Petrarch,
Canzoniere — Poem XXI
(14th century)
“ A thousand times, sweet warrior, to obtain Peace with those beauteous eyes I've vainly tried, Proffering my heart; but with that lofty pride To bend your looks so lowly you refrain: Expects a stranger fair that heart to gain, In frail, fallacious hopes will she confide: It never more to me can be allied ”
