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"Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend",
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"But wherefore do not you a mightier way",
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"So should the lines of life that life repair,",
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"Who will believe my verse in time to come,",
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"If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?",
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"Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb",
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"Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.",
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"If I could write the beauty of your eyes,",
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"And in fresh numbers number all your graces,",
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"The age to come would say 'This poet lies;",
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"Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'",
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"So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,",
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"And stretched metre of an antique song:",
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"But were some child of yours alive that time,",
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?",
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"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,",
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"And summer's lease hath all too short a date:",
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"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,",
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"And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,",
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"And every fair from fair sometime declines,",
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"But thy eternal summer shall not fade,",
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"Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,",
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"Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,",
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"When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,",
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"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,",
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"So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
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"Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,",
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"And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;",
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"Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,",
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"And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood;",
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"Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,",
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"And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,",
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"To the wide world and all her fading sweets;",
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"But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:",
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"O! carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,",
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"Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;",
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"Him in thy course untainted do allow",
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"For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.",
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"Yet, do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong,",
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"My love shall in my verse ever live young."
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"A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,",
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"Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;",
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"A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted",
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"With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:",
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"An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,",
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"Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;",
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"A man in hue all 'hues' in his controlling,",
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"Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.",
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"And for a woman wert thou first created;",
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"Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,",
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"And by addition me of thee defeated,",
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"By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.",
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"But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,",
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"Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure."
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"number": 20
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"lines": [
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"So is it not with me as with that Muse,",
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"Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,",
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"Who heaven itself for ornament doth use",
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"And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,",
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"Making a couplement of proud compare'",
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"With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,",
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"With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,",
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"That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.",
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"O! let me, true in love, but truly write,",
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"And then believe me, my love is as fair",
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"As any mother's child, though not so bright",
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"As those gold candles fix'd in heaven's air:",
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"Let them say more that like of hearsay well;",
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"I will not praise that purpose not to sell."
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{
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"lines": [
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"My glass shall not persuade me I am old,",
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"So long as youth and thou are of one date;",
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"But when in thee time's furrows I behold,",
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"Then look I death my days should expiate.",
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"For all that beauty that doth cover thee,",
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"Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,",
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"Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:",
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"How can I then be elder than thou art?",
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"O! therefore love, be of thyself so wary",
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"As I, not for myself, but for thee will;",
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"Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary",
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"As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.",
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"Presume not on th;heart when mine is slain,",
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"Thou gav'st me thine not to give back again."
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{
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"lines": [
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"As an unperfect actor on the stage,",
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"Who with his fear is put beside his part,",
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"Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,",
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"Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;",
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"So I, for fear of trust, forget to say",
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"The perfect ceremony of love's rite,",
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"And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,",
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"O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.",
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"O! let my looks be then the eloquence",
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"And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,",
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"Who plead for love, and look for recompense,",
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"More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.",
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"O! learn to read what silent love hath writ:",
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"To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit."
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],
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"number": 23
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},
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{
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"lines": [
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"Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,",
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"Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;",
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"My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,",
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"And perspective it is best painter's art.",
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"For through the painter must you see his skill,",
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"To find where your true image pictur'd lies,",
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"Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,",
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"That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.",
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"Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:",
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"Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me",
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"Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun",
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"Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;",
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"Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,",
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"They draw but what they see, know not the heart."
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"number": 24
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},
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{
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"lines": [
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"Let those who are in favour with their stars",
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"Of public honour and proud titles boast,",
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"Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars",
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"Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.",
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"Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread",
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"But as the marigold at the sun's eye,",
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"And in themselves their pride lies buried,",
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"For at a frown they in their glory die.",
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"The painful warrior famoused for fight,",
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"After a thousand victories once foil'd,",
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"Is from the book of honour razed quite,",
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"And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:",
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"Then happy I, that love and am belov'd,",
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"Where I may not remove nor be remov'd."
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"number": 25
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},
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{
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"lines": [
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"Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage",
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"Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,",
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"To thee I send this written embassage,",
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"To witness duty, not to show my wit:",
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"Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine",
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"May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,",
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"But that I hope some good conceit of thine",
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"In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it:",
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"Till whatsoever star that guides my moving,",
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"Points on me graciously with fair aspect,",
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"And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,",
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"To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:",
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"Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;",
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"Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me."
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"number": 26
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},
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{
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"lines": [
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"Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,",
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"The dear respose for limbs with travel tir'd;",
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"But then begins a journey in my head",
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"To work my mind, when body's work's expired:",
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"For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--",
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"Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,",
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"And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,",
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"Looking on darkness which the blind do see:",
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"Save that my soul's imaginary sight",
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"Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,",
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"Which, like a jewel (hung in ghastly night,",
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"Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.",
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"Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,",
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"For thee, and for myself, no quiet find."
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},
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{
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"lines": [
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"How can I then return in happy plight,",
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"That am debarre'd the benefit of rest?",
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"When day's oppression is not eas'd by night,",
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"But day by night and night by day oppress'd,",
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"And each, though enemies to either's reign,",
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"Do in consent shake hands to torture me,",
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"The one by toil, the other to complain",
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"How far I toil, still farther off from thee.",
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"I tell the day, to please him thou art bright,",
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"And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:",
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"So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,",
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"When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.",
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"But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer,",
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"And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger."
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"number": 28
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},
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{
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"lines": [
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"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes",
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"I all alone beweep my outcast state,",
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"And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,",
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"And look upon myself, and curse my fate,",
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542
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"Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,",
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"Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,",
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"Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,",
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"With what I most enjoy contented least;",
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"Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,",
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"Haply I think on thee,-- and then my state,",
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548
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"Like to the lark at break of day arising",
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549
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"From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate,;",
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"For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings",
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"That then I scorn to change my state with kings."
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"lines": [
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"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought",
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"I summon up remembrance of things past,",
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"I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,",
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560
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+
"And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:",
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561
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"Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,",
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562
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"For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,",
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563
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"And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,",
|
564
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"And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:",
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565
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+
"Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,",
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"And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er",
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567
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"The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,",
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568
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+
"Which I new pay as if not paid before.",
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569
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"But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,",
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"All losses are restor'd and sorrows end."
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},
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{
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"lines": [
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"Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,",
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"Which I by lacking have supposed dead;",
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"And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,",
|
579
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"And all those friends which I thought buried.",
|
580
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"How many a holy and obsequious tear",
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+
"Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,",
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"As interest of the dead, which now appear",
|
583
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+
"But things remov'd that hidden in thee lie!",
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584
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+
"Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,",
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"Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,",
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586
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"Who all their parts of me to thee did give,",
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587
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+
"That due of many now is thine alone:",
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588
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"Their images I lov'd, I view in thee,",
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589
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"And thou--all they--hast all the all of me."
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590
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+
],
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591
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"number": 31
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592
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},
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593
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{
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594
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"lines": [
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595
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"If thou survive my well-contented day,",
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596
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"When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover",
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597
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+
"And shalt by fortune once more re-survey",
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598
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"These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,",
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599
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+
"Compare them with the bett'ring of the time,",
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600
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"And though they be outstripp'd by every pen,",
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601
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"Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,",
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602
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"Exceeded by the height of happier men.",
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603
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+
"O! then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:",
|
604
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+
"'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,",
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605
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+
"A dearer birth than this his love had brought,",
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606
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+
"To march in ranks of better equipage:",
|
607
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+
"But since he died and poets better prove,",
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608
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+
"Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love'."
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609
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+
],
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610
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"number": 32
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611
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+
},
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612
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+
{
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613
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"lines": [
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614
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+
"Full many a glorious morning have I seen",
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615
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+
"Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,",
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616
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+
"Kissing with golden face the meadows green,",
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617
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+
"Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;",
|
618
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+
"Anon permit the basest clouds to ride",
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619
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"With ugly rack on his celestial face,",
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620
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+
"And from the forlorn world his visage hide,",
|
621
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+
"Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:",
|
622
|
+
"Even so my sun one early morn did shine,",
|
623
|
+
"With all triumphant splendour on my brow;",
|
624
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+
"But out! alack! he was but one hour mine,",
|
625
|
+
"The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.",
|
626
|
+
"Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;",
|
627
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+
"Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth."
|
628
|
+
],
|
629
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+
"number": 33
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630
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+
},
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631
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+
{
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632
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+
"lines": [
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633
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+
"Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,",
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634
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+
"And make me travel forth without my cloak,",
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635
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+
"To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,",
|
636
|
+
"Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?",
|
637
|
+
"'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,",
|
638
|
+
"To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,",
|
639
|
+
"For no man well of such a salve can speak,",
|
640
|
+
"That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:",
|
641
|
+
"Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;",
|
642
|
+
"Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:",
|
643
|
+
"The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief",
|
644
|
+
"To him that bears the strong offence's cross.",
|
645
|
+
"Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,",
|
646
|
+
"And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds."
|
647
|
+
],
|
648
|
+
"number": 34
|
649
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+
},
|
650
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+
{
|
651
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+
"lines": [
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652
|
+
"No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done:",
|
653
|
+
"Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:",
|
654
|
+
"Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,",
|
655
|
+
"And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.",
|
656
|
+
"All men make faults, and even I in this,",
|
657
|
+
"Authorizing thy trespass with compare,",
|
658
|
+
"Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,",
|
659
|
+
"Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;",
|
660
|
+
"For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,--",
|
661
|
+
"Thy adverse party is thy advocate,--",
|
662
|
+
"And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:",
|
663
|
+
"Such civil war is in my love and hate,",
|
664
|
+
"That I an accessary needs must be,",
|
665
|
+
"To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me."
|
666
|
+
],
|
667
|
+
"number": 35
|
668
|
+
},
|
669
|
+
{
|
670
|
+
"lines": [
|
671
|
+
"Let me confess that we two must be twain,",
|
672
|
+
"Although our undivided loves are one:",
|
673
|
+
"So shall those blots that do with me remain,",
|
674
|
+
"Without thy help, by me be borne alone.",
|
675
|
+
"In our two loves there is but one respect,",
|
676
|
+
"Though in our lives a separable spite,",
|
677
|
+
"Which though it alter not love's sole effect,",
|
678
|
+
"Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.",
|
679
|
+
"I may not evermore acknowledge thee,",
|
680
|
+
"Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,",
|
681
|
+
"Nor thou with public kindness honour me,",
|
682
|
+
"Unless thou take that honour from thy name:",
|
683
|
+
"But do not so, I love thee in such sort,",
|
684
|
+
"As thou being mine, mine is thy good report."
|
685
|
+
],
|
686
|
+
"number": 36
|
687
|
+
},
|
688
|
+
{
|
689
|
+
"lines": [
|
690
|
+
"As a decrepit father takes delight",
|
691
|
+
"To see his active child do deeds of youth,",
|
692
|
+
"So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,",
|
693
|
+
"Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;",
|
694
|
+
"For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,",
|
695
|
+
"Or any of these all, or all, or more,",
|
696
|
+
"Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,",
|
697
|
+
"I make my love engrafted, to this store:",
|
698
|
+
"So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd,",
|
699
|
+
"Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give",
|
700
|
+
"That I in thy abundance am suffic'd,",
|
701
|
+
"And by a part of all thy glory live.",
|
702
|
+
"Look what is best, that best I wish in thee:",
|
703
|
+
"This wish I have; then ten times happy me!"
|
704
|
+
],
|
705
|
+
"number": 37
|
706
|
+
},
|
707
|
+
{
|
708
|
+
"lines": [
|
709
|
+
"How can my muse want subject to invent,",
|
710
|
+
"While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse",
|
711
|
+
"Thine own sweet argument, too excellent",
|
712
|
+
"For every vulgar paper to rehearse?",
|
713
|
+
"O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me",
|
714
|
+
"Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;",
|
715
|
+
"For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,",
|
716
|
+
"When thou thy self dost give invention light?",
|
717
|
+
"Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth",
|
718
|
+
"Than those old nine which rhymers invocate;",
|
719
|
+
"And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth",
|
720
|
+
"Eternal numbers to outlive long date.",
|
721
|
+
"If my slight muse do please these curious days,",
|
722
|
+
"The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise."
|
723
|
+
],
|
724
|
+
"number": 38
|
725
|
+
},
|
726
|
+
{
|
727
|
+
"lines": [
|
728
|
+
"O! how thy worth with manners may I sing,",
|
729
|
+
"When thou art all the better part of me?",
|
730
|
+
"What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?",
|
731
|
+
"And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?",
|
732
|
+
"Even for this, let us divided live,",
|
733
|
+
"And our dear love lose name of single one,",
|
734
|
+
"That by this separation I may give",
|
735
|
+
"That due to thee which thou deserv'st alone.",
|
736
|
+
"O absence! what a torment wouldst thou prove,",
|
737
|
+
"Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave,",
|
738
|
+
"To entertain the time with thoughts of love,",
|
739
|
+
"Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,",
|
740
|
+
"And that thou teachest how to make one twain,",
|
741
|
+
"By praising him here who doth hence remain."
|
742
|
+
],
|
743
|
+
"number": 39
|
744
|
+
},
|
745
|
+
{
|
746
|
+
"lines": [
|
747
|
+
"Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;",
|
748
|
+
"What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?",
|
749
|
+
"No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;",
|
750
|
+
"All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.",
|
751
|
+
"Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,",
|
752
|
+
"I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;",
|
753
|
+
"But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivest",
|
754
|
+
"By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.",
|
755
|
+
"I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,",
|
756
|
+
"Although thou steal thee all my poverty:",
|
757
|
+
"And yet, love knows it is a greater grief",
|
758
|
+
"To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.",
|
759
|
+
"Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,",
|
760
|
+
"Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes."
|
761
|
+
],
|
762
|
+
"number": 40
|
763
|
+
},
|
764
|
+
{
|
765
|
+
"lines": [
|
766
|
+
"Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,",
|
767
|
+
"When I am sometime absent from thy heart,",
|
768
|
+
"Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,",
|
769
|
+
"For still temptation follows where thou art.",
|
770
|
+
"Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,",
|
771
|
+
"Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assail'd;",
|
772
|
+
"And when a woman woos, what woman's son",
|
773
|
+
"Will sourly leave her till he have prevail'd?",
|
774
|
+
"Ay me! but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,",
|
775
|
+
"And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth,",
|
776
|
+
"Who lead thee in their riot even there",
|
777
|
+
"Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:--",
|
778
|
+
"Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,",
|
779
|
+
"Thine by thy beauty being false to me."
