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Saturday, 21 December 2013

Two loves I have of comfort and despair


Sonnet 144

Two loves I have of comfort and despair
«William Shakespeare»


Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
 Which like two spirits do suggest me still,
 The better angel is a man right fair:
 The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
 To win me soon to hell my female evil,
 Tempteth my better angel from my side,
 And would corrupt my saint to be a devil:
 Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
 And whether that my angel be turned fiend,
 Suspect I may, yet not directly tell,
 But being both from me both to each friend,
 I guess one angel in another's hell.
 Yet this shall I ne'er know but live in doubt,
 Till my bad angel fire my good one out.


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