Sonnet CCVIII

Petrarch * Track #108 On The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

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Petrarch

1875

Sonnet CCVIII by Petrarch

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Petrarch

Sonnet CCVIII Annotated

HE PRAYS THAT HE MAY DIE BEFORE LAURA

The balmy gale, that, with its tender sigh,
Moves the green laurel and the golden hair,
Makes with its graceful visitings and rare
The gazer's spirit from his body fly.
A sweet and snow-white rose in hard thorns set!
Where in the world her fellow shall we find?
The glory of our age! Creator kind!
Grant that ere hers my death shall first be met.
So the great public loss I may not see,
The world without its sun, in darkness left,
And from my desolate eyes their sole light reft,
My mind with which no other thoughts agree,
Mine ears which by no other sound are stirr'd
Except her ever pure and gentle word.

Macgregor.

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