|
780
|
+
],
|
781
|
+
"number": 41
|
782
|
+
},
|
783
|
+
{
|
784
|
+
"lines": [
|
785
|
+
"That thou hast her it is not all my grief,",
|
786
|
+
"And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;",
|
787
|
+
"That she hath thee is of my wailing chief,",
|
788
|
+
"A loss in love that touches me more nearly.",
|
789
|
+
"Loving offenders thus I will excuse ye:",
|
790
|
+
"Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I love her;",
|
791
|
+
"And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,",
|
792
|
+
"Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.",
|
793
|
+
"If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,",
|
794
|
+
"And losing her, my friend hath found that loss;",
|
795
|
+
"Both find each other, and I lose both twain,",
|
796
|
+
"And both for my sake lay on me this cross:",
|
797
|
+
"But here's the joy; my friend and I are one;",
|
798
|
+
"Sweet flattery! then she loves but me alone."
|
799
|
+
],
|
800
|
+
"number": 42
|
801
|
+
},
|
802
|
+
{
|
803
|
+
"lines": [
|
804
|
+
"When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,",
|
805
|
+
"For all the day they view things unrespected;",
|
806
|
+
"But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,",
|
807
|
+
"And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.",
|
808
|
+
"Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,",
|
809
|
+
"How would thy shadow's form form happy show",
|
810
|
+
"To the clear day with thy much clearer light,",
|
811
|
+
"When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!",
|
812
|
+
"How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made",
|
813
|
+
"By looking on thee in the living day,",
|
814
|
+
"When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade",
|
815
|
+
"Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!",
|
816
|
+
"All days are nights to see till I see thee,",
|
817
|
+
"And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."
|
818
|
+
],
|
819
|
+
"number": 43
|
820
|
+
},
|
821
|
+
{
|
822
|
+
"lines": [
|
823
|
+
"If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,",
|
824
|
+
"Injurious distance should not stop my way;",
|
825
|
+
"For then despite of space I would be brought,",
|
826
|
+
"From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.",
|
827
|
+
"No matter then although my foot did stand",
|
828
|
+
"Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;",
|
829
|
+
"For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,",
|
830
|
+
"As soon as think the place where he would be.",
|
831
|
+
"But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,",
|
832
|
+
"To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,",
|
833
|
+
"But that so much of earth and water wrought,",
|
834
|
+
"I must attend, time's leisure with my moan;",
|
835
|
+
"Receiving nought by elements so slow",
|
836
|
+
"But heavy tears, badges of either's woe."
|
837
|
+
],
|
838
|
+
"number": 44
|
839
|
+
},
|
840
|
+
{
|
841
|
+
"lines": [
|
842
|
+
"The other two, slight air, and purging fire",
|
843
|
+
"Are both with thee, wherever I abide;",
|
844
|
+
"The first my thought, the other my desire,",
|
845
|
+
"These present-absent with swift motion slide.",
|
846
|
+
"For when these quicker elements are gone",
|
847
|
+
"In tender embassy of love to thee,",
|
848
|
+
"My life, being made of four, with two alone",
|
849
|
+
"Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;",
|
850
|
+
"Until life's composition be recur'd",
|
851
|
+
"By those swift messengers return'd from thee,",
|
852
|
+
"Who even but now come back again, assur'd,",
|
853
|
+
"Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:",
|
854
|
+
"This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,",
|
855
|
+
"I send them back again, and straight grow sad."
|
856
|
+
],
|
857
|
+
"number": 45
|
858
|
+
},
|
859
|
+
{
|
860
|
+
"lines": [
|
861
|
+
"Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,",
|
862
|
+
"How to divide the conquest of thy sight;",
|
863
|
+
"Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,",
|
864
|
+
"My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.",
|
865
|
+
"My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,--",
|
866
|
+
"A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes--",
|
867
|
+
"But the defendant doth that plea deny,",
|
868
|
+
"And says in him thy fair appearance lies.",
|
869
|
+
"To side this title is impannelled",
|
870
|
+
"A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart;",
|
871
|
+
"And by their verdict is determined",
|
872
|
+
"The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part:",
|
873
|
+
"As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,",
|
874
|
+
"And my heart's right, thy inward love of heart."
|
875
|
+
],
|
876
|
+
"number": 46
|
877
|
+
},
|
878
|
+
{
|
879
|
+
"lines": [
|
880
|
+
"Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,",
|
881
|
+
"And each doth good turns now unto the other:",
|
882
|
+
"When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,",
|
883
|
+
"Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,",
|
884
|
+
"With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,",
|
885
|
+
"And to the painted banquet bids my heart;",
|
886
|
+
"Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,",
|
887
|
+
"And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:",
|
888
|
+
"So, either by thy picture or my love,",
|
889
|
+
"Thy self away, art present still with me;",
|
890
|
+
"For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,",
|
891
|
+
"And I am still with them, and they with thee;",
|
892
|
+
"Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight",
|
893
|
+
"Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight."
|
894
|
+
],
|
895
|
+
"number": 47
|
896
|
+
},
|
897
|
+
{
|
898
|
+
"lines": [
|
899
|
+
"How careful was I when I took my way,",
|
900
|
+
"Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,",
|
901
|
+
"That to my use it might unused stay",
|
902
|
+
"From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!",
|
903
|
+
"But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,",
|
904
|
+
"Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,",
|
905
|
+
"Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,",
|
906
|
+
"Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.",
|
907
|
+
"Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,",
|
908
|
+
"Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,",
|
909
|
+
"Within the gentle closure of my breast,",
|
910
|
+
"From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;",
|
911
|
+
"And even thence thou wilt be stol'n I fear,",
|
912
|
+
"For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear."
|
913
|
+
],
|
914
|
+
"number": 48
|
915
|
+
},
|
916
|
+
{
|
917
|
+
"lines": [
|
918
|
+
"Against that time, if ever that time come,",
|
919
|
+
"When I shall see thee frown on my defects,",
|
920
|
+
"When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,",
|
921
|
+
"Call'd to that audit by advis'd respects;",
|
922
|
+
"Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass,",
|
923
|
+
"And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye,",
|
924
|
+
"When love, converted from the thing it was,",
|
925
|
+
"Shall reasons find of settled gravity;",
|
926
|
+
"Against that time do I ensconce me here,",
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927
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"Within the knowledge of mine own desert,",
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928
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"And this my hand, against my self uprear,",
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929
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"To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:",
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930
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"To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,",
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931
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"Since why to love I can allege no cause."
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932
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],
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933
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"number": 49
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934
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},
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935
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{
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936
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"lines": [
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937
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+
"How heavy do I journey on the way,",
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938
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+
"When what I seek, my weary travel's end,",
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939
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+
"Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,",
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940
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"'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'",
|
941
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+
"The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,",
|
942
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+
"Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,",
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943
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+
"As if by some instinct the wretch did know",
|
944
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+
"His rider lov'd not speed, being made from thee:",
|
945
|
+
"The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,",
|
946
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+
"That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,",
|
947
|
+
"Which heavily he answers with a groan,",
|
948
|
+
"More sharp to me than spurring to his side;",
|
949
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+
"For that same groan doth put this in my mind,",
|
950
|
+
"My grief lies onward, and my joy behind."
|
951
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+
],
|
952
|
+
"number": 50
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953
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+
},
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954
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+
{
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955
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"lines": [
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956
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+
"Thus can my love excuse the slow offence",
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957
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+
"Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed:",
|
958
|
+
"From where thou art why should I haste me thence?",
|
959
|
+
"Till I return, of posting is no need.",
|
960
|
+
"O! what excuse will my poor beast then find,",
|
961
|
+
"When swift extremity can seem but slow?",
|
962
|
+
"Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,",
|
963
|
+
"In winged speed n:motion shall I know,",
|
964
|
+
"Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;",
|
965
|
+
"Therefore desire, of perfect'st love being made,",
|
966
|
+
"Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;",
|
967
|
+
"But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade,--",
|
968
|
+
"'Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,",
|
969
|
+
"Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.'"
|
970
|
+
],
|
971
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+
"number": 51
|
972
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+
},
|
973
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+
{
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974
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+
"lines": [
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975
|
+
"So am I as the rich, whose blessed key,",
|
976
|
+
"Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,",
|
977
|
+
"The which he will not every hour survey,",
|
978
|
+
"For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.",
|
979
|
+
"Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,",
|
980
|
+
"Since, seldom coming in that long year set,",
|
981
|
+
"Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,",
|
982
|
+
"Or captain jewels in the carcanet.",
|
983
|
+
"So is the time that keeps you as my chest,",
|
984
|
+
"Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,",
|
985
|
+
"To make some special instant special-blest,",
|
986
|
+
"By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.",
|
987
|
+
"Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,",
|
988
|
+
"Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope."
|
989
|
+
],
|
990
|
+
"number": 52
|
991
|
+
},
|
992
|
+
{
|
993
|
+
"lines": [
|
994
|
+
"What is your substance, whereof are you made,",
|
995
|
+
"That millions of strange shadows on you tend?",
|
996
|
+
"Since every one, hath every one, one shade,",
|
997
|
+
"And you but one, can every shadow lend.",
|
998
|
+
"Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit",
|
999
|
+
"Is poorly imitated after you;",
|
1000
|
+
"On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,",
|
1001
|
+
"And you in Grecian tires are painted new:",
|
1002
|
+
"Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,",
|
1003
|
+
"The one doth shadow of your beauty show,",
|
1004
|
+
"The other as your bounty doth appear;",
|
1005
|
+
"And you in every blessed shape we know.",
|
1006
|
+
"In all external grace you have some part,",
|
1007
|
+
"But you like none, none you, for constant heart."
|
1008
|
+
],
|
1009
|
+
"number": 53
|
1010
|
+
},
|
1011
|
+
{
|
1012
|
+
"lines": [
|
1013
|
+
"O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem",
|
1014
|
+
"By that sweet ornament which truth doth give.",
|
1015
|
+
"The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem",
|
1016
|
+
"For that sweet odour, which doth in it live.",
|
1017
|
+
"The canker blooms have full as deep a dye",
|
1018
|
+
"As the perfumed tincture of the roses.",
|
1019
|
+
"Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly",
|
1020
|
+
"When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:",
|
1021
|
+
"But, for their virtue only is their show,",
|
1022
|
+
"They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade;",
|
1023
|
+
"Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;",
|
1024
|
+
"Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:",
|
1025
|
+
"And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,",
|
1026
|
+
"When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth."
|
1027
|
+
],
|
1028
|
+
"number": 54
|
1029
|
+
},
|
1030
|
+
{
|
1031
|
+
"lines": [
|
1032
|
+
"Not marble, nor the gilded monuments",
|
1033
|
+
"Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;",
|
1034
|
+
"But you shall shine more bright in these contents",
|
1035
|
+
"Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.",
|
1036
|
+
"When wasteful war shall statues overturn,",
|
1037
|
+
"And broils root out the work of masonry,",
|
1038
|
+
"Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn",
|
1039
|
+
"The living record of your memory.",
|
1040
|
+
"'Gainst death, and all-oblivious enmity",
|
1041
|
+
"Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room",
|
1042
|
+
"Even in the eyes of all posterity",
|
1043
|
+
"That wear this world out to the ending doom.",
|
1044
|
+
"So, till the judgment that yourself arise,",
|
1045
|
+
"You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes."
|
1046
|
+
],
|
1047
|
+
"number": 55
|
1048
|
+
},
|
1049
|
+
{
|
1050
|
+
"lines": [
|
1051
|
+
"Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said",
|
1052
|
+
"Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,",
|
1053
|
+
"Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,",
|
1054
|
+
"To-morrow sharpened in his former might:",
|
1055
|
+
"So, love, be thou, although to-day thou fill",
|
1056
|
+
"Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,",
|
1057
|
+
"To-morrow see again, and do not kill",
|
1058
|
+
"The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness.",
|
1059
|
+
"Let this sad interim like the ocean be",
|
1060
|
+
"Which parts the shore, where two contracted new",
|
1061
|
+
"Come daily to the banks, that when they see",
|
1062
|
+
"Return of love, more blest may be the view;",
|
1063
|
+
"Or call it winter, which being full of care,",
|
1064
|
+
"Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare."
|
1065
|
+
],
|
1066
|
+
"number": 56
|
1067
|
+
},
|
1068
|
+
{
|
1069
|
+
"lines": [
|
1070
|
+
"Being your slave what should I do but tend,",
|
1071
|
+
"Upon the hours, and times of your desire?",
|
1072
|
+
"I have no precious time at all to spend;",
|
1073
|
+
"Nor services to do, till you require.",
|
1074
|
+
"Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,",
|
1075
|
+
"Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,",
|
1076
|
+
"Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,",
|
1077
|
+
"When you have bid your servant once adieu;",
|
1078
|
+
"Nor dare I question with my jealous thought",
|
1079
|
+
"Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,",
|
1080
|
+
"But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought",
|
1081
|
+
"Save, where you are, how happy you make those.",
|
1082
|
+
"So true a fool is love, that in your will,",
|
1083
|
+
"Though you do anything, he thinks no ill."
|
1084
|
+
],
|
1085
|
+
"number": 57
|
1086
|
+
},
|
1087
|
+
{
|
1088
|
+
"lines": [
|
1089
|
+
"That god forbid, that made me first your slave,",
|
1090
|
+
"I should in thought control your times of pleasure,",
|
1091
|
+
"Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,",
|
1092
|
+
"Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!",
|
1093
|
+
"O! let me suffer, being at your beck,",
|
1094
|
+
"The imprison'd absence of your liberty;",
|
1095
|
+
"And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,",
|
1096
|
+
"Without accusing you of injury.",
|
1097
|
+
"Be where you list, your charter is so strong",
|
1098
|
+
"That you yourself may privilage your time",
|
1099
|
+
"To what you will; to you it doth belong",
|
1100
|
+
"Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.",
|
1101
|
+
"I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,",
|
1102
|
+
"Not blame your pleasure be it ill or well."
