Dim Lady

I really like the poem Dim Lady by Mullen.  We always hear about how great Shakespeare is, especially his original sonnets.  Unfortunately his work is lost on me and many people in this age, because of the language.  I have to read the poems over and over before I start comprehending them.  Reading the sonnet in a modern text helped me to go back and read the Shakespeare one and understand it better.  The modern one, Dim Lady, was lacking all of the flow and rhythm that Shakespeare's sonnet was.  So to me Dim Lady was more of a tool to read the Shakespeare poem than as an equal modern replacement.