<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512599" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XI: Tears, Vows, and Prayers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tears, vows, and prayers win the hardest heart: <br>Tears, vows, and prayers have I spent in vain; <br>Tears cannot soften flint, nor vows convert; <br>Prayers prevail not with a quaint disdain. <br>I lose my tears where I have lost my love; <br>I vow my faith where faith is not regarded; <br>I pray in vain a merciless to move; <br>So rare a faith ought better be rewarded. <br>Yet though I cannot win her will with tears, <br>Though my soul's idol scorneth all my vows, <br>Though all my prayers be to so deaf ears, <br>No favor though the cruel Fair allows. <br>Yet will I weep, vow, pray to cruel she; <br>Flint, frost, disdain wears, melts, and yields we see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samuel+Daniel">Samuel Daniel</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=512599" data-title="Sonnet XI: Tears, Vows, and Prayers de Samuel Daniel" data-description="Tears, vows, and prayers win the hardest heart: Tears, vows, and prayers have I spent in vain; Tears cannot soften flint, nor vows convert; Prayers prevail not with a quaint disdain. I lose my tears where I have lost my love; I vow my faith w..."></div> </div> </div>

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