Sonnet 29
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT · Take All My Loves - 9 Shakespeare Sonnets 2016 · Track 09 of 16
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope Featured like him, like him with friends possessed Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope With what I most enjoy contented least
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising Haply I think on thee and then my state Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings