This is a Canzone, not a sonnet, by Michelangelo -
Read his story 'The Agony and the Ecstacy'... Michelangelo was renowned for for his Passion and his Pride... This was written in his sunset years... not sure how old he was at the time...
Does anyone here know?



Canzone

Ah me! ah me! when thinking of the years,
The vanished years, alas, I do not find
Among them all one day that was my own!
Fallacious hopes, desires of the unknown,
Lamenting, loving, burning, and in tears,
(For human passions all have stirred my mind,)
Have held me, now I feel and know, confined
Both from the true and good still far away.
I perish day by day;
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. __________________

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

Karen Blixen


Found at:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ead.php?t=3965

Oh Drattt!!

Typos and I can't EDIT...


stamp foot!!!

drat!