Sonnet CCXIX.
In quel bel viso, ch' i' sospiro e bramo. ON LAURA PUTTING HER HAND BEFORE HER EYES WHILE HE WAS GAZING ON HER. On the fair face for which I long and sigh Mine eyes were fasten'd with desire intense. When, to my fond thoughts, Love, in best reply, Her honour'd hand uplifting, shut me thence. My heart there caught--as fish a fair hook by, Or as a young bird on a limd fence-- For good deeds follow from example high, To truth directed not its busied sense. But of its one desire my vision reft, As dreamingly, soon oped itself a way, Which closed, its bliss imperfect had been left: My soul between those rival glories lay, Fill'd with a heavenly and new delight, Whose strange surpassing sweets engross'd it quite. MACGREGOR.
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"In quel bel viso, ch' i' sospiro e bramo...."
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