Love

The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, L: The same continued

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840–1922

From The Poetical Works (1914), vol. I

Love

What have I done ? What gross impiety
Prompted my hand thus against God and good ?
Was there not joy on Earth enough for me
That I must scale the Heaven where you stood,
And with my sinful blood pollute your blood ?
You were the type of wise sweet sanctity,
Of that unearthly half of womanhood
Which well redeems the rest. Oh, Juliet, we
Sinned in a temple, and our tears to-day
Appeal in vain to Heaven which dares not hear.
God is not always mocked. And thus we pay
Our uttermost debt unheeded, tear on tear
And scoff on scoff and sin heaped up on sin,
While there is justice on the Earth to men.

MLA

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, L: The same continued.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/107/.

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Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, L: The same continued.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/107/.

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