<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=512616" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XVII: Why Should I Sing in Verse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame <br>These sad neglected notes for her dear sake? <br>Why should I offer up onto her name <br>The sweetest sacrifice my youth can make? <br>Why should I strive to make her live for ever, <br>That never deigns to give me joy to live? <br>Why should m'afflicted Muse so much endeavor, <br>Such honor unto cruelty to give? <br>If her defects have purchas'd her this fame, <br>What should her virtues do, her smiles, her love? <br>If this her worst, how should her best enflame? <br>What passions would her milder favors move? <br>Favors (I think) would sense quite overcome, <br>And that makes happy Lovers ever dumb.</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=512616" data-title="Sonnet XVII: Why Should I Sing in Verse de Samuel Daniel" data-description="Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame These sad neglected notes for her dear sake? Why should I offer up onto her name The sweetest sacrifice my youth can make? Why should I strive to make her live for ever, That never deigns to give..."></div> </div> </div>

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