Take All My Loves (Sonnet 40)

Take All My Loves (Sonnet 40) - Rufus Wainwright/Marius De Vries

Take all my loves my love yea take them all

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before

No love my love that thou mayst true love call

All mine was thine before thou hadst this more

Then if for my love thou my love receivest

I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest

But yet be blamed if thou this self deceivest

By wilful taste of what thyself refusest

I do forgive thy robb'ry gentle theif

Although thou steal thee all my poverty

And yet love knows it is a greater grief

To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury

I do forgive thy robb'ry gentle theif

Although thou steal thee all my poverty

And yet love knows it is a greater grief

To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury

I do forgive thy robb'ry gentle theif

Although thou steal thee all my poverty

Take all my loves my love yea take them all

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before

No love my love that thou mayst true love call

All mine was thine before thou hadst this more

Then if for my love thou my love receivest

I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest

But yet be blamed if thou this self deceivest

By wilful taste of what thyself refusest

I do forgive thy robb'ry gentle theif

Although thou steal thee all my poverty

And yet love knows it is a greater grief

To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury

Lascivious grace in whom all I'll well shows

Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes

And yet love knows it is a greater grief

To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury