Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Friendship | | “When in disgrace” | | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | Sonnet XXIX.
WHEN in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, | |
| I all alone beweep my outcast state, | |
| And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries, | |
| And look upon myself, and curse my fate, | |
| Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, | 5 |
| Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, | |
| Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope, | |
| With what I most enjoy contented least; | |
| Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, | |
| Haply I think on thee, and then my state | 10 |
| (Like to the lark at break of day arising | |
| From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate. | |
| For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, | |
| That then I scorn to change my state with kings. | | | | |
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