|
1103
|
+
],
|
1104
|
+
"number": 58
|
1105
|
+
},
|
1106
|
+
{
|
1107
|
+
"lines": [
|
1108
|
+
"If there be nothing new, but that which is",
|
1109
|
+
"Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,",
|
1110
|
+
"Which labouring for invention bear amiss",
|
1111
|
+
"The second burthen of a former child!",
|
1112
|
+
"O! that record could with a backward look,",
|
1113
|
+
"Even of five hundred courses of the sun,",
|
1114
|
+
"Show me your image in some antique book,",
|
1115
|
+
"Since mind at first in character was done!",
|
1116
|
+
"That I might see what the old world could say",
|
1117
|
+
"To this composed wonder of your frame;",
|
1118
|
+
"Wh'r we are mended, or wh'r better they,",
|
1119
|
+
"Or whether revolution be the same.",
|
1120
|
+
"O! sure I am the wits of former days,",
|
1121
|
+
"To subjects worse have given admiring praise."
|
1122
|
+
],
|
1123
|
+
"number": 59
|
1124
|
+
},
|
1125
|
+
{
|
1126
|
+
"lines": [
|
1127
|
+
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,",
|
1128
|
+
"So do our minutes hasten to their end;",
|
1129
|
+
"Each changing place with that which goes before,",
|
1130
|
+
"In sequent toil all forwards do contend.",
|
1131
|
+
"Nativity, once in the main of light,",
|
1132
|
+
"Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,",
|
1133
|
+
"Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,",
|
1134
|
+
"And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.",
|
1135
|
+
"Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth",
|
1136
|
+
"And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,",
|
1137
|
+
"Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,",
|
1138
|
+
"And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:",
|
1139
|
+
"And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand.",
|
1140
|
+
"Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand."
|
1141
|
+
],
|
1142
|
+
"number": 60
|
1143
|
+
},
|
1144
|
+
{
|
1145
|
+
"lines": [
|
1146
|
+
"Is it thy will, thy image should keep open",
|
1147
|
+
"My heavy eyelids to the weary night?",
|
1148
|
+
"Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,",
|
1149
|
+
"While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?",
|
1150
|
+
"Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee",
|
1151
|
+
"So far from home into my deeds to pry,",
|
1152
|
+
"To find out shames and idle hours in me,",
|
1153
|
+
"The scope and tenure of thy jealousy?",
|
1154
|
+
"O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:",
|
1155
|
+
"It is my love that keeps mine eye awake:",
|
1156
|
+
"Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,",
|
1157
|
+
"To play the watchman ever for thy sake:",
|
1158
|
+
"For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,",
|
1159
|
+
"From me far off, with others all too near."
|
1160
|
+
],
|
1161
|
+
"number": 61
|
1162
|
+
},
|
1163
|
+
{
|
1164
|
+
"lines": [
|
1165
|
+
"Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye",
|
1166
|
+
"And all my soul, and all my every part;",
|
1167
|
+
"And for this sin there is no remedy,",
|
1168
|
+
"It is so grounded inward in my heart.",
|
1169
|
+
"Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,",
|
1170
|
+
"No shape so true, no truth of such account;",
|
1171
|
+
"And for myself mine own worth do define,",
|
1172
|
+
"As I all other in all worths surmount.",
|
1173
|
+
"But when my glass shows me myself indeed",
|
1174
|
+
"Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity,",
|
1175
|
+
"Mine own self-love quite contrary I read;",
|
1176
|
+
"Self so self-loving were iniquity.",
|
1177
|
+
"'Tis thee,--myself,--that for myself I praise,",
|
1178
|
+
"Painting my age with beauty of thy days."
|
1179
|
+
],
|
1180
|
+
"number": 62
|
1181
|
+
},
|
1182
|
+
{
|
1183
|
+
"lines": [
|
1184
|
+
"Against my love shall be as I am now,",
|
1185
|
+
"With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;",
|
1186
|
+
"When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow",
|
1187
|
+
"With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn",
|
1188
|
+
"Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;",
|
1189
|
+
"And all those beauties whereof now he's king",
|
1190
|
+
"Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,",
|
1191
|
+
"Stealing away the treasure of his spring;",
|
1192
|
+
"For such a time do I now fortify",
|
1193
|
+
"Against confounding age's cruel knife,",
|
1194
|
+
"That he shall never cut from memory",
|
1195
|
+
"My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life:",
|
1196
|
+
"His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,",
|
1197
|
+
"And they shall live, and he in them still green."
|
1198
|
+
],
|
1199
|
+
"number": 63
|
1200
|
+
},
|
1201
|
+
{
|
1202
|
+
"lines": [
|
1203
|
+
"When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd",
|
1204
|
+
"The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age;",
|
1205
|
+
"When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,",
|
1206
|
+
"And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;",
|
1207
|
+
"When I have seen the hungry ocean gain",
|
1208
|
+
"Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,",
|
1209
|
+
"And the firm soil win of the watery main,",
|
1210
|
+
"Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;",
|
1211
|
+
"When I have seen such interchange of state,",
|
1212
|
+
"Or state itself confounded, to decay;",
|
1213
|
+
"Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate--",
|
1214
|
+
"That Time will come and take my love away.",
|
1215
|
+
"This thought is as a death which cannot choose",
|
1216
|
+
"But weep to have, that which it fears to lose."
|
1217
|
+
],
|
1218
|
+
"number": 64
|
1219
|
+
},
|
1220
|
+
{
|
1221
|
+
"lines": [
|
1222
|
+
"Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,",
|
1223
|
+
"But sad mortality o'ersways their power,",
|
1224
|
+
"How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,",
|
1225
|
+
"Whose action is no stronger than a flower?",
|
1226
|
+
"O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out,",
|
1227
|
+
"Against the wrackful siege of battering days,",
|
1228
|
+
"When rocks impregnable are not so stout,",
|
1229
|
+
"Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays?",
|
1230
|
+
"O fearful meditation! where, alack,",
|
1231
|
+
"Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?",
|
1232
|
+
"Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?",
|
1233
|
+
"Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?",
|
1234
|
+
"O! none, unless this miracle have might,",
|
1235
|
+
"That in black ink my love may still shine bright."
|
1236
|
+
],
|
1237
|
+
"number": 65
|
1238
|
+
},
|
1239
|
+
{
|
1240
|
+
"lines": [
|
1241
|
+
"Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,",
|
1242
|
+
"As to behold desert a beggar born,",
|
1243
|
+
"And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,",
|
1244
|
+
"And purest faith unhappily forsworn,",
|
1245
|
+
"And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,",
|
1246
|
+
"And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,",
|
1247
|
+
"And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd,",
|
1248
|
+
"And strength by limping sway disabled",
|
1249
|
+
"And art made tongue-tied by authority,",
|
1250
|
+
"And folly--doctor-like--controlling skill,",
|
1251
|
+
"And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,",
|
1252
|
+
"And captive good attending captain ill:",
|
1253
|
+
"Tir'd with all these, from these would I be gone,",
|
1254
|
+
"Save that, to die, I leave my love alone."
|
1255
|
+
],
|
1256
|
+
"number": 66
|
1257
|
+
},
|
1258
|
+
{
|
1259
|
+
"lines": [
|
1260
|
+
"Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,",
|
1261
|
+
"And with his presence grace impiety,",
|
1262
|
+
"That sin by him advantage should achieve,",
|
1263
|
+
"And lace itself with his society?",
|
1264
|
+
"Why should false painting imitate his cheek,",
|
1265
|
+
"And steel dead seeming of his living hue?",
|
1266
|
+
"Why should poor beauty indirectly seek",
|
1267
|
+
"Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?",
|
1268
|
+
"Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,",
|
1269
|
+
"Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?",
|
1270
|
+
"For she hath no exchequer now but his,",
|
1271
|
+
"And proud of many, lives upon his gains.",
|
1272
|
+
"O! him she stores, to show what wealth she had",
|
1273
|
+
"In days long since, before these last so bad."
|
1274
|
+
],
|
1275
|
+
"number": 67
|
1276
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+
},
|
1277
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+
{
|
1278
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+
"lines": [
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1279
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+
"Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,",
|
1280
|
+
"When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,",
|
1281
|
+
"Before these bastard signs of fair were born,",
|
1282
|
+
"Or durst inhabit on a living brow;",
|
1283
|
+
"Before the golden tresses of the dead,",
|
1284
|
+
"The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,",
|
1285
|
+
"To live a second life on second head;",
|
1286
|
+
"Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:",
|
1287
|
+
"In him those holy antique hours are seen,",
|
1288
|
+
"Without all ornament, itself and true,",
|
1289
|
+
"Making no summer of another's green,",
|
1290
|
+
"Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;",
|
1291
|
+
"And him as for a map doth Nature store,",
|
1292
|
+
"To show false Art what beauty was of yore."
|
1293
|
+
],
|
1294
|
+
"number": 68
|
1295
|
+
},
|
1296
|
+
{
|
1297
|
+
"lines": [
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1298
|
+
"Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view",
|
1299
|
+
"Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;",
|
1300
|
+
"All tongues--the voice of souls--give thee that due,",
|
1301
|
+
"Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.",
|
1302
|
+
"Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;",
|
1303
|
+
"But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,",
|
1304
|
+
"In other accents do this praise confound",
|
1305
|
+
"By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.",
|
1306
|
+
"They look into the beauty of thy mind,",
|
1307
|
+
"And that in guess they measure by thy deeds;",
|
1308
|
+
"Then--churls--their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,",
|
1309
|
+
"To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:",
|
1310
|
+
"But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,",
|
1311
|
+
"The soil is this, that thou dost common grow."
|
1312
|
+
],
|
1313
|
+
"number": 69
|
1314
|
+
},
|
1315
|
+
{
|
1316
|
+
"lines": [
|
1317
|
+
"That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect,",
|
1318
|
+
"For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;",
|
1319
|
+
"The ornament of beauty is suspect,",
|
1320
|
+
"A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.",
|
1321
|
+
"So thou be good, slander doth but approve",
|
1322
|
+
"Thy worth the greater being woo'd of time;",
|
1323
|
+
"For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,",
|
1324
|
+
"And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.",
|
1325
|
+
"Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days",
|
1326
|
+
"Either not assail'd, or victor being charg'd;",
|
1327
|
+
"Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,",
|
1328
|
+
"To tie up envy, evermore enlarg'd,",
|
1329
|
+
"If some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show,",
|
1330
|
+
"Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe."
|
1331
|
+
],
|
1332
|
+
"number": 70
|
1333
|
+
},
|
1334
|
+
{
|
1335
|
+
"lines": [
|
1336
|
+
"No longer mourn for me when I am dead",
|
1337
|
+
"Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell",
|
1338
|
+
"Give warning to the world that I am fled",
|
1339
|
+
"From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:",
|
1340
|
+
"Nay, if you read this line, remember not",
|
1341
|
+
"The hand that writ it, for I love you so,",
|
1342
|
+
"That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,",
|
1343
|
+
"If thinking on me then should make you woe.",
|
1344
|
+
"O! if,--I say you look upon this verse,",
|
1345
|
+
"When I perhaps compounded am with clay,",
|
1346
|
+
"Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;",
|
1347
|
+
"But let your love even with my life decay;",
|
1348
|
+
"Lest the wise world should look into your moan,",
|
1349
|
+
"And mock you with me after I am gone."
|
1350
|
+
],
|
1351
|
+
"number": 71
|
1352
|
+
},
|
1353
|
+
{
|
1354
|
+
"lines": [
|
1355
|
+
"O! lest the world should task you to recite",
|
1356
|
+
"What merit lived in me, that you should love",
|
1357
|
+
"After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,",
|
1358
|
+
"For you in me can nothing worthy prove;",
|
1359
|
+
"Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,",
|
1360
|
+
"To do more for me than mine own desert,",
|
1361
|
+
"And hang more praise upon deceased I",
|
1362
|
+
"Than niggard truth would willingly impart:",
|
1363
|
+
"O! lest your true love may seem false in this",
|
1364
|
+
"That you for love speak well of me untrue,",
|
1365
|
+
"My name be buried where my body is,",
|
1366
|
+
"And live no more to shame nor me nor you.",
|
1367
|
+
"For I am shamed by that which I bring forth,",
|
1368
|
+
"And so should you, to love things nothing worth."
|
1369
|
+
],
|
1370
|
+
"number": 72
|
1371
|
+
},
|
1372
|
+
{
|
1373
|
+
"lines": [
|
1374
|
+
"That time of year thou mayst in me behold",
|
1375
|
+
"When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang",
|
1376
|
+
"Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,",
|
1377
|
+
"Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.",
|
1378
|
+
"In me thou see'st the twilight of such day",
|
1379
|
+
"As after sunset fadeth in the west;",
|
1380
|
+
"Which by and by black night doth take away,",
|
1381
|
+
"Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.",
|
1382
|
+
"In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,",
|
1383
|
+
"That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,",
|
1384
|
+
"As the death-bed, whereon it must expire,",
|
1385
|
+
"Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.",
|
1386
|
+
"This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,",
|
1387
|
+
"To love that well, which thou must leave ere long."
|
1388
|
+
],
|
1389
|
+
"number": 73
|
1390
|
+
},
|
1391
|
+
{
|
1392
|
+
"lines": [
|
1393
|
+
"But be contented: when that fell arrest",
|
1394
|
+
"Without all bail shall carry me away,",
|
1395
|
+
"My life hath in this line some interest,",
|
1396
|
+
"Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.",
|
1397
|
+
"When thou reviewest this, thou dost review",
|
1398
|
+
"The very part was consecrate to thee:",
|
1399
|
+
"The earth can have but earth, which is his due;",
|
1400
|
+
"My spirit is thine, the better part of me:",
|
1401
|
+
"So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,",
|
1402
|
+
"The prey of worms, my body being dead;",
|
1403
|
+
"The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,",
|
1404
|
+
"Too base of thee to be remembered,.",
|
1405
|
+
"The worth of that is that which it contains,",
|
1406
|
+
"And that is this, and this with thee remains."
