to write a poem <br />for a woman's favour: <br />it is fraught with misery and pain <br /> <br />with a poet man's heart and <br />stout esteem to lose <br />and his lady's disdain to gain<br /><br />Rev. Dr. A. Jacob Hassler<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/courtship-2/