Love

Sonnet (What have I left to doe but dye)

by Charles Cotton 1630–1687

From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

Love

What have I left to doe but dye,
Since Hope, my old Companion,
That train'd me from my Infancy,
My Friend, my Comforter is gone?

Oh fawning, false, deceiving Friend!
Accursed be thy Flatteries,
Which treacherously did intend
I should be wretched to be wise:

And so I am; for being taught
To know thy guiles, have only wrought
My greater misery and pain:

My misery is yet so great,
That, though I have found out the Cheat,
I wish for thee again in vain.

MLA

Cotton, Charles. “Sonnet (What have I left to doe but dye).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/2/.

Chicago

Cotton, Charles. “Sonnet (What have I left to doe but dye).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/2/.

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