|
1407
|
+
],
|
1408
|
+
"number": 74
|
1409
|
+
},
|
1410
|
+
{
|
1411
|
+
"lines": [
|
1412
|
+
"So are you to my thoughts as food to life,",
|
1413
|
+
"Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;",
|
1414
|
+
"And for the peace of you I hold such strife",
|
1415
|
+
"As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.",
|
1416
|
+
"Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon",
|
1417
|
+
"Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure;",
|
1418
|
+
"Now counting best to be with you alone,",
|
1419
|
+
"Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:",
|
1420
|
+
"Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,",
|
1421
|
+
"And by and by clean starved for a look;",
|
1422
|
+
"Possessing or pursuing no delight,",
|
1423
|
+
"Save what is had, or must from you be took.",
|
1424
|
+
"Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,",
|
1425
|
+
"Or gluttoning on all, or all away."
|
1426
|
+
],
|
1427
|
+
"number": 75
|
1428
|
+
},
|
1429
|
+
{
|
1430
|
+
"lines": [
|
1431
|
+
"Why is my verse so barren of new pride,",
|
1432
|
+
"So far from variation or quick change?",
|
1433
|
+
"Why with the time do I not glance aside",
|
1434
|
+
"To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?",
|
1435
|
+
"Why write I still all one, ever the same,",
|
1436
|
+
"And keep invention in a noted weed,",
|
1437
|
+
"That every word doth almost tell my name,",
|
1438
|
+
"Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?",
|
1439
|
+
"O! know sweet love I always write of you,",
|
1440
|
+
"And you and love are still my argument;",
|
1441
|
+
"So all my best is dressing old words new,",
|
1442
|
+
"Spending again what is already spent:",
|
1443
|
+
"For as the sun is daily new and old,",
|
1444
|
+
"So is my love still telling what is told."
|
1445
|
+
],
|
1446
|
+
"number": 76
|
1447
|
+
},
|
1448
|
+
{
|
1449
|
+
"lines": [
|
1450
|
+
"Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,",
|
1451
|
+
"Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;",
|
1452
|
+
"These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,",
|
1453
|
+
"And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.",
|
1454
|
+
"The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show",
|
1455
|
+
"Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;",
|
1456
|
+
"Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know",
|
1457
|
+
"Time's thievish progress to eternity.",
|
1458
|
+
"Look! what thy memory cannot contain,",
|
1459
|
+
"Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find",
|
1460
|
+
"Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,",
|
1461
|
+
"To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.",
|
1462
|
+
"These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,",
|
1463
|
+
"Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book."
|
1464
|
+
],
|
1465
|
+
"number": 77
|
1466
|
+
},
|
1467
|
+
{
|
1468
|
+
"lines": [
|
1469
|
+
"So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,",
|
1470
|
+
"And found such fair assistance in my verse",
|
1471
|
+
"As every alien pen hath got my use",
|
1472
|
+
"And under thee their poesy disperse.",
|
1473
|
+
"Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing",
|
1474
|
+
"And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,",
|
1475
|
+
"Have added feathers to the learned's wing",
|
1476
|
+
"And given grace a double majesty.",
|
1477
|
+
"Yet be most proud of that which I compile,",
|
1478
|
+
"Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:",
|
1479
|
+
"In others' works thou dost but mend the style,",
|
1480
|
+
"And arts with thy sweet graces graced be;",
|
1481
|
+
"But thou art all my art, and dost advance",
|
1482
|
+
"As high as learning, my rude ignorance."
|
1483
|
+
],
|
1484
|
+
"number": 78
|
1485
|
+
},
|
1486
|
+
{
|
1487
|
+
"lines": [
|
1488
|
+
"Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,",
|
1489
|
+
"My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;",
|
1490
|
+
"But now my gracious numbers are decay'd,",
|
1491
|
+
"And my sick Muse doth give an other place.",
|
1492
|
+
"I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument",
|
1493
|
+
"Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;",
|
1494
|
+
"Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent",
|
1495
|
+
"He robs thee of, and pays it thee again.",
|
1496
|
+
"He lends thee virtue, and he stole that word",
|
1497
|
+
"From thy behaviour; beauty doth he give,",
|
1498
|
+
"And found it in thy cheek: he can afford",
|
1499
|
+
"No praise to thee, but what in thee doth live.",
|
1500
|
+
"Then thank him not for that which he doth say,",
|
1501
|
+
"Since what he owes thee, thou thyself dost pay."
|
1502
|
+
],
|
1503
|
+
"number": 79
|
1504
|
+
},
|
1505
|
+
{
|
1506
|
+
"lines": [
|
1507
|
+
"O! how I faint when I of you do write,",
|
1508
|
+
"Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,",
|
1509
|
+
"And in the praise thereof spends all his might,",
|
1510
|
+
"To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame!",
|
1511
|
+
"But since your worth--wide as the ocean is,--",
|
1512
|
+
"The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,",
|
1513
|
+
"My saucy bark, inferior far to his,",
|
1514
|
+
"On your broad main doth wilfully appear.",
|
1515
|
+
"Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,",
|
1516
|
+
"Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;",
|
1517
|
+
"Or, being wrack'd, I am a worthless boat,",
|
1518
|
+
"He of tall building, and of goodly pride:",
|
1519
|
+
"Then if he thrive and I be cast away,",
|
1520
|
+
"The worst was this,--my love was my decay."
|
1521
|
+
],
|
1522
|
+
"number": 80
|
1523
|
+
},
|
1524
|
+
{
|
1525
|
+
"lines": [
|
1526
|
+
"Or I shall live your epitaph to make,",
|
1527
|
+
"Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;",
|
1528
|
+
"From hence your memory death cannot take,",
|
1529
|
+
"Although in me each part will be forgotten.",
|
1530
|
+
"Your name from hence immortal life shall have,",
|
1531
|
+
"Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:",
|
1532
|
+
"The earth can yield me but a common grave,",
|
1533
|
+
"When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.",
|
1534
|
+
"Your monument shall be my gentle verse,",
|
1535
|
+
"Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read;",
|
1536
|
+
"And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse,",
|
1537
|
+
"When all the breathers of this world are dead;",
|
1538
|
+
"You still shall live,--such virtue hath my pen,--",
|
1539
|
+
"Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men."
|
1540
|
+
],
|
1541
|
+
"number": 81
|
1542
|
+
},
|
1543
|
+
{
|
1544
|
+
"lines": [
|
1545
|
+
"I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,",
|
1546
|
+
"And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook",
|
1547
|
+
"The dedicated words which writers use",
|
1548
|
+
"Of their fair subject, blessing every book.",
|
1549
|
+
"Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,",
|
1550
|
+
"Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;",
|
1551
|
+
"And therefore art enforced to seek anew",
|
1552
|
+
"Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.",
|
1553
|
+
"And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,",
|
1554
|
+
"What strained touches rhetoric can lend,",
|
1555
|
+
"Thou truly fair, wert truly sympathiz'd",
|
1556
|
+
"In true plain words, by thy true-telling friend;",
|
1557
|
+
"And their gross painting might be better us'd",
|
1558
|
+
"Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abus'd."
|
1559
|
+
],
|
1560
|
+
"number": 82
|
1561
|
+
},
|
1562
|
+
{
|
1563
|
+
"lines": [
|
1564
|
+
"I never saw that you did painting need,",
|
1565
|
+
"And therefore to your fair no painting set;",
|
1566
|
+
"I found, or thought I found, you did exceed",
|
1567
|
+
"That barren tender of a poet's debt:",
|
1568
|
+
"And therefore have I slept in your report,",
|
1569
|
+
"That you yourself, being extant, well might show",
|
1570
|
+
"How far a modern quill doth come too short,",
|
1571
|
+
"Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.",
|
1572
|
+
"This silence for my sin you did impute,",
|
1573
|
+
"Which shall be most my glory being dumb;",
|
1574
|
+
"For I impair not beauty being mute,",
|
1575
|
+
"When others would give life, and bring a tomb.",
|
1576
|
+
"There lives more life in one of your fair eyes",
|
1577
|
+
"Than both your poets can in praise devise."
|
1578
|
+
],
|
1579
|
+
"number": 83
|
1580
|
+
},
|
1581
|
+
{
|
1582
|
+
"lines": [
|
1583
|
+
"Who is it that says most, which can say more,",
|
1584
|
+
"Than this rich praise,--that you alone, are you?",
|
1585
|
+
"In whose confine immured is the store",
|
1586
|
+
"Which should example where your equal grew.",
|
1587
|
+
"Lean penury within that pen doth dwell",
|
1588
|
+
"That to his subject lends not some small glory;",
|
1589
|
+
"But he that writes of you, if he can tell",
|
1590
|
+
"That you are you, so dignifies his story,",
|
1591
|
+
"Let him but copy what in you is writ,",
|
1592
|
+
"Not making worse what nature made so clear,",
|
1593
|
+
"And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,",
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1594
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"Making his style admired every where.",
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1595
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+
"You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,",
|
1596
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"Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse."
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1597
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+
],
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1598
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+
"number": 84
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1599
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+
},
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1600
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{
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1601
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"lines": [
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1602
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"My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,",
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1603
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+
"While comments of your praise richly compil'd,",
|
1604
|
+
"Reserve their character with golden quill,",
|
1605
|
+
"And precious phrase by all the Muses fil'd.",
|
1606
|
+
"I think good thoughts, whilst others write good words,",
|
1607
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+
"And like unlettered clerk still cry 'Amen'",
|
1608
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+
"To every hymn that able spirit affords,",
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1609
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+
"In polish'd form of well-refined pen.",
|
1610
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+
"Hearing you praised, I say ''tis so, 'tis true,'",
|
1611
|
+
"And to the most of praise add something more;",
|
1612
|
+
"But that is in my thought, whose love to you,",
|
1613
|
+
"Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.",
|
1614
|
+
"Then others, for the breath of words respect,",
|
1615
|
+
"Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect."
|
1616
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+
],
|
1617
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+
"number": 85
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1618
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+
},
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1619
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+
{
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1620
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+
"lines": [
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1621
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+
"Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,",
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1622
|
+
"Bound for the prize of all too precious you,",
|
1623
|
+
"That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,",
|
1624
|
+
"Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?",
|
1625
|
+
"Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write,",
|
1626
|
+
"Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?",
|
1627
|
+
"No, neither he, nor his compeers by night",
|
1628
|
+
"Giving him aid, my verse astonished.",
|
1629
|
+
"He, nor that affable familiar ghost",
|
1630
|
+
"Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,",
|
1631
|
+
"As victors of my silence cannot boast;",
|
1632
|
+
"I was not sick of any fear from thence:",
|
1633
|
+
"But when your countenance fill'd up his line,",
|
1634
|
+
"Then lacked I matter; that enfeebled mine."
|
1635
|
+
],
|
1636
|
+
"number": 86
|
1637
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+
},
|
1638
|
+
{
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1639
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+
"lines": [
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1640
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+
"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,",
|
1641
|
+
"And like enough thou know'st thy estimate,",
|
1642
|
+
"The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;",
|
1643
|
+
"My bonds in thee are all determinate.",
|
1644
|
+
"For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?",
|
1645
|
+
"And for that riches where is my deserving?",
|
1646
|
+
"The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,",
|
1647
|
+
"And so my patent back again is swerving.",
|
1648
|
+
"Thy self thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing,",
|
1649
|
+
"Or me to whom thou gav'st it, else mistaking;",
|
1650
|
+
"So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,",
|
1651
|
+
"Comes home again, on better judgement making.",
|
1652
|
+
"Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,",
|
1653
|
+
"In sleep a king, but waking no such matter."
|
1654
|
+
],
|
1655
|
+
"number": 87
|
1656
|
+
},
|
1657
|
+
{
|
1658
|
+
"lines": [
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1659
|
+
"When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light,",
|
1660
|
+
"And place my merit in the eye of scorn,",
|
1661
|
+
"Upon thy side, against myself I'll fight,",
|
1662
|
+
"And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.",
|
1663
|
+
"With mine own weakness, being best acquainted,",
|
1664
|
+
"Upon thy part I can set down a story",
|
1665
|
+
"Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted;",
|
1666
|
+
"That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:",
|
1667
|
+
"And I by this will be a gainer too;",
|
1668
|
+
"For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,",
|
1669
|
+
"The injuries that to myself I do,",
|
1670
|
+
"Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.",
|
1671
|
+
"Such is my love, to thee I so belong,",
|
1672
|
+
"That for thy right, myself will bear all wrong."
|
1673
|
+
],
|
1674
|
+
"number": 88
|
1675
|
+
},
|
1676
|
+
{
|
1677
|
+
"lines": [
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1678
|
+
"Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,",
|
1679
|
+
"And I will comment upon that offence:",
|
1680
|
+
"Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,",
|
1681
|
+
"Against thy reasons making no defence.",
|
1682
|
+
"Thou canst not love disgrace me half so ill,",
|
1683
|
+
"To set a form upon desired change,",
|
1684
|
+
"As I'll myself disgrace; knowing thy will,",
|
1685
|
+
"I will acquaintance strangle, and look strange;",
|
1686
|
+
"Be absent from thy walks; and in my tongue",
|
1687
|
+
"Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,",
|
1688
|
+
"Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong,",
|
1689
|
+
"And haply of our old acquaintance tell.",
|
1690
|
+
"For thee, against my self I'll vow debate,",
|
1691
|
+
"For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate."
|
1692
|
+
],
|
1693
|
+
"number": 89
|
1694
|
+
},
|
1695
|
+
{
|
1696
|
+
"lines": [
|
1697
|
+
"Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;",
|
1698
|
+
"Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,",
|
1699
|
+
"Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,",
|
1700
|
+
"And do not drop in for an after-loss:",
|
1701
|
+
"Ah! do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow,",
|
1702
|
+
"Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;",
|
1703
|
+
"Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,",
|
1704
|
+
"To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.",
|
1705
|
+
"If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,",
|
1706
|
+
"When other petty griefs have done their spite,",
|
1707
|
+
"But in the onset come: so shall I taste",
|
1708
|
+
"At first the very worst of fortune's might;",
|
1709
|
+
"And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,",
|
1710
|
+
"Compar'd with loss of thee, will not seem so."
