Quotes by Petrarch

11 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.— filed under Affliction

Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate, A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws And skies, with notes well tuned to her sad state.— filed under Birds-Nightingale

Orders Gray. For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, And who can rightly die needs no delay.— filed under Death

Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh- To join blest spirits in celestial lands!— filed under Desire

The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, nor winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.— filed under Eternity

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.— filed under Eternity

Polyhymnia. An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.— filed under Peace

Blue Stocking. My soul has rest, sweet sigh! alone in thee.— filed under Sighs

Behold who ever wept, and in his tears Was happier far than others in their smiles.— filed under Tears

Nothing Pure. For virtue only finds eternal Fame.— filed under Virtue

I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue.— filed under Weakness

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