Mary Wroth Poems on Hope Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

In this strange Labyrinth how shall I turne,Wayes are on all sids while the way I misse:If to the right ...

All Night I weepe, all Day I cry, Ay me,I still doe wish, though yet deny, ay me;I sigh, I ...

Stay my thoughts do not aspire,To vaine hopes of high desire;See you not all meanes bereft,To injoye no joye is ...

My paine still smother'd in my grieved brest,Seekes for some ease, yet cannot passage finde,To be discharg'd of this unwellcome ...

O stay mine eyes shed not these fruitlesse teares,Since hope is past to win you back againe,That treasure which being ...

How many eyes (poore Love) hast thou to guardThee from thy most desired wish, and end?Is it because some say ...

O Strive not still to heape disdaine on me,Nor pleasure take, your cruelty to showOn haplesse me, on whom all ...

Like to the Indians scorched with the Sunne,The Sunne which they doe as their God adore:So am I us'd by ...

Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part,Remember well thy selfe, and think on me;Shine in those eyes ...

Let griefe as farre be from your dearest breastAs I doe wish, or in my hands to ease;Then should it ...

Bee you all pleas'd, your pleasures grieve not me;Doe you delight? I envy not your joy:Have you content? contentment with ...

False hope, which feeds but to destroy, and spillWhat it first breeds, unnatural to the birthOf thine own womb; conceiving ...

Fie tedious Hope, why doe you still rebell?Is it not yet enough you flatter'd me,But cuningly you seeke to use ...

After long trouble in a tedious way,Of Loves unrest, laid downe to ease my paine,Hoping for rest, new torments I ...

Mary Wroth Poems on Hope (14 Poems)