Synopsis "Complete Poems (British Poets)"
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: COMPLETE POEMS This book features all of William Shakespeare's poetry, including the Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece and The Passionate Pilgrim. Each poem is printed on its own on the page, without footnotes and annotations. Includes a new gallery of many illustrations of Shakespeare and his art, and a bibliography of references. 356 pages. www.crmoon.com This is from 'The Passionate Pilgrim': Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, That like two spirits do suggest me still; My better angel is a man right fair, My worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her fair pride. And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend, Suspect I may, yet not directly tell: For being both to me, both to each friend, I guess one angel in another's hell; The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt, Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
