A Poem for a Thursday #243

It is my considered opinion that it is impossible to feature too many Shakespeare sonnets. Therefore, I am providing another one for your reading pleasure today. Recently, Judi Dench was in the news for her recitation of this sonnet on a TV show. I’ll link the video for you. Judi Dench and Shakespeare; what a wonderful combination.

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 my self and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friend's possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least,
Yet in these thoughts my self 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.

Sonnet 29
Shakespeare