Canzone
Canzone - meaning Summary
Vanished Years and Regret
The speaker laments a life spent under restless desires and unfulfilled hopes. Looking back, he finds no day that truly belonged to him, only passions—love, yearning, lament—that kept him from what is true and good. He describes a progressive decline: sunshine fading, shadows lengthening, and a sense of daily wasting away. The tone is remorseful and resigned, focused on loss of agency and spiritual exhaustion.
Read Complete AnalysesAh me! ah me! when thinking of the years, The vanished years, alas, I do not find Among them all one day that was my own! Fallacious hope; desires of the unknown, Lamenting, loving, burning, and in tears (For human passions all have stirred my mind), Have held me, now I feel and know, confined Both from the true and good still far away. I perish day by day; The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fail, infirm and weary.
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