<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397166" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shall I Wasting in Despair</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I wasting in despair<br>Die because a woman's fair?<br>Or make pale my cheeks with care<br>'Cause another's rosy are?<br>Be she fairer than the day,<br>Or the flow'ry meads in May,<br>If she be not so to me,<br>What care I how fair she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall my heart be griev'd or pin'd<br>'Cause I see a woman kind?<br>Or a well-disposed nature<br>Joined with a lovely feature?<br>Be she meeker, kinder, than<br>Turtle dove or pelican,<br>If she be not so to me,<br>What care I how kind she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall a woman's virtues move<br>Me to perish for her love?<br>Or her well-deserving known<br>Make me quite forget mine own?<br>Be she with that goodness blest<br>Which may gain her name of best<br>If she be not such to me,<br>What care I, how good she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Cause her fortune seems too high<br>Shall I play the fool and die?<br>Those that bear a noble mind,<br>Where they want of riches find,<br>Think what with them they would<br>That without them dare to woo;<br>And unless that mind I see,<br>What care I how great she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great, or good, or kind, or fair,<br>I will ne'er the more despair;<br>If she love me, this believe,<br>I will die ere she shall grieve;<br>If she slight me when I woo,<br>I can scorn and let her go;<br>For if she be not for me,<br>What care I for whom she be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Wither">George Wither</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397166" data-title="Shall I Wasting in Despair de George Wither" data-description="Shall I wasting in despair Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be? Shall my heart be gri..."></div> </div> </div>

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