Chapter XV
_Perchè tuo gran bellezze al mondo sieno
In donna più cortese e manco dura,
Prego se ne ripigli la natura
Tutte quelle ch’ ogn’ or ti vengon meno;
E serbi a riformar del tuo sereno
E divin volto una gientil figura
Del ciel, e sia d’ amor perpetua cura
Rifarne un cor di grazia e pietà pieno.
E serbi poi i miei sospiri ancora,
E le lacrime sparte insieme accoglia,
E doni a chi quella ami un’ altra volta.
Forse a pietà chi nascierà ’n quell ’ora
La moverà con la mie propria doglia;
Nè fia persa la grazia ch’ or m’ è tolta._
_That womanhood more tender and less cold
Be clothed with beauty equal and the same,
I pray that heaven may from thee reclaim
Her gifts, that hourly perish and grow old,
Of thy serene and radiant face remould
A gentle heavenly form, and Love assign
The task to store a heart more mild than thine
With mercies sweet and charities untold.
My sighs let him preserve, from every place
My fallen wasted tears unite again,
And on the friend of this new fair bestow.
Thus may befall, that he who sues for grace
Compassion shall awaken by my pain,
And love that I have lost be garnered so._
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Sonnets and madrigals of Michelangelo BuonarrotiChapter XV
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