Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido)

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="SONNET" id="SONNET"></SPAN>SONNET</h2> <h3>(<i>From the Spanish of Pl&aacute;cido</i>)</h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Enough of love! Let break its every hold!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ended my youthful folly! for I know<br/></span> <span class="i2">That, like the dazzling, glister-shedding snow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Celia, thou art beautiful, but cold.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I do not find in thee that warmth which glows,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Which, all these dreary days, my heart has sought,<br/></span> <span class="i2">That warmth without which love is lifeless, naught<br/></span> <span class="i0">More than a painted fruit, a waxen rose.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Such love as thine, scarce can it bear love's name,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Deaf to the pleading notes of his sweet lyre,<br/></span> <span class="i0">A frank, impulsive heart I wish to claim,<br/></span> <span class="i2">A heart that blindly follows its desire.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I wish to embrace a woman full of flame,<br/></span> <span class="i2">I want to kiss a woman made of fire.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />