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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by EDWARD HERBERT Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus ends my love, but this doth grieve me most
Last Line: It be a temple, but without a saint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
First Line: Thus ends my love, but this doth grieve me most
Last Line: It be a temple, but without a saint.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
THUS ends my love, but this doth grieve me most,
That so it ends; but that ends too; this yet,
Besides the wishes, hopes and time I lost,
Troubles my mind awhile, that I am set
Free, worse than deni'd: I can neither boast
Choice nor success, as my case is, nor get
Pardon from myself that I loved not
A better mistress, or her worse; this debt
Only's her due still, that she be forgot
Ere chang'd, lest I love none; this done, the taint
Of foul inconstancy is clear'd at least
In me, there only rests but to unpaint
Her form in my mind, that so dispossess'd,
It be a temple, but without a saint.
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