Every Monday and Wednesday through Valentine’s Day, we will be bringing you one of our favorite love poems of all-time. Today, we present Mary Wroth’s “A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love #77”, a description of love’s ability to lead us to a better, happier life. In the poem, Wroth worries about the path she should take. She ultimately realizes that with the decision to love, she will be strong enough to conquer any path. Why do you think Wroth chooses love? Would you do the same thing? Tell us in the comments below!

Mary Wroth “A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love #77″

In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?
Ways are on all sides, while the way I miss:
If to the right hand, there in love I burn;
Let me go forward, therein danger is;

If to the left, suspicion hinders bliss,
Let me turn back, shame cries I ought return,
Nor faint, though crosses with my fortunes kiss;
Stand still is harder, although sure to mourn.

Thus let me take the right, or left hand way,
Go forward or stand still, or back retire:
I must these doubts endure without allay
Or help, but travail find for my best hire.

Yet that which most my troubled sense doth move,
Is to leave all and take the thread of Love.

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