Robert Sidney

Sonnet 5. Of travails past oft when i thinking am

Of travails past oft when I thinking am,
Of days in sorrows spent, of easeless nights,
As they which show scars of bloody fights
Glory to me of my love’s wounds I frame.

Thus on my ruins do I build my fame,
Thus do my miseries appear delights,
Till some new hurts make my benumbèd sprites
Feel that love’s blows are not so pleasant game. 

Then full of pain, my too fond will I curse,
And cry at her as than a tiger worse,
And do forswear all bondage more to love;

Heavy with grief, till I mine eyes do heave
Unto her face, whence all joys I receive,
And think all nothing that for her I prove.