Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame <br />These sad neglected notes for her dear sake? <br />Why should I offer up onto her name <br />The sweetest sacrifice my youth can make? <br />Why should I strive to make her live for ever, <br />That never deigns to give me joy to live? <br />Why should m'afflicted Muse so much endeavor, <br />Such honor unto cruelty to give? <br />If her defects have purchas'd her this fame, <br />What should her virtues do, her smiles, her love? <br />If this her worst, how should her best enflame? <br />What passions would her milder favors move? <br />Favors (I think) would sense quite overcome, <br />And that makes happy Lovers ever dumb.<br /><br />Samuel Daniel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xvii-why-should-i-sing-in-verse/
