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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... face thou viewest , Now is the time that face should form another ; Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest , Thou dost beguile the world , unbless some mother . For where is she so fair whose unear's womb Disdains the tillage of ...
... faces . So should my papers , yellow'd with their age , Be scorn'd , like old men of less truth than tongue ; And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage , And stretched metre of an antique song : But were some child of yours alive ...
... . XX . A woman's face , with nature's own hand painted , Hast thou , the master - mistress of my passion ; A woman's gentle heart , but not acquainted With shifting change , as is false women's fashion ; Complete Sonnets 9.
... face new . Lo , thus , by day my limbs , by night my mind For thee , and for myself , no quiet find . XXVIII . How can I then return in happy plight , That am debarr'd the benefit of rest ? When day's oppression is not eas'd by night ...
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