Poems of Love

We're on a roll with love poems! William Shakespeare wrote The Sonnets: Poems of Love. Sonnets are 14 lines usually in iambic pentameter and usually rhymed.

"Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their body's force,
Some in their garments, though new fangled ill,
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest,
But these particulars are not my measure;
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garment's cost,
Of more delight than hawks or horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:
---Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take
---All this away, and me most wretched make."

William Shakespeare
The Sonnets: Poems of Love , pg 91

(PR2848 A2 B837 1980 )