The Sonnets of William Shakspere

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C. K. Paul & Company, 1881 - Sonnets, English - 251 pages

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If there be nothing new but that which
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled
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When forty winters ſhall beſiege thy brow
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Look in thy glaſs and tell the face thou vieweſt
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v Thoſe hours that with gentle work did frame
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Then let not winters ragged hand deface
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Lo in the orient when the gracious light
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Mufic to hear why hearſt thou muſic fadly
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Is it for fear to wet a widows eye 2
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For fhame deny that thou bearſt love to
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As faſt as thou fhalt wane ſo faſt thou growſt
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When I do count the clock that tells the time
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O that you were yourſelf but love you
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Not from the ftars do I my judgment pluck xv When I confider every thing that grows
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But wherefore do not you a mightier
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Who will believe my verſe in time to come
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Shall I compare thee to a fummers
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Devouring Time blunt thou the lions paws
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A womans face with Natures own hand painted
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So is it not with me as with that Mufe
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My glaſs ſhall not perfuade me I am
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As an unperfect actor on the ſtage
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How can I then return in happy plight
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When in diſgrace with fortune and mens eyes xxx When to the feffions of ſweet filent thought
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Thy bofom is endeared with all hearts
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If thou furvive my wellcontented
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Full many a glorious morning have I ſeen
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No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
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Let me confefs that we two muſt be twain
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As a decrepit father takes delight
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How can my Mufe want fubject to invent XXXIX O how thy worth with manners may I fing
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Take all my loves my love yea take them
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Thoſe pretty wrongs that liberty commits
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That thou haft her it is not all my grief
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When moſt I wink then do mine eyes beſt
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If the dull fubftance of my fleſh were thought
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The other two flight air and purging fire
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Mine eye and heart are at a mortal
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Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
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How careful was I when I took my
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Againſt that time if ever that time come
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How heavy do I journey on the
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Thus can my love excufe the flow offence
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So am I as the rich whoſe bleſſed
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What is your ſubſtance whereof are you made
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O how much more doth beauty beauteous ſeem
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ſhore
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Againſt my love ſhall be as I am now LXIV When I have ſeen by Times fell hand defaced LXV Since braſs nor ftone nor earth nor bound 85888
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lefs fea 5858
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Tird with all theſe for reftful death I cry LXVII Ah wherefore with infection fhould he live LXVIII Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
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O how I faint when I of you do write
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Or I fhall live your epitaph to make
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grant thou wert not married to my Muſe
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My tonguetied Muſe in manners holds her ſtill
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Was it the proud full fail of his great verſe
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Farewell thou art too dear for my poffeffing LXXXVIII When thou shalt be difpofd to ſet me light LXXXIX Say that thou didst forfake me for fome...
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long
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O truant Muſe what ſhall be thy amends
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My love is ftrengthend though more weak in feeming
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Alack what poverty my Mufe brings forth CIV To me fair friend you never can be
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Let not my love be calld idolatry
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When in the chronicle of wafted time
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Not mine own fears nor the prophetic foul
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Whats in the brain that ink may character
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O never ſay that I was falfe of heart
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Alas tis true I have gone here and there
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O for my fake do you with Fortune chide
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Since I left you mine eye is in my mind
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Or whether doth my mind being crownd with
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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that I have ſcanted
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Like as to make our appetites more keen
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What potions have I drunk of Siren tears
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That you were once unkind befriends me
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Tis better to be vile than vile efteemd
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Thy gift thy tables are within my brain
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No Time thou shalt not boaft that I do change
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If my dear love were but the child of ſtate CXXV Weret aught to me I bore the canopy CXXVI O thou my lovely boy who in thy power CXXVII In t...
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Beſhrew that heart that makes my heart to groan CXXXIV So now I have confeffd that he is thine
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If thy foul check thee that I come ſo near
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Thou blind fool Love what doft thou to mine
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O call not me to juſtify the wrong
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Be wife as thou art cruel do not prefs
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In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes
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Lo as a careful houſewife runs to catch
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