|
1711
|
+
],
|
1712
|
+
"number": 90
|
1713
|
+
},
|
1714
|
+
{
|
1715
|
+
"lines": [
|
1716
|
+
"Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,",
|
1717
|
+
"Some in their wealth, some in their body's force,",
|
1718
|
+
"Some in their garments though new-fangled ill;",
|
1719
|
+
"Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;",
|
1720
|
+
"And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,",
|
1721
|
+
"Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:",
|
1722
|
+
"But these particulars are not my measure,",
|
1723
|
+
"All these I better in one general best.",
|
1724
|
+
"Thy love is better than high birth to me,",
|
1725
|
+
"Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' costs,",
|
1726
|
+
"Of more delight than hawks and horses be;",
|
1727
|
+
"And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:",
|
1728
|
+
"Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take",
|
1729
|
+
"All this away, and me most wretchcd make."
|
1730
|
+
],
|
1731
|
+
"number": 91
|
1732
|
+
},
|
1733
|
+
{
|
1734
|
+
"lines": [
|
1735
|
+
"But do thy worst to steal thyself away,",
|
1736
|
+
"For term of life thou art assured mine;",
|
1737
|
+
"And life no longer than thy love will stay,",
|
1738
|
+
"For it depends upon that love of thine.",
|
1739
|
+
"Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,",
|
1740
|
+
"When in the least of them my life hath end.",
|
1741
|
+
"I see a better state to me belongs",
|
1742
|
+
"Than that which on thy humour doth depend:",
|
1743
|
+
"Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,",
|
1744
|
+
"Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.",
|
1745
|
+
"O! what a happy title do I find,",
|
1746
|
+
"Happy to have thy love, happy to die!",
|
1747
|
+
"But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot?",
|
1748
|
+
"Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not."
|
1749
|
+
],
|
1750
|
+
"number": 92
|
1751
|
+
},
|
1752
|
+
{
|
1753
|
+
"lines": [
|
1754
|
+
"So shall I live, supposing thou art true,",
|
1755
|
+
"Like a deceived husband; so love's face",
|
1756
|
+
"May still seem love to me, though alter'd new;",
|
1757
|
+
"Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place:",
|
1758
|
+
"For there can live no hatred in thine eye,",
|
1759
|
+
"Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.",
|
1760
|
+
"In many's looks, the false heart's history",
|
1761
|
+
"Is writ in moods, and frowns, and wrinkles strange.",
|
1762
|
+
"But heaven in thy creation did decree",
|
1763
|
+
"That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;",
|
1764
|
+
"Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,",
|
1765
|
+
"Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell.",
|
1766
|
+
"How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow,",
|
1767
|
+
"If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show!"
|
1768
|
+
],
|
1769
|
+
"number": 93
|
1770
|
+
},
|
1771
|
+
{
|
1772
|
+
"lines": [
|
1773
|
+
"They that have power to hurt, and will do none,",
|
1774
|
+
"That do not do the thing they most do show,",
|
1775
|
+
"Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,",
|
1776
|
+
"Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;",
|
1777
|
+
"They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,",
|
1778
|
+
"And husband nature's riches from expense;",
|
1779
|
+
"They are the lords and owners of their faces,",
|
1780
|
+
"Others, but stewards of their excellence.",
|
1781
|
+
"The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,",
|
1782
|
+
"Though to itself, it only live and die,",
|
1783
|
+
"But if that flower with base infection meet,",
|
1784
|
+
"The basest weed outbraves his dignity:",
|
1785
|
+
"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;",
|
1786
|
+
"Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds."
|
1787
|
+
],
|
1788
|
+
"number": 94
|
1789
|
+
},
|
1790
|
+
{
|
1791
|
+
"lines": [
|
1792
|
+
"How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame",
|
1793
|
+
"Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,",
|
1794
|
+
"Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!",
|
1795
|
+
"O! in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose.",
|
1796
|
+
"That tongue that tells the story of thy days,",
|
1797
|
+
"Making lascivious comments on thy sport,",
|
1798
|
+
"Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise;",
|
1799
|
+
"Naming thy name, blesses an ill report.",
|
1800
|
+
"O! what a mansion have those vices got",
|
1801
|
+
"Which for their habitation chose out thee,",
|
1802
|
+
"Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot",
|
1803
|
+
"And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!",
|
1804
|
+
"Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege;",
|
1805
|
+
"The hardest knife ill-us'd doth lose his edge."
|
1806
|
+
],
|
1807
|
+
"number": 95
|
1808
|
+
},
|
1809
|
+
{
|
1810
|
+
"lines": [
|
1811
|
+
"Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;",
|
1812
|
+
"Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;",
|
1813
|
+
"Both grace and faults are lov'd of more and less:",
|
1814
|
+
"Thou mak'st faults graces that to thee resort.",
|
1815
|
+
"As on the finger of a throned queen",
|
1816
|
+
"The basest jewel will be well esteem'd,",
|
1817
|
+
"So are those errors that in thee are seen",
|
1818
|
+
"To truths translated, and for true things deem'd.",
|
1819
|
+
"How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,",
|
1820
|
+
"If like a lamb he could his looks translate!",
|
1821
|
+
"How many gazers mightst thou lead away,",
|
1822
|
+
"if thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state!",
|
1823
|
+
"But do not so; I love thee in such sort,",
|
1824
|
+
"As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report."
|
1825
|
+
],
|
1826
|
+
"number": 96
|
1827
|
+
},
|
1828
|
+
{
|
1829
|
+
"lines": [
|
1830
|
+
"How like a winter hath my absence been",
|
1831
|
+
"From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!",
|
1832
|
+
"What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!",
|
1833
|
+
"What old December's bareness everywhere!",
|
1834
|
+
"And yet this time removed was summer's time;",
|
1835
|
+
"The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,",
|
1836
|
+
"Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,",
|
1837
|
+
"Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:",
|
1838
|
+
"Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me",
|
1839
|
+
"But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit;",
|
1840
|
+
"For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,",
|
1841
|
+
"And, thou away, the very birds are mute:",
|
1842
|
+
"Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,",
|
1843
|
+
"That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near."
|
1844
|
+
],
|
1845
|
+
"number": 97
|
1846
|
+
},
|
1847
|
+
{
|
1848
|
+
"lines": [
|
1849
|
+
"From you have I been absent in the spring,",
|
1850
|
+
"When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim,",
|
1851
|
+
"Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,",
|
1852
|
+
"That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.",
|
1853
|
+
"Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell",
|
1854
|
+
"Of different flowers in odour and in hue,",
|
1855
|
+
"Could make me any summer's story tell,",
|
1856
|
+
"Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:",
|
1857
|
+
"Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,",
|
1858
|
+
"Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;",
|
1859
|
+
"They were but sweet, but figures of delight,",
|
1860
|
+
"Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.",
|
1861
|
+
"Yet seem'd it winter still, and you away,",
|
1862
|
+
"As with your shadow I with these did play."
|
1863
|
+
],
|
1864
|
+
"number": 98
|
1865
|
+
},
|
1866
|
+
{
|
1867
|
+
"lines": [
|
1868
|
+
"Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,",
|
1869
|
+
"If not from my love's breath? The purple pride",
|
1870
|
+
"Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells",
|
1871
|
+
"In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd.",
|
1872
|
+
"The lily I condemned for thy hand,",
|
1873
|
+
"And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair;",
|
1874
|
+
"The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,",
|
1875
|
+
"One blushing shame, another white despair;",
|
1876
|
+
"A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both,",
|
1877
|
+
"And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath;",
|
1878
|
+
"But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth",
|
1879
|
+
"A vengeful canker eat him up to death.",
|
1880
|
+
"More flowers I noted, yet I none could see,",
|
1881
|
+
"But sweet, or colour it had stol'n from thee."
|
1882
|
+
],
|
1883
|
+
"number": 99
|
1884
|
+
},
|
1885
|
+
{
|
1886
|
+
"lines": [
|
1887
|
+
"Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,",
|
1888
|
+
"To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?",
|
1889
|
+
"Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,",
|
1890
|
+
"Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?",
|
1891
|
+
"Return forgetful Muse, and straight redeem,",
|
1892
|
+
"In gentle numbers time so idly spent;",
|
1893
|
+
"Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem",
|
1894
|
+
"And gives thy pen both skill and argument.",
|
1895
|
+
"Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,",
|
1896
|
+
"If Time have any wrinkle graven there;",
|
1897
|
+
"If any, be a satire to decay,",
|
1898
|
+
"And make time's spoils despised every where.",
|
1899
|
+
"Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life,",
|
1900
|
+
"So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife."
|
1901
|
+
],
|
1902
|
+
"number": 100
|
1903
|
+
},
|
1904
|
+
{
|
1905
|
+
"lines": [
|
1906
|
+
"O truant Muse what shall be thy amends",
|
1907
|
+
"For thy neglect of truth in beauty dy'd?",
|
1908
|
+
"Both truth and beauty on my love depends;",
|
1909
|
+
"So dost thou too, and therein dignified.",
|
1910
|
+
"Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say,",
|
1911
|
+
"'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;",
|
1912
|
+
"Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;",
|
1913
|
+
"But best is best, if never intermix'd'?",
|
1914
|
+
"Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?",
|
1915
|
+
"Excuse not silence so, for't lies in thee",
|
1916
|
+
"To make him much outlive a gilded tomb",
|
1917
|
+
"And to be prais'd of ages yet to be.",
|
1918
|
+
"Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how",
|
1919
|
+
"To make him seem long hence as he shows now."
|
1920
|
+
],
|
1921
|
+
"number": 101
|
1922
|
+
},
|
1923
|
+
{
|
1924
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"lines": [
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1925
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"My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;",
|
1926
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"I love not less, though less the show appear;",
|
1927
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+
"That love is merchandiz'd, whose rich esteeming,",
|
1928
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"The owner's tongue doth publish every where.",
|
1929
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+
"Our love was new, and then but in the spring,",
|
1930
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"When I was wont to greet it with my lays;",
|
1931
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"As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,",
|
1932
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"And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:",
|
1933
|
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"Not that the summer is less pleasant now",
|
1934
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"Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,",
|
1935
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+
"But that wild music burthens every bough,",
|
1936
|
+
"And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.",
|
1937
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+
"Therefore like her, I sometime hold my tongue:",
|
1938
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+
"Because I would not dull you with my song."
|
1939
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+
],
|
1940
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+
"number": 102
|
1941
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},
|
1942
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+
{
|
1943
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"lines": [
|
1944
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+
"Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,",
|
1945
|
+
"That having such a scope to show her pride,",
|
1946
|
+
"The argument, all bare, is of more worth",
|
1947
|
+
"Than when it hath my added praise beside!",
|
1948
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+
"O! blame me not, if I no more can write!",
|
1949
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"Look in your glass, and there appears a face",
|
1950
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"That over-goes my blunt invention quite,",
|
1951
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+
"Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.",
|
1952
|
+
"Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,",
|
1953
|
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"To mar the subject that before was well?",
|
1954
|
+
"For to no other pass my verses tend",
|
1955
|
+
"Than of your graces and your gifts to tell;",
|
1956
|
+
"And more, much more, than in my verse can sit,",
|
1957
|
+
"Your own glass shows you when you look in it."
|
1958
|
+
],
|
1959
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"number": 103
|
1960
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},
|
1961
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+
{
|
1962
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"lines": [
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1963
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"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,",
|
1964
|
+
"For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,",
|
1965
|
+
"Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,",
|
1966
|
+
"Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,",
|
1967
|
+
"Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,",
|
1968
|
+
"In process of the seasons have I seen,",
|
1969
|
+
"Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,",
|
1970
|
+
"Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.",
|
1971
|
+
"Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,",
|
1972
|
+
"Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd;",
|
1973
|
+
"So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,",
|
1974
|
+
"Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd:",
|
1975
|
+
"For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:",
|
1976
|
+
"Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead."
|
1977
|
+
],
|
1978
|
+
"number": 104
|
1979
|
+
},
|
1980
|
+
{
|
1981
|
+
"lines": [
|
1982
|
+
"Let not my love be call'd idolatry,",
|
1983
|
+
"Nor my beloved as an idol show,",
|
1984
|
+
"Since all alike my songs and praises be",
|
1985
|
+
"To one, of one, still such, and ever so.",
|
1986
|
+
"Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,",
|
1987
|
+
"Still constant in a wondrous excellence;",
|
1988
|
+
"Therefore my verse to constancy confin'd,",
|
1989
|
+
"One thing expressing, leaves out difference.",
|
1990
|
+
"'Fair, kind, and true,' is all my argument,",
|
1991
|
+
"'Fair, kind, and true,' varying to other words;",
|
1992
|
+
"And in this change is my invention spent,",
|
1993
|
+
"Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.",
|
1994
|
+
"Fair, kind, and true, have often liv'd alone,",
|
1995
|
+
"Which three till now, never kept seat in one."
|
1996
|
+
],
|
1997
|
+
"number": 105
|
1998
|
+
},
|
1999
|
+
{
|
2000
|
+
"lines": [
|
2001
|
+
"When in the chronicle of wasted time",
|
2002
|
+
"I see descriptions of the fairest wights,",
|
2003
|
+
"And beauty making beautiful old rime,",
|
2004
|
+
"In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,",
|
2005
|
+
"Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,",
|
2006
|
+
"Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,",
|
2007
|
+
"I see their antique pen would have express'd",
|
2008
|
+
"Even such a beauty as you master now.",
|
2009
|
+
"So all their praises are but prophecies",
|
2010
|
+
"Of this our time, all you prefiguring;",
|
2011
|
+
"And for they looked but with divining eyes,",
|
2012
|
+
"They had not skill enough your worth to sing:",
|
2013
|
+
"For we, which now behold these present days,",
|
2014
|
+
"Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise."
