grievous

I am sick of singing; the bays burn deep and chafe: I am fain

To rest a little from praise and grievous pleasure and pain.

For the Gods we know not of, who give us our daily breath,

And wished the goddess long might feel love's fire.

Ceres, what sports[418] to thee so grievous were,

As in thy sacrifice we them forbear?

perceived, I determined that I would make a

grievous sonnet" thereof; the which I will

write here, because it hath certain words in

is evil; seeing that the more homage his

servants pay to him, the more grievous and

When sudden dropping of a silver dew

(O grievous chance!) gan quench those precious flames;

That it, which earst** so pleasant sent did yeld,

Plucking my sleeve, the eager shades were with me where I went.

I paused at every grievous door,

And harked a moment, holding up my hand,--and for a space

they laboured: they extended them to their temporal concerns, and

sometimes unfortunately occasioned grievous civil dissensions, and

much bloodshed. Something of this kind took place in Japan; where the

Fathers we _must_ have, wife and child,

And grievous is the grief for these;

This pain alone, which _must_ be borne,