Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;
Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express
The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
If I might teach thee wit, better it were,
Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so;
As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,
No news but health from their physicians know;
For, if I should despair, I should grow mad,
And in my madness might speak ill of thee;
Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,
Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be.
That I may not be so, nor thou belied,
Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.
The Sonnets Cxl - Be Wise As Thou Art Cruel; Do Not Press
William Shakespeare
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Poem topics: despair, heart, pain, sick, sorrow, world, tongue, wise, wide, health, express, straight, patience, speak, teach, thine, love, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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