The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part II: To Juliet: XXIX
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
TO HER WHO WOULD COMFORT HIM
I did not ask your pity, dear. Your zeal
I know. It cannot cure me of my woes.
And you, in your sweet happiness, who knows,
Deserve it rather I should pity feel
For what the coming years from you conceal.
I did but cry, thou dear Samaritan,
Out of my bitterness of soul. Each man
Has his own sorrow treading on his heel,
Ready to strike him, and must keep his shield
To his own back. Fate's arrows thickly fly,
And, if they strike not now, will strike at even.
And so I ask no pity. On life's field
The wounded crawl together, but their cry
Is not to one another but to Heaven.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 123 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
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