He was a prince, a born prince <br />The model for youth, but so tragic <br />The delight of the world, but a failure <br />Such is goethe's estimate, of Hamlets charactor <br />Some regard the picture, as too flattering <br />Hamlet says of himself, to ophelia <br />Self depreciation probable ironical <br />Born to the bitterness of self approach <br />For wasn't he a beautiful, pure and noble <br />And most moraly blessed soul <br /> <br />Written Tuesday May 2005<br /><br />Allan James Saywell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/weakness-of-hamlet/
