Petrarch - Sonnet CI lyrics

REPLY TO A SONNET OF JACOPO DA LENTINO Ways apt and new to sing of love I'd find, Forcing from her hard heart full many a sigh, And re-enkindle in her frozen mind Desires a thousand, pa**ionate and high; O'er her fair face would see each swift change pa**, See her fond eyes at length where pity reigns, As one who sorrows when too late, alas! For his own error and another's pains; See the fresh roses edging that fair snow Move with her breath, that ivory descried, Which turns to marble him who sees it near; See all, for which in this brief life below Myself I weary not but rather pride That Heaven for later times has kept me here. Macgregor.