	B
So unrecorded did it slip away	B
So blind was I to see and to foresee	I
So dull to mark the budding of my tree	I
That would not blossom yet for many a May	B
If only I could recollect it such	J
A day of days I let it come and go	K
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow	K
It seem'd to mean so little meant so much	J
If only now I could recall that touch	J
First touch of hand in hand Did one but know	K
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O ombre vane fuor che ne l'aspetto Dante	B
Immaginata guida la conduce Petrarca	C
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I dream of you to wake would that I might	L
Dream of you and not wake but slumber on	M
Nor find with dreams the dear companion gone	N
As summer ended summer birds take flight	L
In happy dreams I hold you full in sight	L
I blush again who waking look so wan	M
Brighter than sunniest day that ever shone	O
In happy dreams your smile makes day of night	L
Thus only in a dream we are at one	P
Thus only in a dream we give and take	Q
The faith that maketh rich who take or give	R
If thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake	Q
To die were surely sweeter than to live	S
Though there be nothing new beneath the sun	P
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Poca favilla gran fliamma seconda Dante	B
Ogni altra cosa ogni pensier va fore	T
E sol ivi con voi rimansi amore Petrarca	C
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I lov'd you first but afterwards your love	U
Outsoaring mine sang such a loftier song	V
As drown'd the friendly cooings of my dove	U
Which owes the other most my love was long	V
And yours one moment seem'd to wax more strong	V
I lov'd and guess'd at you you construed me	I
And lov'd me for what might or might not be	I
Nay weights and measures do us both a wrong	V
For verily love knows not mine or thine	W
With separate I and thou free love has done	P
For one is both and both are one in love	U
Rich love knows nought of thine that is not mine	W
Both have the strength and both the length thereof	U
Both of us of the love which makes us one	P
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Amor che a nullo amato amar perdona Dante	B
Amor m'addusse in s igrave gioiosa spene Petrarca	C
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O my heart's heart and you who are to me	I
More than myself myself God be with you	D
Keep you in strong obedience leal and true	D
To Him whose noble service setteth free	I
Give you all good we see or can foresee	I
Make your joys many and your sorrows few	D
Bless you in what you bear and what you do	D
Yea perfect you as He would have you be	I
So much for you but what for me dear friend	X
To love you without stint and all I can	Y
Today tomorrow world without an end	X
To love you much and yet to love you more	T
As Jordan at his flood sweeps either shore	T
Since woman is the helpmeet made for man	Y
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Or puoi la quantitate	X
Comprender de l'amor che a te mi scalda Dante	X
Non vo' che da tal nodo mi scioglia Petrarca	C
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Trust me I have not earn'd your dear rebuke	Z
I love as you would have me God the most	X
Would lose not Him but you must one be lost	X
Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look	A2
Unready to forego what I forsook	A2
This say I having counted up the cost	X
This though I be the feeblest of God's host	X
The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook	A2
Yet while I love my God the most I deem	B2
That I can never love you overmuch	J
I love Him more so let me love you too	X
Yea as I apprehend it love is such	J
I cannot love you if I love not Him	C2
I cannot love Him if I love not you	X
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Qui primavera sempre ed ogni frutto Dante	X
Ragionando con meco ed io con lui Petrarca	C
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Love me for I love you and answer me	I
Love me for I love you so shall we stand	X
As happy equals in the flowering land	X
Of love that knows not a dividing sea	I
Love builds the house on rock and not on sand	X
Love laughs what while the winds rave desperately	I
And who hath found love's citadel unmann'd	X
And who hath held in bonds love's liberty	I
My heart's a coward though my words are brave	D2
We meet so seldom yet we surely part	X
So often there's a problem for your art	X
Still I find comfort in his Book who saith	E2
Though jealousy be cruel as the grave	D2
And death be strong yet love is strong as death	E2
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Come dicesse a Dio D'altro non calme Dante	X
Spero trovar piet agrave non che perdono Petrarca	C
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I if I perish perish Esther spake	Q
And bride of life or death she made her fair	F2
In all the lustre of her perfum'd hair	F2
And smiles that kindle longing but to slake	Q
She put on pomp of loveliness to take	Q
Her husband through his eyes at unaware	F2
She spread abroad her beauty for a snare	F2
Harmless as doves and subtle as a snake	Q
She trapp'd him with one mesh of silken hair	F2
