The Daily Sonnet Episode 18

This is episode 18 of the poetry vlog The Daily Sonnet in which we read some of the best read poems on the internet. This week we are focusing on one of the earliest practitioners of the Sonnet Petrarch. Todays sonnet is Sonnet 3 by Petrarch. translated by A.S. Kline buy the book on Amazon You can find the whole vlog at Heres the text of Sonnet 3 It was on that day when the suns ray was darkened in pity for its Maker that I was captured and did not defend myself because your lovely eyes had bound me Lady. It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself against Loves blows: so I went on confident unsuspecting from that my troubles started amongst the public sorrows. Love discovered me all weaponless and opened the way to the heart through the eyes which are made the passageways and doors of tears: so that it seems to me it does him little honour to wound me with his arrow in that state he not showing his bow at all to you who are armed.,

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