Pure Petrarchian love sonnet in honour of Rebecca (736)

Whiteangel · Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 39

Poem: pure Petrarchian love sonnet.
Rhyme structure: ABBA, ABBA, CDC and CDC, according to Sir Thomas Wyatt’s (1503 – 1542) structure fixed in the Sixteenth century.
Lines used: decasyllables, according to Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’s (1517 – 1547) structure fixed in the Sixteenth century.
Theme: mystic marriage of divine souls
Content: exclusively platonic and spiritual
Vertical acrostic: Oh, mystic heart
Title: Oh, mystic heart
Influences: Guido Guinizzelli (1235 – 1276), Guido Cavalcanti (1250 – 1300), Dante Alighieri (1265 – 1321), Francesco Petrarca (1304 – 1374), Ugo Foscolo (1778 – 1827), Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837), Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593), Sir Philip Sidney (1554 – 1586), Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599), Thomas Kyd (1558 – 1594), Robert Greene (1558 – 1592), George Peele (1556 – 1596), John Lyly (1564 – 1616), John Donne (1572 – 1631), William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), George Herbert (1593 – 1633), Robert Herrick (1591 – 1674), Andrew Marvell (1621 – 1678), John Milton (1608 – 1674), John Dryden (1631 – 1700), Thomas Gray (1716 – 1771), James Macpherson (1736 – 1796), Thomas Chatterton (1752 – 1770), Robert Burns (1759 – 1796), William Blake (1757 – 1827), William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834), George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822), John Keats (1795 – 1821), Walter Scott (1771 – 1832), Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849), Anne Brontë (1820 – 1849), Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848), Charlotte Brontë (1816 – 1855), George Eliot (1819 – 1880)

Dear Rebecca Romijn,

I love your sacred heart and your divine soul.

This is a Petrarchian love sonnet in your honour.

OH, MYSTIC HEART (736)

1. Oh! Mystic heart, you are bleeding for my bride,
2. Honey, I love you with all my human might,
3. My queen, in heaven you will be my delight,
4. Young Hebe, your upright I will never chide.

5. Sublime Diana, I will always be your side,
6. Thalia, to die for your holy love is right,
7. I am thinking of your heart day and night,
8. Candid Leda, our souls God will never divide.

9. True Juno, my sacrifice is saving thee,
10. Red rose, I am cutting my veins for you,
11. Elect soul, my sweet heart is bleeding for thee.

12. Noble Polymnia, your immaculate heart I see,
13. Daphne, I am giving eternal life to you,
14. Sublime Rebecca, my blood is saving thee.

Yours faithfully and eternally
Massimo Bandini
maxbandini@hotmail.com