Classic Poem

Virtue, beauty, and speech, did strike, wound, charm,
My heart, eyes, ears, with wonder, love, delight:
First, second, last, did bind, enforce, and arm,
His works, shows, suits, with wit, grace, and vow's might.

Thus honour, liking, trust, much, far, and deep,
Held, pierced, possessed, my judgement, sense, and will,
Till wrong, contempt, deceit, did grow, steal, creep,
Bands, favour, faith, to break, defile, and kill.

Then grief, unkindness, proof, took, kindled, taught,
Well-grounded, noble, due, spite, rage, disdain,
But ah, alas! (in vain) my mind, sight, thought,
Doth him, his face, his words, leave, shun, refrain,
For no thing, time, nor place, can loose, quench, ease,
Mine own, embraced, sought, knot, fire, disease.