|
2015
|
+
],
|
2016
|
+
"number": 106
|
2017
|
+
},
|
2018
|
+
{
|
2019
|
+
"lines": [
|
2020
|
+
"Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul",
|
2021
|
+
"Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,",
|
2022
|
+
"Can yet the lease of my true love control,",
|
2023
|
+
"Supposed as forfeit to a confin'd doom.",
|
2024
|
+
"The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd,",
|
2025
|
+
"And the sad augurs mock their own presage;",
|
2026
|
+
"Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd,",
|
2027
|
+
"And peace proclaims olives of endless age.",
|
2028
|
+
"Now with the drops of this most balmy time,",
|
2029
|
+
"My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes,",
|
2030
|
+
"Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rime,",
|
2031
|
+
"While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes:",
|
2032
|
+
"And thou in this shalt find thy monument,",
|
2033
|
+
"When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent."
|
2034
|
+
],
|
2035
|
+
"number": 107
|
2036
|
+
},
|
2037
|
+
{
|
2038
|
+
"lines": [
|
2039
|
+
"What's in the brain, that ink may character,",
|
2040
|
+
"Which hath not figur'd to thee my true spirit?",
|
2041
|
+
"What's new to speak, what now to register,",
|
2042
|
+
"That may express my love, or thy dear merit?",
|
2043
|
+
"Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,",
|
2044
|
+
"I must each day say o'er the very same;",
|
2045
|
+
"Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,",
|
2046
|
+
"Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.",
|
2047
|
+
"So that eternal love in love's fresh case,",
|
2048
|
+
"Weighs not the dust and injury of age,",
|
2049
|
+
"Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,",
|
2050
|
+
"But makes antiquity for aye his page;",
|
2051
|
+
"Finding the first conceit of love there bred,",
|
2052
|
+
"Where time and outward form would show it dead."
|
2053
|
+
],
|
2054
|
+
"number": 108
|
2055
|
+
},
|
2056
|
+
{
|
2057
|
+
"lines": [
|
2058
|
+
"O! never say that I was false of heart,",
|
2059
|
+
"Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify,",
|
2060
|
+
"As easy might I from my self depart",
|
2061
|
+
"As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:",
|
2062
|
+
"That is my home of love: if I have rang'd,",
|
2063
|
+
"Like him that travels, I return again;",
|
2064
|
+
"Just to the time, not with the time exchang'd,",
|
2065
|
+
"So that myself bring water for my stain.",
|
2066
|
+
"Never believe though in my nature reign'd,",
|
2067
|
+
"All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,",
|
2068
|
+
"That it could so preposterously be stain'd,",
|
2069
|
+
"To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;",
|
2070
|
+
"For nothing this wide universe I call,",
|
2071
|
+
"Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all."
|
2072
|
+
],
|
2073
|
+
"number": 109
|
2074
|
+
},
|
2075
|
+
{
|
2076
|
+
"lines": [
|
2077
|
+
"Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there,",
|
2078
|
+
"And made my self a motley to the view,",
|
2079
|
+
"Gor'd mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,",
|
2080
|
+
"Made old offences of affections new;",
|
2081
|
+
"Most true it is, that I have look'd on truth",
|
2082
|
+
"Askance and strangely; but, by all above,",
|
2083
|
+
"These blenches gave my heart another youth,",
|
2084
|
+
"And worse essays prov'd thee my best of love.",
|
2085
|
+
"Now all is done, save what shall have no end:",
|
2086
|
+
"Mine appetite I never more will grind",
|
2087
|
+
"On newer proof, to try an older friend,",
|
2088
|
+
"A god in love, to whom I am confin'd.",
|
2089
|
+
"Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,",
|
2090
|
+
"Even to thy pure and most most loving breast."
|
2091
|
+
],
|
2092
|
+
"number": 110
|
2093
|
+
},
|
2094
|
+
{
|
2095
|
+
"lines": [
|
2096
|
+
"O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,",
|
2097
|
+
"The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,",
|
2098
|
+
"That did not better for my life provide",
|
2099
|
+
"Than public means which public manners breeds.",
|
2100
|
+
"Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,",
|
2101
|
+
"And almost thence my nature is subdu'd",
|
2102
|
+
"To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:",
|
2103
|
+
"Pity me, then, and wish I were renew'd;",
|
2104
|
+
"Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink,",
|
2105
|
+
"Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection;",
|
2106
|
+
"No bitterness that I will bitter think,",
|
2107
|
+
"Nor double penance, to correct correction.",
|
2108
|
+
"Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye,",
|
2109
|
+
"Even that your pity is enough to cure me."
|
2110
|
+
],
|
2111
|
+
"number": 111
|
2112
|
+
},
|
2113
|
+
{
|
2114
|
+
"lines": [
|
2115
|
+
"Your love and pity doth the impression fill,",
|
2116
|
+
"Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;",
|
2117
|
+
"For what care I who calls me well or ill,",
|
2118
|
+
"So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?",
|
2119
|
+
"You are my all-the-world, and I must strive",
|
2120
|
+
"To know my shames and praises from your tongue;",
|
2121
|
+
"None else to me, nor I to none alive,",
|
2122
|
+
"That my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong.",
|
2123
|
+
"In so profound abysm I throw all care",
|
2124
|
+
"Of others' voices, that my adder's sense",
|
2125
|
+
"To critic and to flatterer stopped are.",
|
2126
|
+
"Mark how with my neglect I do dispense:",
|
2127
|
+
"You are so strongly in my purpose bred,",
|
2128
|
+
"That all the world besides methinks are dead."
|
2129
|
+
],
|
2130
|
+
"number": 112
|
2131
|
+
},
|
2132
|
+
{
|
2133
|
+
"lines": [
|
2134
|
+
"Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;",
|
2135
|
+
"And that which governs me to go about",
|
2136
|
+
"Doth part his function and is partly blind,",
|
2137
|
+
"Seems seeing, but effectually is out;",
|
2138
|
+
"For it no form delivers to the heart",
|
2139
|
+
"Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch:",
|
2140
|
+
"Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,",
|
2141
|
+
"Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;",
|
2142
|
+
"For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight,",
|
2143
|
+
"The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,",
|
2144
|
+
"The mountain or the sea, the day or night:",
|
2145
|
+
"The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.",
|
2146
|
+
"Incapable of more, replete with you,",
|
2147
|
+
"My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue."
|
2148
|
+
],
|
2149
|
+
"number": 113
|
2150
|
+
},
|
2151
|
+
{
|
2152
|
+
"lines": [
|
2153
|
+
"Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,",
|
2154
|
+
"Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?",
|
2155
|
+
"Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,",
|
2156
|
+
"And that your love taught it this alchemy,",
|
2157
|
+
"To make of monsters and things indigest",
|
2158
|
+
"Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,",
|
2159
|
+
"Creating every bad a perfect best,",
|
2160
|
+
"As fast as objects to his beams assemble?",
|
2161
|
+
"O! 'tis the first, 'tis flattery in my seeing,",
|
2162
|
+
"And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:",
|
2163
|
+
"Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,",
|
2164
|
+
"And to his palate doth prepare the cup:",
|
2165
|
+
"If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin",
|
2166
|
+
"That mine eye loves it and doth first begin."
|
2167
|
+
],
|
2168
|
+
"number": 114
|
2169
|
+
},
|
2170
|
+
{
|
2171
|
+
"lines": [
|
2172
|
+
"Those lines that I before have writ do lie,",
|
2173
|
+
"Even those that said I could not love you dearer:",
|
2174
|
+
"Yet then my judgment knew no reason why",
|
2175
|
+
"My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.",
|
2176
|
+
"But reckoning Time, whose million'd accidents",
|
2177
|
+
"Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,",
|
2178
|
+
"Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,",
|
2179
|
+
"Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;",
|
2180
|
+
"Alas! why fearing of Time's tyranny,",
|
2181
|
+
"Might I not then say, 'Now I love you best,'",
|
2182
|
+
"When I was certain o'er incertainty,",
|
2183
|
+
"Crowning the present, doubting of the rest?",
|
2184
|
+
"Love is a babe, then might I not say so,",
|
2185
|
+
"To give full growth to that which still doth grow?"
|
2186
|
+
],
|
2187
|
+
"number": 115
|
2188
|
+
},
|
2189
|
+
{
|
2190
|
+
"lines": [
|
2191
|
+
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds",
|
2192
|
+
"Admit impediments. Love is not love",
|
2193
|
+
"Which alters when it alteration finds,",
|
2194
|
+
"Or bends with the remover to remove:",
|
2195
|
+
"O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,",
|
2196
|
+
"That looks on tempests and is never shaken;",
|
2197
|
+
"It is the star to every wandering bark,",
|
2198
|
+
"Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.",
|
2199
|
+
"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks",
|
2200
|
+
"Within his bending sickle's compass come;",
|
2201
|
+
"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,",
|
2202
|
+
"But bears it out even to the edge of doom.",
|
2203
|
+
"If this be error and upon me prov'd,",
|
2204
|
+
"I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd."
|
2205
|
+
],
|
2206
|
+
"number": 116
|
2207
|
+
},
|
2208
|
+
{
|
2209
|
+
"lines": [
|
2210
|
+
"Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,",
|
2211
|
+
"Wherein I should your great deserts repay,",
|
2212
|
+
"Forgot upon your dearest love to call,",
|
2213
|
+
"Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;",
|
2214
|
+
"That I have frequent been with unknown minds,",
|
2215
|
+
"And given to time your own dear-purchas'd right;",
|
2216
|
+
"That I have hoisted sail to all the winds",
|
2217
|
+
"Which should transport me farthest from your sight.",
|
2218
|
+
"Book both my wilfulness and errors down,",
|
2219
|
+
"And on just proof surmise, accumulate;",
|
2220
|
+
"Bring me within the level of your frown,",
|
2221
|
+
"But shoot not at me in your waken'd hate;",
|
2222
|
+
"Since my appeal says I did strive to prove",
|
2223
|
+
"The constancy and virtue of your love."
|
2224
|
+
],
|
2225
|
+
"number": 117
|
2226
|
+
},
|
2227
|
+
{
|
2228
|
+
"lines": [
|
2229
|
+
"Like as, to make our appetite more keen,",
|
2230
|
+
"With eager compounds we our palate urge;",
|
2231
|
+
"As, to prevent our maladies unseen,",
|
2232
|
+
"We sicken to shun sickness when we purge;",
|
2233
|
+
"Even so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,",
|
2234
|
+
"To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;",
|
2235
|
+
"And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness",
|
2236
|
+
"To be diseas'd, ere that there was true needing.",
|
2237
|
+
"Thus policy in love, to anticipate",
|
2238
|
+
"The ills that were not, grew to faults assur'd,",
|
2239
|
+
"And brought to medicine a healthful state",
|
2240
|
+
"Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cur'd;",
|
2241
|
+
"But thence I learn and find the lesson true,",
|
2242
|
+
"Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you."
|
2243
|
+
],
|
2244
|
+
"number": 118
|
2245
|
+
},
|
2246
|
+
{
|
2247
|
+
"lines": [
|
2248
|
+
"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,",
|
2249
|
+
"Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,",
|
2250
|
+
"Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,",
|
2251
|
+
"Still losing when I saw myself to win!",
|
2252
|
+
"What wretched errors hath my heart committed,",
|
2253
|
+
"Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!",
|
2254
|
+
"How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,",
|
2255
|
+
"In the distraction of this madding fever!",
|
2256
|
+
"O benefit of ill! now I find true",
|
2257
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"That better is, by evil still made better;",
|
2258
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"And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,",
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2259
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"Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.",
|
2260
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+
"So I return rebuk'd to my content,",
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2261
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+
"And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent."
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2262
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+
],
|
2263
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"number": 119
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2264
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},
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2265
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{
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2266
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"lines": [
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"That you were once unkind befriends me now,",
|
2268
|
+
"And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,",
|
2269
|
+
"Needs must I under my transgression bow,",
|
2270
|
+
"Unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel.",
|
2271
|
+
"For if you were by my unkindness shaken,",
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2272
|
+
"As I by yours, you've pass'd a hell of time;",
|
2273
|
+
"And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken",
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2274
|
+
"To weigh how once I suffer'd in your crime.",
|
2275
|
+
"O! that our night of woe might have remember'd",
|
2276
|
+
"My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,",
|
2277
|
+
"And soon to you, as you to me, then tender'd",
|
2278
|
+
"The humble salve, which wounded bosoms fits!",
|
2279
|
+
"But that your trespass now becomes a fee;",
|
2280
|
+
"Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me."
|
2281
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+
],
|
2282
|
+
"number": 120
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2283
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+
},
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2284
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+
{
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2285
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+
"lines": [
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2286
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+
"'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,",
|
2287
|
+
"When not to be receives reproach of being;",
|
2288
|
+
"And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem'd",
|
2289
|
+
"Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing:",
|
2290
|
+
"For why should others' false adulterate eyes",
|
2291
|
+
"Give salutation to my sportive blood?",
|
2292
|
+
"Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,",
|
2293
|
+
"Which in their wills count bad what I think good?",
|
2294
|
+
"No, I am that I am, and they that level",
|
2295
|
+
"At my abuses reckon up their own:",
|
2296
|
+
"I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;",
|
2297
|
+
"By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;",
|
2298
|
+
"Unless this general evil they maintain,",
|
2299
|
+
"All men are bad and in their badness reign."
|
2300
|
+
],
|
2301
|
+
"number": 121
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2302
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+
},
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2303
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+
{
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2304
|
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"lines": [
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2305
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+
"Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain",
|
2306
|
+
"Full character'd with lasting memory,",
|
2307
|
+
"Which shall above that idle rank remain,",
|
2308
|
+
"Beyond all date; even to eternity:",
|
2309
|
+
"Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart",
|
2310
|
+
"Have faculty by nature to subsist;",
|
2311
|
+
"Till each to raz'd oblivion yield his part",
|
2312
|
+
"Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd.",
|
2313
|
+
"That poor retention could not so much hold,",
|
2314
|
+
"Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;",
|
2315
|
+
"Therefore to give them from me was I bold,",
|
2316
|
+
"To trust those tables that receive thee more:",
|
2317
|
+
"To keep an adjunct to remember thee",
|
2318
|
+
"Were to import forgetfulness in me."
