Complete SonnetsWithout a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity of "the dark lady" and the "lovely boy" to whom the vast majority are addressed. Controversy has also long simmered over the full name of the "W.H." of the dedication. What is not in dispute is the superior quality of these lyrics, which rank among the finest sonnets ever written — in any language. |
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... bear his memory : But thou , contracted to thine own bright eyes , Feed'st thy light's flame with self - substantial fuel , Making a famine where abundance lies , Thyself thy foe , to thy sweet self too cruel . Thou that art now the ...
... do but sweetly chide thee , who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear . Mark how one string , sweet husband to another , Strikes each in each by mutual ordering ; Resembling sire 4 William Shakespeare.
... bear'st love to any , Who for thyself art so unprovident . Grant if thou wilt thou art belov'd of many , But that thou none lov'st is most evident ; For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate , That'gainst thyself thou stick'st not ...
... bear . Who lets so fair a house fall to decay , Which husbandry in honour might uphold Against the stormy gusts of winter's day , And barren rage of death's eternal cold ? O ! none but unthrifts : -Dear my love , you know You had a ...
... bear your living flowers , Much liker than your painted counterfeit : So should the lines of life that life repair , Which this , Time's pencil , or my pupil pen , Neither in inward worth , nor outward fair , Can make you live yourself ...