Alan Seeger (Алан Сигер)

Thirty Sonnets. 11. Sonnet 11. WHEN among creatures fair of countenance

    A paraphrase of Petrarca, Quando fra l'altre donne...

WHEN among creatures fair of countenance
Love comes enformed in such proud character,
So far as other beauty yields to her,
So far the breast with fiercer longing pants;
I bless the spot, and hour, and circumstance,
That wed desire to a thing so high,
And say, Glad soul, rejoice, for thou and I
Of bliss unpaired are made participants;
Hence have come ardent thoughts and waking dreams
That, feeding Fancy from so sweet a cup,
Leave it no lust for gross imaginings.
Through her the woman's perfect beauty gleams
That while it gazes lifts the spirit up
To that high source from which all beauty springs.

1. Thirty Sonnets. 10. Sonnet 10. A splendor, flamelike, born to be pursued
2. Thirty Sonnets. 13. Sonnet 13. I fancied, while you stood conversing there
3. Thirty Sonnets. 26. The Old Lowe House, Staten Island
4. Thirty Sonnets. 12. Sonnet 12. Like as a dryad, from her native bole
5. The Bayadere

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