Sonnet 29
Praise and Beauty
- 1 When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
- 2 I all alone beweep my outcast state,
- 3 And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
- 4 And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
- 5 Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
- 6 Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,
- 7 Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
- 8 With what I most enjoy contented least;
- 9 Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
- 10 Haply I think on thee,— and then my state,
- 11 Like to the lark at break of day arising
- 12 From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate,;
- 13 For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
- 14 That then I scorn to change my state with kings.