Explore "Io MI Rivolgo Indietro a Ciascun Passo" by Francesco Petrarca on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
ON QUITTING LAURA.
With weary frame which painfully I bear, / I look behind me at each onward pace, / And then take comfort from your native air, / Which following fans my melancholy face; / The far way, my frail life, the cherish'd fair / Whom thus I leave, as then my thoughts retrace, / I fix my feet in silent pale despair, / And on the earth my tearful eyes abase.