Classic Poem

Define my love, and tell the joyes of heaven,
Expresse my woes, and shew the paynes of hell,
Declare what fate unlucky starres have given,
And aske a world upon my life to dwell.

Make knowne that fayth, unkindnes could not move,
Compare my worth with others base desert,
Let vertue be the tuch-stone of my love,
So may the heavens reade wonders in my hart.

Behold the Clowdes which have eclips'd my sunne,
And view the crosses which my course doth let,
Tell mee, if ever since the world begunne,
So faire a Morning had so foule a set?
And by all meanes, let black unkindnes prove,
The patience of so rare divine a love.