Michael Drayton - Sonnet XLI: Why Do I Speak of Joy

Michael Drayton - Sonnet XLI: Why Do I Speak of Joy

Love's Lunacy br br Why do I speak of joy, or write of love, br When my heart is the very den of horror, br And in my soul the pains of Hell I prove, br With all his torments and infernal terror? br What should I say? What yet remains to do? br My brain is dry with weeping all too long, br My sighs be spent in uttering my woe, br And I want words wherewith to tell my wrong; br But, still distracted in Love's lunacy, br And, bedlam-like, thus raging in my grief, br Now rail upon her hair, then on her eye, br Now call her Goddess, then I call her thief, br Now I deny her, then I do confess her, br Now do I curse her, then again I bless her.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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