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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... waste in niggarding . Pity the world , or else this glutton be , To eat the world's due , by the grave and thee . II . > When forty winters shall besiege thy brow , And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field , Thy youth's proud livery ...
... waste hath in the world an end , And kept unus'd , the user so destroys it . No love toward others in that bosom sits , That on himself such murderous shame commits . X. For shame ! deny that thou bear'st love to any , Who for thyself ...
... wastes of time must go , Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake , And die as fast as they see others grow ; And nothing ' gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed , to brave him when he takes thee hence . XIII . O that ...
... waste : Then can I drown an eye , unus'd to flow , For precious friends hid in death's dateless night , And weep afresh love's long - since cancell'd woe , And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight . Then can I grieve at grievances ...
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