She vanquish'd him by wisdom of her wit	X
And built her people's house that it should stand	X
If I might take my life so in my hand	X
And for my love to Love put up my prayer	F2
And for love's sake by Love be granted it	X
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O dignitosa coscienza e netta Dante	X
Spirto pi ugrave acceso di virtuti ardenti Petrarca	Q
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Thinking of you and all that was and all	G2
That might have been and now can never be	I
I feel your honour'd excellence and see	I
Myself unworthy of the happier call	G2
For woe is me who walk so apt to fall	G2
So apt to shrink afraid so apt to flee	I
Apt to lie down and die ah woe is me	I
Faithless and hopeless turning to the wall	G2
And yet not hopeless quite nor faithless quite	X
Because not loveless love may toil all night	X
But take at morning wrestle till the break	Q
Of day but then wield power with God and man	Y
So take I heart of grace as best I can	Y
Ready to spend and be spent for your sake	Q
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Con miglior corso e con migliore stella Dante	X
La vita fugge e non s'arresta un' ora Petrarca	Q
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Time flies hope flags life plies a wearied wing	Q
Death following hard on life gains ground apace	H2
Faith runs with each and rears an eager face	H2
Outruns the rest makes light of everything	Q
Spurns earth and still finds breath to pray and sing	Q
While love ahead of all uplifts his praise	I2
Still asks for grace and still gives thanks for grace	H2
Content with all day brings and night will bring	Q
Life wanes and when love folds his wings above	U
Tired hope and less we feel his conscious pulse	J2
Let us go fall asleep dear friend in peace	K2
A little while and age and sorrow cease	K2
A little while and life reborn annuls	K2
Loss and decay and death and all is love	U
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Vien dietro a me e lascia dir le genti Dante	X
Contando i casi della vita nostra Petrarca	Q
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Many in aftertimes will say of you	X
He lov'd her while of me what will they say	X
Not that I lov'd you more than just in play	X
For fashion's sake as idle women do	X
Even let them prate who know not what we knew	X
Of love and parting in exceeding pain	L2
Of parting hopeless here to meet again	E
Hopeless on earth and heaven is out of view	X
But by my heart of love laid bare to you	X
My love that you can make not void nor vain	L2
Love that foregoes you but to claim anew	X
Beyond this passage of the gate of death	E2
I charge you at the Judgment make it plain	L2
My love of you was life and not a breath	E2
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Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona Dante	X
Amor vien nel bel viso di costei Petrarca	Q
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If there be any one can take my place	K2
And make you happy whom I grieve to grieve	M2
Think not that I can grudge it but believe	M2
I do commend you to that nobler grace	K2
That readier wit than mine that sweeter face	K2
Yea since your riches make me rich conceive	M2
I too am crown'd while bridal crowns I weave	M2
And thread the bridal dance with jocund pace	K2
For if I did not love you it might be	I
That I should grudge you some one dear delight	X
But since the heart is yours that was mine own	O
Your pleasure is my pleasure right my right	X
Your honourable freedom makes me free	I
And you companion'd I am not alone	O
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E drizzeremo gli occhi al Primo Amore Dante	X
Ma trovo peso non da le mie braccia Petrarca	Q
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If I could trust mine own self with your fate	X
Shall I not rather trust it in God's hand	X
Without Whose Will one lily doth not stand	X
Nor sparrow fall at his appointed date	X
Who numbereth the innumerable sand	X
Who weighs the wind and water with a weight	X
To Whom the world is neither small nor great	X
Whose knowledge foreknew every plan we plann'd	X
Searching my heart for all that touches you	X
I find there only love and love's goodwill	N2
Helpless to help and impotent to do	X
Of understanding dull of sight most dim	C2
And therefore I commend you back to Him	C2
Whose love your love's capacity can fill	N2
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E la Sua Volontade egrave nostra pace Dante	X
Sol con questi pensier con altre chiome Petrarca	Q
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Youth gone and beauty gone if ever there	F2
Dwelt beauty in so poor a face as this	K2
Youth gone and beauty what remains of bliss	K2
I will not bind fresh roses in my hair	F2
To shame a cheek at best but little fair	F2
Leave youth his roses who can bear a thorn	O2
I will not seek for blossoms anywhere	F2
Except such common flowers as blow with corn	O2
Youth gone and beauty gone what doth remain	L2
The longing of a heart pent up forlorn	O2
A silent heart whose silence loves and longs	K2
The silence of a heart which sang its songs	K2
While youth and beauty made a summer morn	O2
Silence of love that cannot sing again	E