Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 144 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 144 |
1 Two loves I have of comfort and despair, 2 Which like two spirits do suggest me still: 3 The better angel is a man right fair, 4 The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. 5 To win me soon to hell, my female evil 6 Tempteth my better angel from my side, 7 And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, 8 Wooing his purity with her foul pride. 9 And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend 10 Suspect I may, but not directly tell, 11 But being both from me, both to each friend, 12 I guess one angel in another's hell. 13 Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt, 14 Till my bad angel fire my good one out. |
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