English poem
Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn, And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd, And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd, And strength by limping sway disabled And art made tongue-tied by authority, And folly--doctor-like--controlling skill, And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captain ill: Tir'd with all these, from these would I be gone, Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.
More by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
- Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now
- Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
- Sonnet 67: Ah! wherefore with infection should he live
- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
- Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface