Sweet shades, why doe you seeke to giwe delight
To me, who deeme delight in this wilde place:
But torment, sorrow, and mine owne disgrace,
To taste of joy, or your vaine pleasing sight?
Show them your pleasures who saw never night
Of griefe, where joyings fawning smiling face
Appears as day, where griefe found never space:
Yet for a sigh, a groane, or envies spite.
But O: on me a world of woes doe lye,
Or els on me all harmes strive to relye,
And to attend like servants bound to me.
Heate in desire, while frosts of care I prove,
Wanting my love, yet surfet doe with love,
Burne, and yet freeze, better in Hell to be.
(Mary Wroth)
More Poetry from Mary Wroth:
Mary Wroth Poems based on Topics: Love, Joy & Excitement, Sense & Perception, Sadness, Place, Desire, Space, World, Hell- A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love (Mary Wroth Poems)
- 42 (Song 6) (Mary Wroth Poems)
- 7 (Song 1) (Mary Wroth Poems)
- 94 (Mary Wroth Poems)
- 58 (Mary Wroth Poems)
- 14 (Song 2) (Mary Wroth Poems)
Readers Who Like This Poem Also Like:
Based on Topics: Love Poems, World Poems, Sadness Poems, Joy & Excitement Poems, Sense & Perception Poems, Place Poems, Hell Poems, Desire Poems, Space PoemsBased on Keywords: deeme, heate, harmes, groane, surfet, joyings
- Parisina (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
- One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue - Part I (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
- The Golden Legend: VI. The School Of Salerno (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
- Of The Nature Of Things: Book II - Part 03 - Atomic Forms And Their Combinations (Lucretius Poems)
- The School Of The Heart. Lesson The Second. (Henry Alford Poems)