The speaker asks the addressee to “come to my bed, / As [this figure] appeared to [this figure’s lover]” at the beginning of Victor Hugo’s poem “Oh! quand je dors.” The speaker describes “see[ing] without eyes” because of this figure after claiming “I find no peace, and yet I make no war” in a poem that inspired a Thomas Wyatt adaptation. Figures like Death and Love are battled before an author reunites with this woman in a series of poems titled Triumphs. The (*) “lovely eyes” of this figure captivate the speaker of one poem on “that day when the sun’s ray / was darkened in pity for its Maker.” The speaker describes “those sighs on which I fed my heart” in a sonnet dedicated to this woman that opens “You who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes.” For 10 points, name this dedicatee of Petrarch’s Il Canzoniere. ■END■
ANSWER: Laura [accept Laura de Noves; accept Laureta]
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