A thousand doubts and pleadings in a day
Are filed in Empress Reason's court supreme
By angry Love--his eyes with anger gleam.
"Which of us twain hath been more faithful, say.
'Tis all through me that Cino can display
The sail of fame on life's unhappy stream."
"Thee," quoth I, "root of all my woe I deem,
I found what gall beneath thy sweetness lay."
Then he: "Ah, traitorous and truant slave!
Are these the thanks thou renderest, ingrate,
For giving thee a maid without a peer?"
"Thy left," cried I, "slew what thy right hand gave."
"Not so," said he. The judge, "Your wrath abate.
I must have time to give true judgment here."
Cino da Pistoia.
[Imitated by Petrarch in the conclusion of the Canzone, Quell' antico mio dolce empio signore.]
The Court Of Reason
James Williams
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Poem topics: anger, life, thanks, time, judge, supreme, angry, true, reason, conclusion, beneath, slave, display, Valentine's Day, stream, love, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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