Summary: Love expressed.<br><br> ⁓The Voice before the Void<br> “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”<br> William Shakespeare<br> When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,<br><br> I all alone beweep my outcast state,<br><br> And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,<br><br> And look upon myself and curse my fate,<br><br> Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,<br><br> Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,<br><br> Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,<br><br> With what I most enjoy contented least;<br><br> Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,<br><br> Haply I think on thee, and then my state,<br><br> (Like to the lark at break of day arising<br><br> From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;<br> For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings<br><br> That then I scorn to change my state with kings.<br>
