Question

In a poem, this author prayed to “die in peaceful harbor,” and asked that “if my stay / was vain, let my vanishing, at least, be virtuous.” In a poem in which he moves between “vain hope and vain sadness,” this poet lamented “the world’s delight is a brief dream.” A “Prayer to the Virgin” ends a collection by this author in which he is “captured” by “lovely eyes” on a day when the “sun’s ray / was darkened.” Thomas (*) Wyatt translated parts of a collection by this author about a woman he had met on Good Friday, which opens “you who hear (10[1])the sound in scattered rhymes.” (10[1])For 10 points, the collection Il Canzoniere (10[1])(“cant-zon-YARE-ay”) is by what Italian poet, whose unrequited love for Laura appears in (10[1])some of his namesake sonnets? ■END■

ANSWER: Petrarch [or Francesco Petrarca; accept Petrarchan sonnet]
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - European - Poetry&gt; ~25262~ &lt;Editor: Joseph Krol>
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tanay BodducherlaMira LomaHeights10210
Omar HamidDunbarWinston Churchill B10710
Matt MokrzyckiCarl SandburgMaggie Walker C11410
Sanjay RanjithThomas Jefferson DMercer County12610

Summary

2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y4100%0%0%112.25