When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare

6. June 2007, 7:27 Uhrwilliam shakespeare, tearinabeana

Let’s have one from old Will, shall we?

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
By William Shakespeare

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
   I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
   And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
   Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
   With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
   Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
   From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
      For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
      That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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