Skip to content
Linespedia

To Laura In Death. Sonnet LXXVIII.

Topics: classic

E' mi par d' or in ora udire il messo.     HE FEELS THAT THE DAY OF THEIR REUNION IS AT HAND.         Methinks from hour to hour her voice I hear:     My Lady calls me! I would fain obey;     Within, without, I feel myself decay;     And am so alter'd--not with many a year--     That to myself a stranger I appear;     All my old usual life is put away--     Could I but know how long I have to stay!     Grant, Heaven, the long-wish'd summons may be near!     Oh, blest the day when from this earthly gaol     I shall be freed, when burst and broken lies     This mortal guise, so heavy yet so frail,     When from this black night my saved spirit flies,     Soaring up, up, above the bright serene,     Where with my Lord my Lady shall be seen.     MACGREGOR.

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"E' mi par d' or in ora udire il messo...."

Exploring the themes of classic, Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) delivers a powerful performance in "To Laura In Death. Sonnet LXXVIII."... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

"Vergine bella che di sol vestita.     TO THE VIRGIN MARY.     Beautiful Virgin! clothed with the sun,     Crown'd with the stars, who so the"

"O cameretta che gi fosti un porto.     HE NO LONGER FINDS RELIEF IN SOLITUDE.         Thou little chamber'd haven to the woes     Whose dai"

"Ahi bella libert, come tu m' hai.     HE DEPLORES HIS LOST LIBERTY AND THE UNHAPPINESS OF HIS PRESENT STATE.         Alas! fair Liberty, thu"

"Una donna pi bella assai che 'l sole.     GLORY AND VIRTUE.         A lady, lovelier, brighter than the sun,     Like him superior o'er all"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

"Vergine bella che di sol vestita.     TO THE VIRG..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.