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| To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. | |
| And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. | |
| Die single, and thine image dies with thee. | |
| Which, used, lives th' executor to be. | |
| Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet. | |
| To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir. | |
| Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son. | |
| Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.' | |
| That on himself such murderous shame commits. | |
| That beauty still may live in thine or thee. | |
| Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die. | |
| Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. | |
| You had a father: let your son say so. | |
| Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date. | |
| As he takes from you, I engraft you new. | |
| And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill. | |
| You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme. | |
| So long lives this and this gives life to thee. | |
| My love shall in my verse ever live young. | |
| Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. | |
| I will not praise that purpose not to sell. | |
| Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again. | |
| To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. | |
| They draw but what they see, know not the heart. | |
| Where I may not remove nor be removed. | |
| Till then not show my head where thou mayst prove me. | |
| For thee and for myself no quiet find. | |
| And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger. | |
| That then I scorn to change my state with kings. | |
| All losses are restored and sorrows end. | |
| And thou, all they, hast all the all of me. | |
| Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.' | |
| Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth. | |
| And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds. | |
| To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me. | |
| As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report. | |
| This wish I have; then ten times happy me! | |
| The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise. | |
| By praising him here who doth hence remain! | |
| Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes. | |
| Thine, by thy beauty being false to me. | |
| Sweet flattery! then she loves but me alone. | |
| And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. | |
| But heavy tears, badges of either's woe. | |
| I send them back again and straight grow sad. | |
| And my heart's right thy inward love of heart. | |
| Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight. | |
| For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear. | |
| Since why to love I can allege no cause. | |
| My grief lies onward and my joy behind. | |
| Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go. | |
| Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope. | |
| But you like none, none you, for constant heart. | |
| When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth. | |
| You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes. | |
| Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare. | |
| Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill. | |
| Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well. | |
| To subjects worse have given admiring praise. | |
| Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. | |
| From me far off, with others all too near. | |
| Painting my age with beauty of thy days. | |
| And they shall live, and he in them still green. | |
| But weep to have that which it fears to lose. | |
| That in black ink my love may still shine bright. | |
| Save that, to die, I leave my love alone. | |
| In days long since, before these last so bad. | |
| To show false Art what beauty was of yore. | |
| The solve is this, that thou dost common grow. | |
| Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe. | |
| And mock you with me after I am gone. | |
| And so should you, to love things nothing worth. | |
| To love that well which thou must leave ere long. | |
| And that is this, and this with thee remains. | |
| Or gluttoning on all, or all away. | |
| So is my love still telling what is told. | |
| Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book. | |
| As high as learning my rude ignorance. | |
| Since what he owes thee thou thyself dost pay. | |
| The worst was this; my love was my decay. | |
| Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. | |
| Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused. | |
| Than both your poets can in praise devise. | |
| Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse. | |
| Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. | |
| Then lack'd I matter; that enfeebled mine. | |
| In sleep a king, but waking no such matter. | |
| That for thy right myself will bear all wrong. | |
| For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate. | |
| Compared with loss of thee will not seem so. | |
| All this away and me most wretched make. | |
| Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not. | |
| if thy sweet virtue answer not thy show! | |
| Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. | |
| The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge. | |
| As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report. | |
| That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near. | |
| As with your shadow I with these did play: | |
| But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee. | |
| So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife. | |
| To make him seem long hence as he shows now. | |
| Because I would not dull you with my song. | |
| Your own glass shows you when you look in it. | |
| Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead. | |
| Which three till now never kept seat in one. | |
| Had eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. | |
| When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent. | |
| Where time and outward form would show it dead. | |
| Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all. | |
| Even to thy pure and most most loving breast. | |
| Even that your pity is enough to cure me. | |
| That all the world besides methinks are dead. | |
| My most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue. | |
| That mine eye loves it and doth first begin. | |
| To give full growth to that which still doth grow? | |
| I never writ, nor no man ever loved. | |
| The constancy and virtue of your love. | |
| Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you. | |
| And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent. | |
| Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me. | |
| All men are bad, and in their badness reign. | |
| Were to import forgetfulness in me. | |
| I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee. | |
| Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime. | |
| When most impeach'd stands least in thy control. | |
| And her quietus is to render thee. | |
| That every tongue says beauty should look so. | |
| Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss. | |
| To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. | |
| As any she belied with false compare. | |
| And thence this slander, as I think, proceeds. | |
| And all they foul that thy complexion lack. | |
| Perforce am thine, and all that is in me. | |
| He pays the whole, and yet am I not free. | |
| Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.' | |
| And then thou lovest me, for my name is 'Will.' | |
| And to this false plague are they now transferr'd. | |
| And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be. | |
| Kill me outright with looks and rid my pain. | |
| Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide. | |
| That she that makes me sin awards me pain. | |
| By self-example mayst thou be denied! | |
| If thou turn back, and my loud crying still. | |
| Till my bad angel fire my good one out. | |
| And saved my life, saying 'not you.' | |
| And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. | |
| Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. | |
| Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find. | |
| Those that can see thou lovest, and I am blind. | |
| More worthy I to be beloved of thee. | |
| Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall. | |
| To swear against the truth so foul a lie! | |
| Where Cupid got new fire--my mistress' eyes. | |
| Love's fire heats water, water cools not love. | |