safe in her husbands arms with peaceful sigh now slumbers youthful wife while dreams beguile storm's thunder passes: some ire others mild clap in the air, from lover must she pry
babe's cry rings out in starlit sky and mother rushes toward her child was he awoke from storm, or's ***** defiled? with turn of little light see smile that's shy
she lifts him up from crib of purest white on changing table she lays little one fresh, no new diaper, she picks him up and his eyes gaze up with the shade bluest bright love sounding in voice, mother hums to son she starts to rock him back off to dream land
Form: The Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet November 2013