LOVE'S LORDSHIP. <br /> <br />A che più debb' io. <br /> <br />Why should I seek to ease intense desire <br />With still more tears and windy words of grief, <br />When heaven, or late or soon, sends no relief <br />To souls whom love hath robed around with fire? <br />Why need my aching heart to death aspire, <br />When all must die? Nay, death beyond belief <br />Unto these eyes would be both sweet and brief, <br />Since in my sum of woes all joys expire! <br />Therefore because I cannot shun the blow <br />I rather seek, say who must rule my breast, <br />Gliding between her gladness and her woe? <br />If only chains and bands can make me blest, <br />No marvel if alone and bare I go <br />An arméd Knight's captive and slave confessed.<br /><br />Michelangelo Buonarroti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/xxxi-to-tommaso-de-cavalieri/
