Submissions by Kline, A. S. ( 47 translations )

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Translations of entire song cycles (alphabetic order):

• Tre sonetti di Petrarca: Petrarch Sonnets

Texts and Translations

• I go weeping for my time past [translation]
• Little wandering bird that goes singing [translation]
• When my gentle faithful comforter [translation]
• The eyes I spoke about so warmly [translation]
• If I had thought the voice of my sighs [translation]
• She used to be lovely and living in my heart [translation]
• How much envy I bear you, greedy earth [translation]
• My thought raised me to a place in which [translation]
• Zephyr returns and brings fair weather [translation]
• One day, standing alone at my window [translation]
• Love, when my hope [translation]
• My kindly fate, and a life made happy [translation]
• From time to time I seem to hear that messenger [translation]
• This fragile and fallen good of ours [translation]
• Now that the sky and the earth and the wind are silent [translation]
• What must I do? What do you counsel, Love? [translation]
• Full of a wandering thought that separates me [translation]
• Life flies, and never stays an hour [translation]
• Many times now, with my true thought [translation]
• If the birds lament, or the green leaves [translation]
• Through the midst of inhospitable, wild woods [translation]
• Happy spirit that so often turns [translation]
• I saw angelic virtue on earth [translation]
• I know the gentle breeze that clears the hills [translation]
• Death, you’ve made the loveliest face I’ve seen [translation]
• The thread on which my heavy life hangs [translation]
• All day I weep: and then in the night [translation]
• Diana was not more pleasing to her lover [translation]
• ‘Ladies who go talking along the way [translation]
• Because she bore Love’s emblems in her aspect [translation]
• I sang, and now I weep, and I take no less [translation]
• Blessed be the day, and the month, and the year [translation]
• A new young angel carried by her wings [translation]
• I find no peace, and yet I make no war: [translation]
• She let her gold hair scatter in the breeze [translation]
• Alone and thoughtful, through the most desolate fields [translation]
• From time to time they are less harsh to me [translation]
• My luck is always late and slow to reach me [translation]
• The breeze that with its gentle sighing moves [translation]
• You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes [translation]
• Her savage bitter heart, and cruel will [translation]
• If my life of bitter torment and of tears [translation]
• If I could take my vengeance on her [translation]
• My weary eyes, there, while I turn you [translation]
• Because this life is short [translation]
• Apollo, if that sweet desire is still alive [translation]
• Ah me, the beautiful face, ah me, the gentle look [translation]

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