| Samuel Waddington, comp. The Sonnets of Europe. 1888. | | | | Signs of Love | | By Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374) |
| | Translated by Charles Bagot Cayley
IF amorous faith, a heart of guileless ways, | |
| Soft languors, courteously controlled desire, | |
| And virtuous will, kindled with noble fire, | |
| And lengthened wanderings in a lightless maze; | |
| If thoughts, which evermore the brow displays, | 5 |
| Or words that faint and brokenly suspire, | |
| Still checked with fear and shame; if hues no higher | |
| Than the pale violet hath, or love displays; | |
| If holding some one than one’s self more dear, | |
| If sorrowing and sighing evermore, | 10 |
| If chewing grief, and rage, and many a cross, | |
| If burning far away, and freezing near, | |
| Are signs that Love consumes me to the core, | |
| Yours, lady, is the fault and mine the loss. | | | | |
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