The Sonnets of William Shakspere

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

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Sin of felflove poffeffſeth all mine
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From faireft creatures we deſire increaſe
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Look in thy glaſs and tell the face thou vieweſt
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Unthrifty lovelineſs why doft thou ſpend
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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 mufic fadly IX Is it for fear to wet a widows
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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 ſtars 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 XVIII Shall I compare thee to a fummers day ΤΟ 11 12 13
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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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Mine eye hath playd the painter and hath ftelld
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Lord of my love to whom in vaſſalage
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How can I then return in happy plight XXIX 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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Why didft thou promiſe ſuch a beauteous day xxxv No more be grieved at that which thou haft 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 ſubſtance of my fleſh were thought XLV 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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So am I as the rich whoſe bleſſed
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LIIL What is your ſubſtance whereof are you made
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O how much more doth beauty beauteous feem
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Againſt my love ſhall be as I am now PAGE
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When I have ſeen by Times fell hand defaced LXV Since braſs nor ftone nor earth nor bound
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Ah wherefore with infection ſhould he live
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Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
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Thoſe parts of thee that the worlds eye doth view
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So are you to my thoughts as food to life LXXVI Why is my verſe ſo barren of new pride LXXVII Thy glaſs will ſhow thee how thy beauties wear L...
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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 Mufe
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never faw that you did painting need
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So fhall I live ſuppoſing thou art true XCIV They that have power to hurt and will do none
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Alack what poverty my Muſe 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 falſe of heart
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III
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O for my fake do you with Fortune chide
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Your love and pity doth the impreffion fill
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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 eſteemd
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Thy gift thy tables are within my brain
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No Time thou fhalt not boaft that I do change
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My miſtreſs eyes are nothing like the
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Thou art as tyrannous ſo as thou
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Thine eyes I love and they as pitying
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Beſhrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
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So now I have confeffd that he is thine
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Whoever hath her wiſh thou haft thy Will
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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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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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Love is my fin and thy dear virtue hate
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Lo as a careful houſewife runs to catch
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Two loves I have of comfort and deſpair
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Thoſe lips that Loves own hand did make
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Poor foul the centre of my finful earth
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My love is as a fever longing ſtill
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O me what eyes hath Love put in my head
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Canft thou O cruel fay I love thee not
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O from what power haft thou this powerful might
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Love is too young to know what confcience is
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In loving thee thou knowft I am forfworn
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Cupid laid by his brand and fell aſleep
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The little Lovegod lying once aſleep
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Page 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O no ; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken ; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 64 - When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Page 107 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 104 - To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summers...
Page 146 - So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
Page 15 - ... even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory ; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night ; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
Page 87 - Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou know'st thy estimate: The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting? And for that riches where is my deserving?
Page 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd...
Page 130 - Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
Page 110 - These blenches gave my heart another youth, And worse essays proved thee my best of love. Now all is done, have what shall have no end: Mine appetite I never more will grind On newer proof, to try an older friend, A god in love, to whom I am confined. Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.

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