Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Vaucluse | | On His Return to Vaucluse after Laura’s Death | | Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) |
| | Petrarch’s Sonnets on Vaucluse. V.
Translated by Francis Wrangham
VALLEY, which long hast echoed with my cries; | |
| Stream, which my flowing tears have often fed; | |
| Beasts, fluttering birds, and ye who in the bed | |
| Of Cabrieres’ wave display your speckled dyes; | |
| Air, hushed to rest and softened by my sighs; | 5 |
| Dear path, whose mazes lone and sad I tread; | |
| Hill of delight,—though now delight is fled,— | |
| To rove whose haunts Love still my foot decoys; | |
| Well I retain your old unchanging face! | |
| Myself how changed! in whom, for joy’s light throng, | 10 |
| Infinite woes their constant mansion find! | |
| Here bloomed my bliss; and I your tracks retrace, | |
| To mark whence upward to her heaven she sprung, | |
| Leaving her beauteous spoil, her robe of flesh behind! | | | | |
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