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The Sonnets CXLIV - Two loves I have of comfort and despair

By William Shakespeare

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Two loves I have of comfort and despair,     Which like two spirits do suggest me still:     The better angel is a man right fair,     The worser spirit a woman colourd 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 foul pride.     And whether that my angel be turnd fiend,     Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;     But being both from me, both to each friend,     I guess one angel in anothers hell:     Yet this shall I neer know, but live in doubt,     Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

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William Shakespeare

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 154 sonnets and narrative poems including "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," alongside 37 plays that remain central to world literature.

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