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Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare




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                      SONNET 29
 

When, in disgrace with  and men's eyes,                                   

I all beweep my outcast state

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless

And look upon  and curse my ,

Wishing me to one more rich in hope,

Featured like him, like him with possess'd,

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,

With what I most contented least;

Yet in these myself almost despising,

Haply I on thee, and then my state,

Like to the lark at of arising

From sullen , sings hymns at heaven's gate;

For thy sweet remember'd such wealth

That then I scorn to my state with .
 
(Modern English Paraphrase here)