Poetry
A Lover's Complaint
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA long poem in which a heartbroken young woman recounts, to a passing stranger, exactly how she was persuaded into ruin by a beautiful and practiced liar. It is bleaker and less forgiving than most of the sonnets it is sometimes bound alongside. Even Shakespeare, it turns out, could write about being deceived without offering the deceived party a witty comeback.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 10 minutes
- Where to find it
- On the Poetry shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #1137. In the public domain in the United States.