Sonnet LXV

Petrarch * Track #235 On The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch

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Petrarch

1875

Sonnet LXV by Petrarch

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Sonnet LXV Annotated

BETTER IS IT TO DIE HAPPY THAN TO LIVE IN PAIN

Always in hate the window shall I bear,
Whence Love has shot on me his shafts at will,
Because not one of them sufficed to kill:
For death is good when life is bright and fair,
But in this earthly jail its term to outwear
Is cause to me, alas! of infinite ill;
And mine is worse because immortal still,
Since from the heart the spirit may not tear.
Wretched! ere this who surely ought'st to know
By long experience, from his onward course
None can stay Time by flattery or by force.
Oft and again have I address'd it so:
Mourner, away! he parteth not too soon
Who leaves behind him far his life's calm June.

Macgregor.

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