Sonnet CCXIV
Read 'Sonnet CCXIV' by 'Francesco Petrarch' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
SONNET CCXIV.
In dubbio di mio stato, or piango, or canto.
TO HIS LONGING TO SEE HER AGAIN IS NOW ADDED THE FEAR OF SEEING HER NO MORE.
Uncertain of my state, I weep and sing,I hope and tremble, and with rhymes and sighsI ease my load, while Love his utmost triesHow worse my sore afflicted heart to sting.Will her sweet seraph face again e'er bringTheir former light to these despairing eyes.(What to expect, alas! or how advise)Or must eternal grief my bosom wring?For heaven, which justly it deserves to win,[Pg 220]It cares not what on earth may be their fate,Whose sun it was, where centred their sole gaze.Such terror, so perpetual warfare in,Changed from my former self, I live of lateAs one who midway doubts, and fears and strays.
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