Give mine their wasted looks, that they may see
Some kinder loveliness, disdained by thee!
With these sonnets of ideal love may be compared one later in date, apparently more biographic in sentiment, and doubtless inspired by Vittoria Colonna.
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S’I’ AVESSI CREDUTO AL PRIMO SGUARDO
Had I believed, when first I met the glow
Of this bright soul, my sun, that I might rise
Through fire renewed in such triumphal wise
As doth the Phœnix from her ashes go,