William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet CL
O! from what
power hast thou this powerful might,
With insufficiency
my heart to sway?
To make me give the
lie to my true sight,
And swear that brightness
doth not grace the day?
Whence hast thou this
becoming of things ill,
That in the very refuse
of thy deeds
There is such strength
and warrantise of skill,
That, in my mind,
thy worst all best exceeds?
Who taught thee how
to make me love thee more,
The more I hear and
see just cause of hate?
O! though I love what
others do abhor,
With others thou shouldst
not abhor my state:
If thy unworthiness rais'd love in me,
More worthy I to be belov'd of thee.
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