Love

Fidessa: Sonnet 60

by Bartholomew Griffin fl. 1596

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1897)

Love

O let me sigh, weep, wail, and cry no more;
Or let me sigh, weep, wail, cry more and more!
Yea, let me sigh, weep, wail, cry evermore,
For she doth pity my complaints no more
Than cruel pagan or the savage Moor;
But still doth add unto my torments more,
Which grievous are to me by so much more
As she inflicts them and doth wish them more.
O let thy mercy, merciless, be never more!
So shall sweet death to me be welcome, more
Than is to hungry beasts the grassy moor,
As she that to affliction adds yet more,
Becomes more cruel by still adding more!
Weary am I to speak of this word "more;"
Yet never weary she, to plague me more!

MLA

Griffin, Bartholomew. “Fidessa: Sonnet 60.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/griffin_b/59/.

Chicago

Griffin, Bartholomew. “Fidessa: Sonnet 60.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/griffin_b/59/.

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