I HATE you with a necessary hate.
  First, I sought patience: passionate was she:
  My patience turned in very scorn of me,
  That I should dare forgive a sin so great,
  As this, through which I sit disconsolate;
  Mourning for that live soul, I used to see;
  Soul of a saint, whose friend I used to be:
  Till you came by! a cold, corrupting, fate.
  Why come you now? You, whom I cannot cease
  With pure and perfect hate to hate? Go, ring
  The death-bell with a deep, triumphant toll!
  Say you, my friend sits by me still? Ah, peace!
  Call you this thing my friend? this nameless thing?
  This living body, hiding its dead soul?


 



