William Shakespeare - 58 - A Lover's Complaint - William Squire torrent

From off a hill whose concave womb re-worded
A plaintful story from a sistering vale,
My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,
And down I laid to list the sad-tun’d tale;
Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,
Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,
Storming her world with sorrow’s wind and rain.


A beautiful English Renaissance poem, appended to the first edition of the sonnets and probably by Shakespeare himself. Here it is read by William Squire and Joan Hart - an Argo recording from the early 1960s. Kindly seed.