"If Love's a Sweet Passion" from Henry Purcell's
The Fairy Queen (act 3):
Quote:
If Love's a Sweet Passion, why does it torment?
If a Bitter, oh tell me whence comes my content?
Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,
Or grieve at my Fate, when I know 'tis in vain?
Yet so pleasing the Pain is, so soft is the Dart,
That at once it both wounds me, and Tickles my Heart.
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(I got it off Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_(love))
I think it's an amazingly accurate poem. Wondered what you thought about it - hope you can just take it in and appreciate it.