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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work., Sunshine and Petrarch. (search)
tive among Petrarch's love-poems, so far as I know,--showing least of that air of earnestness which he has contrived to impart to almost all,--is this little ode or madrigal. It is interesting to see, from this, that he could be almost conventional and courtly in moments when he held Laura farthest aloof; and when it is compared with the depths of solemn emotion in his later sonnets, it seems like the soft glistening of young birch-leaves against a background of pines. Canzone XXIII. Nova angeletta sovra l'ale accorta. Petrach. A new-born angel, with her wings extended, Came floating from the skies to this fair shore, Where, fate-controlled, I wandered with my sorrows. She saw me there, alone and unbefriended. She wove a silken net, and threw it o'er The turf, whose greenness all the pathway borrows. Then was I captured; nor could fears arise, Such sweet seduction glimmered from her eyes. Turn from these light compliments to the pure and reverential tenderness of a sonnet