|
2319
|
+
],
|
2320
|
+
"number": 122
|
2321
|
+
},
|
2322
|
+
{
|
2323
|
+
"lines": [
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2324
|
+
"No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:",
|
2325
|
+
"Thy pyramids built up with newer might",
|
2326
|
+
"To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;",
|
2327
|
+
"They are but dressings of a former sight.",
|
2328
|
+
"Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire",
|
2329
|
+
"What thou dost foist upon us that is old;",
|
2330
|
+
"And rather make them born to our desire",
|
2331
|
+
"Than think that we before have heard them told.",
|
2332
|
+
"Thy registers and thee I both defy,",
|
2333
|
+
"Not wondering at the present nor the past,",
|
2334
|
+
"For thy records and what we see doth lie,",
|
2335
|
+
"Made more or less by thy continual haste.",
|
2336
|
+
"This I do vow and this shall ever be;",
|
2337
|
+
"I will be true despite thy scythe and thee."
|
2338
|
+
],
|
2339
|
+
"number": 123
|
2340
|
+
},
|
2341
|
+
{
|
2342
|
+
"lines": [
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2343
|
+
"If my dear love were but the child of state,",
|
2344
|
+
"It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'd,",
|
2345
|
+
"As subject to Time's love or to Time's hate,",
|
2346
|
+
"Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather'd.",
|
2347
|
+
"No, it was builded far from accident;",
|
2348
|
+
"It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls",
|
2349
|
+
"Under the blow of thralled discontent,",
|
2350
|
+
"Whereto th' inviting time our fashion calls:",
|
2351
|
+
"It fears not policy, that heretic,",
|
2352
|
+
"Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,",
|
2353
|
+
"But all alone stands hugely politic,",
|
2354
|
+
"That it nor grows with heat, nor drowns with showers.",
|
2355
|
+
"To this I witness call the fools of time,",
|
2356
|
+
"Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime."
|
2357
|
+
],
|
2358
|
+
"number": 124
|
2359
|
+
},
|
2360
|
+
{
|
2361
|
+
"lines": [
|
2362
|
+
"Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,",
|
2363
|
+
"With my extern the outward honouring,",
|
2364
|
+
"Or laid great bases for eternity,",
|
2365
|
+
"Which proves more short than waste or ruining?",
|
2366
|
+
"Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour",
|
2367
|
+
"Lose all and more by paying too much rent",
|
2368
|
+
"For compound sweet; forgoing simple savour,",
|
2369
|
+
"Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?",
|
2370
|
+
"No; let me be obsequious in thy heart,",
|
2371
|
+
"And take thou my oblation, poor but free,",
|
2372
|
+
"Which is not mix'd with seconds, knows no art,",
|
2373
|
+
"But mutual render, only me for thee.",
|
2374
|
+
"Hence, thou suborned informer! a true soul",
|
2375
|
+
"When most impeach'd, stands least in thy control."
|
2376
|
+
],
|
2377
|
+
"number": 125
|
2378
|
+
},
|
2379
|
+
{
|
2380
|
+
"lines": [
|
2381
|
+
"O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power",
|
2382
|
+
"Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his fickle hour;",
|
2383
|
+
"Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st",
|
2384
|
+
"Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow'st.",
|
2385
|
+
"If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,",
|
2386
|
+
"As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,",
|
2387
|
+
"She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill",
|
2388
|
+
"May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.",
|
2389
|
+
"Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!",
|
2390
|
+
"She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:",
|
2391
|
+
"Her audit (though delayed) answered must be,",
|
2392
|
+
"And her quietus is to render thee."
|
2393
|
+
],
|
2394
|
+
"number": 126
|
2395
|
+
},
|
2396
|
+
{
|
2397
|
+
"lines": [
|
2398
|
+
"In the old age black was not counted fair,",
|
2399
|
+
"Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;",
|
2400
|
+
"But now is black beauty's successive heir,",
|
2401
|
+
"And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:",
|
2402
|
+
"For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,",
|
2403
|
+
"Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,",
|
2404
|
+
"Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,",
|
2405
|
+
"But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace.",
|
2406
|
+
"Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,",
|
2407
|
+
"Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem",
|
2408
|
+
"At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,",
|
2409
|
+
"Sland'ring creation with a false esteem:",
|
2410
|
+
"Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,",
|
2411
|
+
"That every tongue says beauty should look so."
|
2412
|
+
],
|
2413
|
+
"number": 127
|
2414
|
+
},
|
2415
|
+
{
|
2416
|
+
"lines": [
|
2417
|
+
"How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,",
|
2418
|
+
"Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds",
|
2419
|
+
"With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st",
|
2420
|
+
"The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,",
|
2421
|
+
"Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,",
|
2422
|
+
"To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,",
|
2423
|
+
"Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,",
|
2424
|
+
"At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!",
|
2425
|
+
"To be so tickled, they would change their state",
|
2426
|
+
"And situation with those dancing chips,",
|
2427
|
+
"O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,",
|
2428
|
+
"Making dead wood more bless'd than living lips.",
|
2429
|
+
"Since saucy jacks so happy are in this,",
|
2430
|
+
"Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss."
|
2431
|
+
],
|
2432
|
+
"number": 128
|
2433
|
+
},
|
2434
|
+
{
|
2435
|
+
"lines": [
|
2436
|
+
"The expense of spirit in a waste of shame",
|
2437
|
+
"Is lust in action: and till action, lust",
|
2438
|
+
"Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame,",
|
2439
|
+
"Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;",
|
2440
|
+
"Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight;",
|
2441
|
+
"Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,",
|
2442
|
+
"Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait,",
|
2443
|
+
"On purpose laid to make the taker mad:",
|
2444
|
+
"Mad in pursuit and in possession so;",
|
2445
|
+
"Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme;",
|
2446
|
+
"A bliss in proof,-- and prov'd, a very woe;",
|
2447
|
+
"Before, a joy propos'd; behind a dream.",
|
2448
|
+
"All this the world well knows; yet none knows well",
|
2449
|
+
"To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell."
|
2450
|
+
],
|
2451
|
+
"number": 129
|
2452
|
+
},
|
2453
|
+
{
|
2454
|
+
"lines": [
|
2455
|
+
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;",
|
2456
|
+
"Coral is far more red, than her lips red:",
|
2457
|
+
"If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;",
|
2458
|
+
"If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.",
|
2459
|
+
"I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,",
|
2460
|
+
"But no such roses see I in her cheeks;",
|
2461
|
+
"And in some perfumes is there more delight",
|
2462
|
+
"Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.",
|
2463
|
+
"I love to hear her speak, yet well I know",
|
2464
|
+
"That music hath a far more pleasing sound:",
|
2465
|
+
"I grant I never saw a goddess go,--",
|
2466
|
+
"My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:",
|
2467
|
+
"And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,",
|
2468
|
+
"As any she belied with false compare."
|
2469
|
+
],
|
2470
|
+
"number": 130
|
2471
|
+
},
|
2472
|
+
{
|
2473
|
+
"lines": [
|
2474
|
+
"Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,",
|
2475
|
+
"As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;",
|
2476
|
+
"For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart",
|
2477
|
+
"Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.",
|
2478
|
+
"Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,",
|
2479
|
+
"Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;",
|
2480
|
+
"To say they err I dare not be so bold,",
|
2481
|
+
"Although I swear it to myself alone.",
|
2482
|
+
"And to be sure that is not false I swear,",
|
2483
|
+
"A thousand groans, but thinking on thy face,",
|
2484
|
+
"One on another's neck, do witness bear",
|
2485
|
+
"Thy black is fairest in my judgment's place.",
|
2486
|
+
"In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,",
|
2487
|
+
"And thence this slander, as I think, proceeds."
|
2488
|
+
],
|
2489
|
+
"number": 131
|
2490
|
+
},
|
2491
|
+
{
|
2492
|
+
"lines": [
|
2493
|
+
"Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,",
|
2494
|
+
"Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain,",
|
2495
|
+
"Have put on black and loving mourners be,",
|
2496
|
+
"Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.",
|
2497
|
+
"And truly not the morning sun of heaven",
|
2498
|
+
"Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,",
|
2499
|
+
"Nor that full star that ushers in the even,",
|
2500
|
+
"Doth half that glory to the sober west,",
|
2501
|
+
"As those two mourning eyes become thy face:",
|
2502
|
+
"O! let it then as well beseem thy heart",
|
2503
|
+
"To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace,",
|
2504
|
+
"And suit thy pity like in every part.",
|
2505
|
+
"Then will I swear beauty herself is black,",
|
2506
|
+
"And all they foul that thy complexion lack."
|
2507
|
+
],
|
2508
|
+
"number": 132
|
2509
|
+
},
|
2510
|
+
{
|
2511
|
+
"lines": [
|
2512
|
+
"Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan",
|
2513
|
+
"For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!",
|
2514
|
+
"Is't not enough to torture me alone,",
|
2515
|
+
"But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?",
|
2516
|
+
"Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,",
|
2517
|
+
"And my next self thou harder hast engross'd:",
|
2518
|
+
"Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;",
|
2519
|
+
"A torment thrice three-fold thus to be cross'd:",
|
2520
|
+
"Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,",
|
2521
|
+
"But then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail;",
|
2522
|
+
"Whoe'er keeps me, let my heart be his guard;",
|
2523
|
+
"Thou canst not then use rigour in my jail:",
|
2524
|
+
"And yet thou wilt; for I, being pent in thee,",
|
2525
|
+
"Perforce am thine, and all that is in me."
|
2526
|
+
],
|
2527
|
+
"number": 133
|
2528
|
+
},
|
2529
|
+
{
|
2530
|
+
"lines": [
|
2531
|
+
"So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,",
|
2532
|
+
"And I my self am mortgag'd to thy will,",
|
2533
|
+
"Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine",
|
2534
|
+
"Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:",
|
2535
|
+
"But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,",
|
2536
|
+
"For thou art covetous, and he is kind;",
|
2537
|
+
"He learn'd but surety-like to write for me,",
|
2538
|
+
"Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.",
|
2539
|
+
"The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,",
|
2540
|
+
"Thou usurer, that putt'st forth all to use,",
|
2541
|
+
"And sue a friend came debtor for my sake;",
|
2542
|
+
"So him I lose through my unkind abuse.",
|
2543
|
+
"Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me:",
|
2544
|
+
"He pays the whole, and yet am I not free."
|
2545
|
+
],
|
2546
|
+
"number": 134
|
2547
|
+
},
|
2548
|
+
{
|
2549
|
+
"lines": [
|
2550
|
+
"Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'",
|
2551
|
+
"And 'Will' to boot, and 'Will' in over-plus;",
|
2552
|
+
"More than enough am I that vex'd thee still,",
|
2553
|
+
"To thy sweet will making addition thus.",
|
2554
|
+
"Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,",
|
2555
|
+
"Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?",
|
2556
|
+
"Shall will in others seem right gracious,",
|
2557
|
+
"And in my will no fair acceptance shine?",
|
2558
|
+
"The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,",
|
2559
|
+
"And in abundance addeth to his store;",
|
2560
|
+
"So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'",
|
2561
|
+
"One will of mine, to make thy large will more.",
|
2562
|
+
"Let no unkind 'No' fair beseechers kill;",
|
2563
|
+
"Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.'"
|
2564
|
+
],
|
2565
|
+
"number": 135
|
2566
|
+
},
|
2567
|
+
{
|
2568
|
+
"lines": [
|
2569
|
+
"If thy soul check thee that I come so near,",
|
2570
|
+
"Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will',",
|
2571
|
+
"And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;",
|
2572
|
+
"Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.",
|
2573
|
+
"'Will', will fulfil the treasure of thy love,",
|
2574
|
+
"Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.",
|
2575
|
+
"In things of great receipt with ease we prove",
|
2576
|
+
"Among a number one is reckon'd none:",
|
2577
|
+
"Then in the number let me pass untold,",
|
2578
|
+
"Though in thy store's account I one must be;",
|
2579
|
+
"For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold",
|
2580
|
+
"That nothing me, a something sweet to thee:",
|
2581
|
+
"Make but my name thy love, and love that still,",
|
2582
|
+
"And then thou lov'st me for my name is 'Will.'"
|
2583
|
+
],
|
2584
|
+
"number": 136
|
2585
|
+
},
|
2586
|
+
{
|
2587
|
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"lines": [
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"Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,",
|
2589
|
+
"That they behold, and see not what they see?",
|
2590
|
+
"They know what beauty is, see where it lies,",
|
2591
|
+
"Yet what the best is take the worst to be.",
|
2592
|
+
"If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,",
|
2593
|
+
"Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,",
|
2594
|
+
"Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks,",
|
2595
|
+
"Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?",
|
2596
|
+
"Why should my heart think that a several plot,",
|
2597
|
+
"Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?",
|
2598
|
+
"Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not,",
|
2599
|
+
"To put fair truth upon so foul a face?",
|
2600
|
+
"In things right true my heart and eyes have err'd,",
|
2601
|
+
"And to this false plague are they now transferr'd."
|
2602
|
+
],
|
2603
|
+
"number": 137
|
2604
|
+
},
|
2605
|
+
{
|
2606
|
+
"lines": [
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2607
|
+
"When my love swears that she is made of truth,",
|
2608
|
+
"I do believe her though I know she lies,",
|
2609
|
+
"That she might think me some untutor'd youth,",
|
2610
|
+
"Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.",
|
2611
|
+
"Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,",
|
2612
|
+
"Although she knows my days are past the best,",
|
2613
|
+
"Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:",
|
2614
|
+
"On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed:",
|
2615
|
+
"But wherefore says she not she is unjust?",
|
2616
|
+
"And wherefore say not I that I am old?",
|
2617
|
+
"O! love's best habit is in seeming trust,",
|
2618
|
+
"And age in love, loves not to have years told:",
|
2619
|
+
"Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,",
|
2620
|
+
"And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be."
