E.O. Poems

Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Washington State University

E.O. POEMS

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The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship’s Page of Oxford’s Poems

“Grief of Mind”

What plague is greater than the grief of mind?
The grief of mind that eats in every vein;
In every vein that leaves such clots behind;
Such clots behind as breed such bitter pain;
So bitter pain that none shall ever find,
What plague is greater than the grief of mind.

(in Clark 20-21; cf. Ogburn and Ogburn 52; Ogburn 583)