A Lover's Complaint - a poem by William Shakespeare
A Lover's Complaint
FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.
Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun,
Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
The carcass of beauty spent and done:
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.
Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laundering the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears;
As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe,
In clamours of all size, both high and low.
Sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride,
As they did battery to the spheres intend;
Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
To the orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
To every place at once, and, nowhere fix'd,
The mind and sight distractedly commix'd.
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.
Upon her head a platted hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun,
Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw
The carcass of beauty spent and done:
Time had not scythed all that youth begun,
Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,
Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.
Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laundering the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears;
As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe,
In clamours of all size, both high and low.
Sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride,
As they did battery to the spheres intend;
Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
To the orbed earth; sometimes they do extend
Their view right on; anon their gazes lend
To every place at once, and, nowhere fix'd,
The mind and sight distractedly commix'd.
Charles Dickens Quotes (C)
(C)
"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."
[by Charles Dickens]
"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows and china."
[by Charles Dickens]
William Shakespeare Quotes (I)
[I]
"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
[by William Shakespeare]
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
[by William Shakespeare]
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
[by William Shakespeare]
Charles Dickens Quotes (A)
(A)
"A boy's story is the best that is ever told."
[by Charles Dickens]
"Accidents will occur in the best regulated families."
[by Charles Dickens]
"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."
"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
[by Charles Dickens]
"A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match."
[by Charles Dickens]
William Shakespeare Quotes (H)
(H)
" Having nothing, nothing can he lose. "
[by William Shakespeare]
"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."
[by William Shakespeare]
"He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural. "
[by William Shakespeare]
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. "
[by William Shakespeare]
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. "
[by William Shakespeare]
"He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. "
[by William Shakespeare]
William Shakespeare Quotes (G)
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
[by William Shakespeare]
"God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!"
[by William Shakespeare]
William Shakespeare Quotes (F)
"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
[by William Shakespeare]
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Farewell, fair cruelty."
[by William Shakespeare]
William Shakespeare Quotes (E)
"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
[by William Shakespeare]
William Shakespeare Quotes (C)
[C]
"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
[by William Shakespeare]
William Shakespeare Quotes (B) .
[B]
- "Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
- [by William Shakespeare]
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
[by William Shakespeare]
William Shakespeare Quotes (A)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
[by William Shakespeare]
[by William Shakespeare]
"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. "
[by William Shakespeare]
[by William Shakespeare]
"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. "
[by William Shakespeare]
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain."
[by William Shakespeare]
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. "
[by William Shakespeare]
List the works of Charles Dickens
- A Christmas Carol
- A Message from the Sea
- A Tale of Two Cities
- All The Year Round
- American Notes
- Barnaby Rudge
- Bleak House
- David Copperfield
- Dombey and Son
- Great Expectations
- Hard Times
- Holiday Romance
- Hunted Down
- Little Dorrit
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- Master Humphrey's Clock
- Mudfog and Other Sketches
- Nicholas Nickleby
- Oliver Twist
- Our Mutual Friend
- Reprinted Pieces
- Sketches by Boz
- Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
- The Battle of Life
- The Chimes
- The Cricket on the Hearth
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
- The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- The Pickwick Papers
- The Uncommercial Traveller
Nonfiction
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