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A Lover’s Complaint

by William Shakespeare

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Beside a river, a listener watches a young woman tearing up letters and breaking rings. An old herdsman asks her grief, and she tells of the charming youth who wooed her with words, tears and gifts from other conquests, and then abandoned her, confessing she would fall for him again.

A rarely read Shakespeare poem in rhyme royal, for anyone who knows the Sonnets. Download the free EPUB.

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