The Thief

Thou robb’st my days of business and delights,

Of sleep thou robb’st my nights ;

Ah, lovely thief, what wilt thou do?

What? rob me of heaven too?

Even in my prayers thou hauntest me:

And I, with wild idolatry,

Begin to God, and end them all to thee.

Is it a sin to love, that it should thus

Like an ill conscience torture us?

Whate’er I do, where’er I go-

None guiltless e’er was haunted so!-

Still, still, methinks, thy face I view,

And still thy shape does me pursue,

As if, not you me, but I had murdered you.

From books I strive some remedy to take,

But thy name all the letters make;

Whate’er ’tis writ, I find thee there,

Like points and commas everywhere.

Me blessed for this let no man hold,

For I, as Midas did of old,

Perish by turning every thing to gold.

What do I seek, alas, or why do I

Attempt in vain from thee to fly?

For, making thee my deity,

I gave thee then ubiquity.

My pains resemble hell in this:

The divine presence there too is,

But to torment men, not to give them bliss.

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Poems in English 

• Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Orpheus by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Love by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• It was a Lover and his Lass by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Hark! Hark! The Lark by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• From you have I been absent in the spring… (Sonnet 98) by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fidele by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fear No More by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fairy Land v by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fairy Land iv by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fairy Land iii by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Fairy Land ii by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Dirge by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Carpe Diem by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Bridal Song by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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