33LUCA SIGNORELLI TO HIS SON.(1500.)They brought thy body back to me quite dead, Just as thou hadst been stricken in the brawl. I let no tear, I let no curses fall, But signed to them to lay thee on the bed;Then...

33LUCA SIGNORELLI TO HIS SON.(1500.)They brought thy body back to me quite dead, Just as thou hadst been stricken in the brawl. I let no tear, I let no curses fall, But signed to them to lay thee on the bed;Then...

31.LODOVICO SFORZA TO BEATRICE D'ESTE.(1498.)Love, as I sat last night upon my bed, I felt my heart ache suddenly and grow Big as the world; and now the morning glow Seems blacker than the night, not rosy red;An...

SonnetI wish I could remember that first day,First hour, first moment of your meeting me,If bright or dim the season, it might beSummer or Winter for aught I can say;So unrecorded did it slip away,So blind was I to see and to f...

SonnetI wish I could remember that first day,First hour, first moment of your meeting me,If bright or dim the season, it might beSummer or Winter for aught I can say;So unrecorded did it slip away,So blind was I to see and to f...

38CATHERINE TALBOT TO HER CHILD. 1510A face keeps peeping at me through the pane; I know thee; thou art Madness. Where are they, The men with masks, who stole my child away? All day, all night, I hunt for it in vain.I h...

38CATHERINE TALBOT TO HER CHILD. 1510A face keeps peeping at me through the pane; I know thee; thou art Madness. Where are they, The men with masks, who stole my child away? All day, all night, I hunt for it in vain.I h...

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)Farewell, love, and all thy laws forever,Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.Senec and Plato call me from thy loreTo perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavor.In blind error when I did persever,Thy...

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)Farewell, love, and all thy laws forever,Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.Senec and Plato call me from thy loreTo perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavor.In blind error when I did persever,Thy...

28LOUIS DE LIGNY TO LEONORA ALTAMURA.1495The amber battlements of castled cloud; The phantom isles that fool a ship at sea; The congregated minarets that flee And cheat the caravan's worn thirsty crowd;All those...