Poetry Love

Love - Sonnet (I)

Stefano d'Urbino AS XXXII

• Best of all is when love is requited
• Though better unrequite than not at all
• And as aside a false love is love blighted
• To say you love and not do is to fall;

• For friendship starts by fanning little flames
• Grow'st stronger still, as deeds and time make fire
• Consum'd friends thus litter charred remains
• When deeds of friendship grow into desire;

• Most hopeless painful sound of all the world
• Is hearing one you love say they do not
• But blame and guilt and pressure ought be furled
• For tragic ends to dreams come with our lot;

• In fact, the simplest known of loving suit
• Is heartbreak'd unrequitement may result.