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If there be nothing new, but that which… Hath been before, how are our brains beg… Which, labouring for invention bear amis The second burthen of a former child! O, that record could with a backward loo…
#Sonnet #TheSonnets
Mine eye hath played the painter and hat… Thy beauty’s form in table of my heart; My body is the frame wherein ’tis held, And perspective it is best painter’s art… For through the painter must you see his…
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence Of my dull bearer, when from thee I spe… From where thou art, why should I haste… Till I return, of posting is no need. O, what excuse will my poor beast then f…
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse alone had all thy gentle grace, But now my gracious numbers are decayed, And my sick Muse doth give an other pla… I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument
Love is too young to know what conscienc… Yet who knows not conscience is born of… Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self… For, thou betraying me, I do betray
From fairest creatures we desire increas… That thereby beauty’s rose might never d… But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright…
When my love swears that she is made of… I do believe her, though I know she lie… That she might think me some untutor’d y… Unlearned in the world’s false subtletie… Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me…
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Our revels now are ended. These our act… As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vi… The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous pa…
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind As man’s ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen,
What’s in the brain that ink may charact… Which hath not figured to thee my true s… What’s new to speak, what now to registe… That may express my love, or thy dear me… Nothing, sweet boy, but yet, like prayer…
From you have I been absent in the spri… When proud pied April, dressed in all h… Hath put a spirit of youth in every thin… That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt wit… Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet…
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so,
O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear! your true-love’s coming That can sing both high and low; Trip no further, pretty sweeting, Journey’s end in lovers’ meeting–
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not s… Thy edge should blunter be than appetite… Which but to—day by feeding is allayed, To—morrow sharpened in his former might: So, love, be thou, although to—day thou…