Sonnet 29

Sunday morning sonnet  J

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XXIX

  When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

  I all alone beweep my outcast state,

  And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

  And look upon myself, and curse my fate,

  Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

  Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,

  Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,

  With what I most enjoy contented least;

  Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,

  Haply I think on thee,-- and then my state,

  Like to the lark at break of day arising

  From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;

    For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings

    That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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The yet at the beginning of the third quatrain marks an about face, the and then in the next line marks its confirmation, and the for at the beginning of the closing couplet marks its explanation, and the that then at the beginning of the last line consolidates the explanation.

There will be an evening sonnet  J  when I return from Ann Arbor after dropping off my daughter.