|
2621
|
+
],
|
2622
|
+
"number": 138
|
2623
|
+
},
|
2624
|
+
{
|
2625
|
+
"lines": [
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2626
|
+
"O! call not me to justify the wrong",
|
2627
|
+
"That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;",
|
2628
|
+
"Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:",
|
2629
|
+
"Use power with power, and slay me not by art,",
|
2630
|
+
"Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,",
|
2631
|
+
"Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:",
|
2632
|
+
"What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might",
|
2633
|
+
"Is more than my o'erpress'd defence can bide?",
|
2634
|
+
"Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows",
|
2635
|
+
"Her pretty looks have been mine enemies;",
|
2636
|
+
"And therefore from my face she turns my foes,",
|
2637
|
+
"That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:",
|
2638
|
+
"Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,",
|
2639
|
+
"Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain."
|
2640
|
+
],
|
2641
|
+
"number": 139
|
2642
|
+
},
|
2643
|
+
{
|
2644
|
+
"lines": [
|
2645
|
+
"Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press",
|
2646
|
+
"My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;",
|
2647
|
+
"Lest sorrow lend me words, and words express",
|
2648
|
+
"The manner of my pity-wanting pain.",
|
2649
|
+
"If I might teach thee wit, better it were,",
|
2650
|
+
"Though not to love, yet, love to tell me so;--",
|
2651
|
+
"As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,",
|
2652
|
+
"No news but health from their physicians know;--",
|
2653
|
+
"For, if I should despair, I should grow mad,",
|
2654
|
+
"And in my madness might speak ill of thee;",
|
2655
|
+
"Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,",
|
2656
|
+
"Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be.",
|
2657
|
+
"That I may not be so, nor thou belied,",
|
2658
|
+
"Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide."
|
2659
|
+
],
|
2660
|
+
"number": 140
|
2661
|
+
},
|
2662
|
+
{
|
2663
|
+
"lines": [
|
2664
|
+
"In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,",
|
2665
|
+
"For they in thee a thousand errors note;",
|
2666
|
+
"But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,",
|
2667
|
+
"Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.",
|
2668
|
+
"Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;",
|
2669
|
+
"Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,",
|
2670
|
+
"Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited",
|
2671
|
+
"To any sensual feast with thee alone:",
|
2672
|
+
"But my five wits nor my five senses can",
|
2673
|
+
"Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,",
|
2674
|
+
"Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man,",
|
2675
|
+
"Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be:",
|
2676
|
+
"Only my plague thus far I count my gain,",
|
2677
|
+
"That she that makes me sin awards me pain."
|
2678
|
+
],
|
2679
|
+
"number": 141
|
2680
|
+
},
|
2681
|
+
{
|
2682
|
+
"lines": [
|
2683
|
+
"Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,",
|
2684
|
+
"Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:",
|
2685
|
+
"O! but with mine compare thou thine own state,",
|
2686
|
+
"And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;",
|
2687
|
+
"Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,",
|
2688
|
+
"That have profan'd their scarlet ornaments",
|
2689
|
+
"And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,",
|
2690
|
+
"Robb'd others' beds' revenues of their rents.",
|
2691
|
+
"Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lov'st those",
|
2692
|
+
"Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:",
|
2693
|
+
"Root pity in thy heart, that, when it grows,",
|
2694
|
+
"Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.",
|
2695
|
+
"If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,",
|
2696
|
+
"By self-example mayst thou be denied!"
|
2697
|
+
],
|
2698
|
+
"number": 142
|
2699
|
+
},
|
2700
|
+
{
|
2701
|
+
"lines": [
|
2702
|
+
"Lo, as a careful housewife runs to catch",
|
2703
|
+
"One of her feather'd creatures broke away,",
|
2704
|
+
"Sets down her babe, and makes all swift dispatch",
|
2705
|
+
"In pursuit of the thing she would have stay;",
|
2706
|
+
"Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase,",
|
2707
|
+
"Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent",
|
2708
|
+
"To follow that which flies before her face,",
|
2709
|
+
"Not prizing her poor infant's discontent;",
|
2710
|
+
"So runn'st thou after that which flies from thee,",
|
2711
|
+
"Whilst I thy babe chase thee afar behind;",
|
2712
|
+
"But if thou catch thy hope, turn back to me,",
|
2713
|
+
"And play the mother's part, kiss me, be kind;",
|
2714
|
+
"So will I pray that thou mayst have thy 'Will,'",
|
2715
|
+
"If thou turn back and my loud crying still."
|
2716
|
+
],
|
2717
|
+
"number": 143
|
2718
|
+
},
|
2719
|
+
{
|
2720
|
+
"lines": [
|
2721
|
+
"Two loves I have of comfort and despair,",
|
2722
|
+
"Which like two spirits do suggest me still:",
|
2723
|
+
"The better angel is a man right fair,",
|
2724
|
+
"The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.",
|
2725
|
+
"To win me soon to hell, my female evil,",
|
2726
|
+
"Tempteth my better angel from my side,",
|
2727
|
+
"And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,",
|
2728
|
+
"Wooing his purity with her foul pride.",
|
2729
|
+
"And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend,",
|
2730
|
+
"Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;",
|
2731
|
+
"But being both from me, both to each friend,",
|
2732
|
+
"I guess one angel in another's hell:",
|
2733
|
+
"Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,",
|
2734
|
+
"Till my bad angel fire my good one out."
|
2735
|
+
],
|
2736
|
+
"number": 144
|
2737
|
+
},
|
2738
|
+
{
|
2739
|
+
"lines": [
|
2740
|
+
"Those lips that Love's own hand did make,",
|
2741
|
+
"Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate',",
|
2742
|
+
"To me that languish'd for her sake:",
|
2743
|
+
"But when she saw my woeful state,",
|
2744
|
+
"Straight in her heart did mercy come,",
|
2745
|
+
"Chiding that tongue that ever sweet",
|
2746
|
+
"Was us'd in giving gentle doom;",
|
2747
|
+
"And taught it thus anew to greet;",
|
2748
|
+
"'I hate' she alter'd with an end,",
|
2749
|
+
"That followed it as gentle day,",
|
2750
|
+
"Doth follow night, who like a fiend",
|
2751
|
+
"From heaven to hell is flown away.",
|
2752
|
+
"'I hate', from hate away she threw,",
|
2753
|
+
"And sav'd my life, saying 'not you'."
|
2754
|
+
],
|
2755
|
+
"number": 145
|
2756
|
+
},
|
2757
|
+
{
|
2758
|
+
"lines": [
|
2759
|
+
"Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,",
|
2760
|
+
"My sinful earth these rebel powers array,",
|
2761
|
+
"Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,",
|
2762
|
+
"Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?",
|
2763
|
+
"Why so large cost, having so short a lease,",
|
2764
|
+
"Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?",
|
2765
|
+
"Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,",
|
2766
|
+
"Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?",
|
2767
|
+
"Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,",
|
2768
|
+
"And let that pine to aggravate thy store;",
|
2769
|
+
"Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;",
|
2770
|
+
"Within be fed, without be rich no more:",
|
2771
|
+
"So shall thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,",
|
2772
|
+
"And Death once dead, there's no more dying then."
|
2773
|
+
],
|
2774
|
+
"number": 146
|
2775
|
+
},
|
2776
|
+
{
|
2777
|
+
"lines": [
|
2778
|
+
"My love is as a fever longing still,",
|
2779
|
+
"For that which longer nurseth the disease;",
|
2780
|
+
"Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,",
|
2781
|
+
"The uncertain sickly appetite to please.",
|
2782
|
+
"My reason, the physician to my love,",
|
2783
|
+
"Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,",
|
2784
|
+
"Hath left me, and I desperate now approve",
|
2785
|
+
"Desire is death, which physic did except.",
|
2786
|
+
"Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,",
|
2787
|
+
"And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;",
|
2788
|
+
"My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,",
|
2789
|
+
"At random from the truth vainly express'd;",
|
2790
|
+
"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,",
|
2791
|
+
"Who art as black as hell, as dark as night."
|
2792
|
+
],
|
2793
|
+
"number": 147
|
2794
|
+
},
|
2795
|
+
{
|
2796
|
+
"lines": [
|
2797
|
+
"O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,",
|
2798
|
+
"Which have no correspondence with true sight;",
|
2799
|
+
"Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,",
|
2800
|
+
"That censures falsely what they see aright?",
|
2801
|
+
"If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,",
|
2802
|
+
"What means the world to say it is not so?",
|
2803
|
+
"If it be not, then love doth well denote",
|
2804
|
+
"Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,",
|
2805
|
+
"How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,",
|
2806
|
+
"That is so vexed with watching and with tears?",
|
2807
|
+
"No marvel then, though I mistake my view;",
|
2808
|
+
"The sun itself sees not, till heaven clears.",
|
2809
|
+
"O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,",
|
2810
|
+
"Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find."
|
2811
|
+
],
|
2812
|
+
"number": 148
|
2813
|
+
},
|
2814
|
+
{
|
2815
|
+
"lines": [
|
2816
|
+
"Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,",
|
2817
|
+
"When I against myself with thee partake?",
|
2818
|
+
"Do I not think on thee, when I forgot",
|
2819
|
+
"Am of my self, all tyrant, for thy sake?",
|
2820
|
+
"Who hateth thee that I do call my friend,",
|
2821
|
+
"On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon,",
|
2822
|
+
"Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not spend",
|
2823
|
+
"Revenge upon myself with present moan?",
|
2824
|
+
"What merit do I in my self respect,",
|
2825
|
+
"That is so proud thy service to despise,",
|
2826
|
+
"When all my best doth worship thy defect,",
|
2827
|
+
"Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?",
|
2828
|
+
"But, love, hate on, for now I know thy mind,;",
|
2829
|
+
"Those that can see thou lov'st, and I am blind."
|
2830
|
+
],
|
2831
|
+
"number": 149
|
2832
|
+
},
|
2833
|
+
{
|
2834
|
+
"lines": [
|
2835
|
+
"O! from what power hast thou this powerful might,",
|
2836
|
+
"With insufficiency my heart to sway?",
|
2837
|
+
"To make me give the lie to my true sight,",
|
2838
|
+
"And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?",
|
2839
|
+
"Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,",
|
2840
|
+
"That in the very refuse of thy deeds",
|
2841
|
+
"There is such strength and warrantise of skill,",
|
2842
|
+
"That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?",
|
2843
|
+
"Who taught thee how to make me love thee more,",
|
2844
|
+
"The more I hear and see just cause of hate?",
|
2845
|
+
"O! though I love what others do abhor,",
|
2846
|
+
"With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:",
|
2847
|
+
"If thy unworthiness rais'd love in me,",
|
2848
|
+
"More worthy I to be belov'd of thee."
|
2849
|
+
],
|
2850
|
+
"number": 150
|
2851
|
+
},
|
2852
|
+
{
|
2853
|
+
"lines": [
|
2854
|
+
"Love is too young to know what conscience is,",
|
2855
|
+
"Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?",
|
2856
|
+
"Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,",
|
2857
|
+
"Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:",
|
2858
|
+
"For, thou betraying me, I do betray",
|
2859
|
+
"My nobler part to my gross body's treason;",
|
2860
|
+
"My soul doth tell my body that he may",
|
2861
|
+
"Triumph in love; flesh stays no farther reason,",
|
2862
|
+
"But rising at thy name doth point out thee,",
|
2863
|
+
"As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,",
|
2864
|
+
"He is contented thy poor drudge to be,",
|
2865
|
+
"To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.",
|
2866
|
+
"No want of conscience hold it that I call",
|
2867
|
+
"Her 'love,' for whose dear love I rise and fall."
|
2868
|
+
],
|
2869
|
+
"number": 151
|
2870
|
+
},
|
2871
|
+
{
|
2872
|
+
"lines": [
|
2873
|
+
"In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,",
|
2874
|
+
"But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing;",
|
2875
|
+
"In act thy bed-vow broke, and new faith torn,",
|
2876
|
+
"In vowing new hate after new love bearing:",
|
2877
|
+
"But why of two oaths' breach do I accuse thee,",
|
2878
|
+
"When I break twenty? I am perjur'd most;",
|
2879
|
+
"For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,",
|
2880
|
+
"And all my honest faith in thee is lost:",
|
2881
|
+
"For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,",
|
2882
|
+
"Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy;",
|
2883
|
+
"And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,",
|
2884
|
+
"Or made them swear against the thing they see;",
|
2885
|
+
"For I have sworn thee fair; more perjur'd I,",
|
2886
|
+
"To swear against the truth so foul a lie.!"
|
2887
|
+
],
|
2888
|
+
"number": 152
|
2889
|
+
},
|
2890
|
+
{
|
2891
|
+
"lines": [
|
2892
|
+
"Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep:",
|
2893
|
+
"A maid of Dian's this advantage found,",
|
2894
|
+
"And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep",
|
2895
|
+
"In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;",
|
2896
|
+
"Which borrow'd from this holy fire of Love,",
|
2897
|
+
"A dateless lively heat, still to endure,",
|
2898
|
+
"And grew a seeting bath, which yet men prove",
|
2899
|
+
"Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.",
|
2900
|
+
"But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,",
|
2901
|
+
"The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;",
|
2902
|
+
"I, sick withal, the help of bath desired,",
|
2903
|
+
"And thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest,",
|
2904
|
+
"But found no cure, the bath for my help lies",
|
2905
|
+
"Where Cupid got new fire; my mistress' eyes."
|
2906
|
+
],
|
2907
|
+
"number": 153
|
2908
|
+
},
|
2909
|
+
{
|
2910
|
+
"lines": [
|
2911
|
+
"The little Love-god lying once asleep,",
|
2912
|
+
"Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,",
|
2913
|
+
"Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep",
|
2914
|
+
"Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand",
|
2915
|
+
"The fairest votary took up that fire",
|
2916
|
+
"Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;",
|
2917
|
+
"And so the general of hot desire",
|
2918
|
+
"Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarm'd.",
|
2919
|
+
"This brand she quenched in a cool well by,",
|
2920
|
+
"Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,",
|
2921
|
+
"Growing a bath and healthful remedy,",
|
2922
|
+
"For men diseas'd; but I, my mistress' thrall,",
|
2923
|
+
"Came there for cure and this by that I prove,",
|
2924
|
+
"Love's fire heats water, water cools not love."
|
2925
|
+
],
|
2926
|
+
"number": 154
|
2927
|
+
}
|
2928
|
+
]
|
2929
|
+
}
|