Summary

The speaker welcomes night to her mind, which is longing for it. She compares herself to night's heaviness and sadness, stating that she has the same temperament as night itself. Her "unredrest" wrongs, she states, are as dark as night (5). She has no joy, only cares. She asks the night to join with her, as they share so many experiences of sorrow and suffering. She states that she loves silence, grief, and night, and that they will be companions forever, with her not fighting against their preference.

Analysis

Sonnet sequences enjoyed popularity in early modern English literature throughout the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Traditionally associated with love, sonnets were lyric poems that usually featured a single speaker expressing their thoughts and feelings about a beloved. As such, sonnets were also frequently poems about loss, pain, and internal struggle. Indeed, the literal and metaphorical...