Sonnet XC
Read 'Sonnet XC' by 'Francesco Petrarch' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
SONNET XC.
Qui dove mezzo son, Sennuccio mio.
THE MERE SIGHT OF VAUCLUSE MAKES HIM FORGET ALL THE PERILS OF HIS JOURNEY.
Friend, on this spot, I life but half endure(Would I were wholly here and you content),Where from the storm and wind my course I bent,Which suddenly had left the skies obscure.Fain would I tell—for here I feel me sure—Why lightnings now no fear to me present;And why unmitigated, much less spent,E'en as before my fierce desires allure.Soon as I reach'd these realms of love, and sawWhere, sweet and pure, to life my Laura came,Who calms the air, at rest the thunder lays;Love in my soul, where she alone gives law,Quench'd the cold fear and kindled the fast flame;What were it then on her bright eyes to gaze!
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