ON SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS (1) - Romeo and Juliet
ON SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS
Love in Lamentation - Romeo and Juliet
Written by George Wordsworth on 27th November 2016
O thus sweet is thy passion for me
I swear my life to the virtue of thee.
Partaken we both in the Forbidden Fruit
From the Tree of Love with shallow root.
Upon no God's wrath took we our oath,
But by trivial enmity is our bound loathed.
See for what our kinsmen wail and joy?
Woe to those whose love-hate is but a toy!
Fighting the fate whose judgment is to forsake,
Our time and places ever yield to mistakes.
To blood and sword why we have to resort,
Upsetting our eternity with never-ending mort?
In the Realm hereafter let's reconcile in peace,
Lest the bitter concord of our families shall ever cease.