1. - Come back to me, who wait and watch for you

"Lo di che han detto a' dolci amici addio."--Dante.

"Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci!"--Petrarca.

Come back to me, who wait and watch for you:--

Or come not yet, for it is over then,

And long it is before you come again,

So far between my pleasures are and few.

While, when you come not, what I do I do

Thinking "Now when he comes," my sweetest "when:"

For one man is my world of all the men

This wide world holds; O love, my world is you.

Howbeit, to meet you grows almost a pang

Because the pang of parting comes so soon;

My hope hangs waning, waxing, like a moon

Between the heavenly days on which we meet:

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang

When life was sweet because you called them sweet?