Poems and translations
by Francesco Petrarca J. M. Synge
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Chapters (98)
- POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS
- CONTENTS
- POEMS
- PREFACE
- QUEENS
- IN KERRY
- A WISH
- THE ’MERGENCY MAN
- DANNY
- PATCH-SHANEEN
- ON AN ISLAND
- BEG-INNISH
- EPITAPH
- THE PASSING OF THE SHEE
- ON AN ANNIVERSARY
- TO THE OAKS OF GLENCREE
- A QUESTION
- DREAD
- IN GLENCULLEN
- I’VE THIRTY MONTHS
- EPITAPH
- PRELUDE
- IN MAY
- ON A BIRTHDAY
- WINTER
- THE CURSE.
- TRANSLATIONS FROM PETRARCH
- SONNETS FROM “LAURA IN DEATH”
- LAURA BEING DEAD, PETRARCH FINDS TROUBLE IN ALL THE THINGS OF THE EARTH
- HE ASKS HIS HEART TO RAISE ITSELF UP TO GOD
- HE WISHES HE MIGHT DIE AND FOLLOW LAURA
- LAURA IS EVER PRESENT TO HIM
- HE CEASES TO SPEAK OF HER GRACES AND HER VIRTUES WHICH ARE NO MORE
- HE IS JEALOUS OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
- THE FINE TIME OF THE YEAR INCREASES PETRARCH’S SORROW
- HE UNDERSTANDS THE GREAT CRUELTY OF DEATH
- THE SIGHT OF LAURA’S HOUSE REMINDS HIM OF THE GREAT HAPPINESS HE HAS LOST
- HE SENDS HIS RHYMES TO THE TOMB OF LAURA TO PRAY HER TO CALL HIM TO HER
- ONLY HE WHO MOURNS HER AND HEAVEN THAT POSSESSES HER, KNEW HER WHILE SHE LIVED
- LAURA WAITS FOR HIM IN HEAVEN
- TRANSLATIONS FROM VILLON AND OTHERS
- VILLON PRAYER OF THE OLD WOMAN, VILLON’S MOTHER
- VILLON AN OLD WOMAN’S LAMENTATIONS
- COLIN MUSSET, AN OLD POET, COMPLAINS TO HIS PATRON
- WALTER VON DER VOGELWEIDE
- LEOPARDI SILVIA
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