Build your own John Dowland haiku. 5-syllable lines in plain font, 7-syllable lines in italic. Have fun!?
Never may my woes
Exiled forever
Learn to condemn light
Woeful wretched wight
I must complain, yet
Poor souls sigh and weep
Weary weeping eyes
Now left and forlorn
Thy tormenting fears
Let me live forlorn
My fortune is thrown
I may cease to mourn
Should I aggrieved then
Pain had governed me
Lights, shine you no more
Light doth shame disclose
Wherein I suffer
Let me living die
What can stay my thoughts
Passions of desire
Image of true death
Sit, sigh, weep, faint, die
Help now or never
Turns mine eyes to floods
Can no loss repair
Still on sorrow feed
Of all joys deprivéd
Come, O Sleep, come
Flow my tears, fall from your springs
Down vain lights, shine you no more
Be relieved, pity is fled
Tears, sighs, groans, my weary days
In deadly pain and mis’ry
Fear, grief, pain for my deserts
Are my hopes since hope is gone
Shall I straight yield to despair
Love lives not when hope is gone
No night is dark enough for
As a wretch by fate forlorn
Who giveth all hath nothing
Now, o, now I needs must part
Joy once fled cannot return
Absence can no joy impart
Love divided loveth none
Gone are all my joys at once
I loved thee and thee alone
In whose love I joyéd once
Never shall affection die
Die I do to part with you
Love and I shall die together
Sad despair doth drive me hence
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