XLV



The other two, slight air, and purging fire

Are both with thee, wherever I abide;

The first my thought, the other my desire,

These present-absent with swift motion slide.

For when these quicker elements are gone

In tender embassy of love to thee,

My life, being made of four, with two alone

Sinks down to death, oppress\'d with melancholy;

Until life\'s composition be recur\'d

By those swift messengers return\'d from thee,

Who even but now come back again, assur\'d,

Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:

  This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,

  I send them back again, and straight grow sad.

 	--William Shakespeare

LXXX



O! how I faint when I of you do write,

Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,

And in the praise thereof spends all his might,

To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame!

But since your worth--wide as the ocean is,--

The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,

My saucy bark, inferior far to his,

On your broad main doth wilfully appear.

Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,

Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;

Or, being wrack\'d, I am a worthless boat,

He of tall building, and of goodly pride:

  Then if he thrive and I be cast away,

  The worst was this,--my love was my decay.

 	--William Shakespeare

XXXIX



O! how thy worth with manners may I sing,

When thou art all the better part of me?

What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?

And what is\'t but mine own when I praise thee?

Even for this, let us divided live,

And our dear love lose name of single one,

That by this separation I may give

That due to thee which thou deserv\'st alone.

O absence! what a torment wouldst thou prove,

Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave,

To entertain the time with thoughts of love,

Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive, 

  And that thou teachest how to make one twain,

  By praising him here who doth hence remain.

 

XL



Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;

What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?

No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;

All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.

Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,

I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;

But yet be blam\'d, if thou thy self deceivest

By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.

I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,

Although thou steal thee all my poverty:

And yet, love knows it is a greater grief

To bear greater wrong, than hate\'s known injury.

  Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,

  Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.

 	--William Shakespeare

Topics	Author	Date
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings. Bible  new	Henry David Thoreau	02-16-05 18:55
buy @!#$  new	buy @!#$	07-28-05 18:43
credit card  new	credit card	07-29-05 03:04
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	07-29-05 13:30
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far to  new	Shakespeare	07-30-05 10:15
CXLVIII O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head, Which ha  new	Shakespeare	10-09-05 03:39
bet  new	poker	10-09-05 11:51
tamiflu price  new	tamiflu price	10-20-05 23:09
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the un  new	Shakespeare	07-30-05 22:47
loans  new	loans	10-14-05 01:58
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not u  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-19-05 23:01
XXVIII How can I then return in happy plight, That am deba  new	Shakespeare	08-04-05 09:48
Business today consists in persuading crowds. T. S. Eliot  new	Shakespeare	10-04-05 06:15
juegos interactivos portales  new	juegos interactivos portales	10-07-05 16:57
game  new	games	10-16-05 05:29
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equat  new	Henry David Thoreau	08-04-05 19:16
XIV Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck; And yet me  new	Shakespeare	10-03-05 18:21
win  new	win	10-15-05 20:25
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Th  new	Shakespeare	10-19-05 10:04
tamiflu  new	tamiflu	10-21-05 02:03
tamiflu  new	tamiflu	10-21-05 02:10
Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common se  new	Shakespeare	08-05-05 20:15
This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man. Ed  new	Henry David Thoreau	10-05-05 05:17
store  new	bonus	10-18-05 09:06
click  new	online casinos best calculator	10-19-05 23:55
gambling  new	win	10-09-05 05:26
Re: gambling  new	Derrick	10-23-05 05:19
cash advance  new	cash advance	10-14-05 03:42
bet  new	betting	10-16-05 04:23
game  new	casino	10-16-05 20:57
for fun play money texas hold em  new	play money texas hold em deposit code	10-17-05 17:37
bonus  new	prescription	10-19-05 15:09
buy tamiflu  new	buy tamiflu	10-21-05 00:38
Beauty is a primeval phenomenen, which itself never makes its app  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	08-06-05 09:36
price  new	store	10-04-05 11:53
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of it  new	Shakespeare	10-05-05 19:06
win  new	sports book casino offer	10-09-05 09:56
bonus  new	bonus	10-16-05 01:29
LXXV So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as swee  new	Shakespeare	08-06-05 16:56
roulette  new	roulette	10-06-05 14:57
bonus  new	bonus	10-07-05 16:14
win  new	tip casinos pagina web	10-15-05 04:37
tournament  new	reload bonuses ganar premios pagina w	10-15-05 19:40
deflivery  new	online buy xanax online from us pharm	10-19-05 09:26
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you ar  new	Hamlet	08-07-05 02:54
bad credit loans  new	bad credit loans	10-14-05 01:49
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.  new	Shakespeare	08-07-05 11:30
price  new	caribbean online pharmacy prescriptio	10-04-05 15:20
canadian pharmacy store news  new	phatmacy	10-05-05 03:40
tournament  new	news poker keno keno texas holdem web	10-20-05 02:12
tamiflu no prescription  new	tamiflu no prescription	10-21-05 01:48
baccarat pagina web  new	baccarat pagina web	10-07-05 13:57
Love: St. Augustine Quotes Love is the beauty of the soul.  new	Hamlet	10-13-05 02:26
bad credit loans  new	bad credit loans	10-22-05 05:30
I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music. T. S. Eliot  new	Shakespeare	08-09-05 17:12
free slots  new	free slots	10-06-05 09:57
personal loans  new	personal loans	10-21-05 22:45
Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country  new	Shakespeare	10-07-05 11:26
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but Wo  new	Shakespeare	10-09-05 10:25
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by unders  new	Shakespeare	10-10-05 03:07
tournament  new	bet	10-11-05 19:46
discover card  new	discover card	10-14-05 00:57
bonus  new	gambling	10-17-05 00:05
review  new	review	10-19-05 12:13
The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Shakespeare	08-09-05 17:14
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. --R. W. Emers  new	Shakespeare	10-10-05 09:04
credit card application  new	credit card application	08-11-05 19:34
bonus  new	phatmacy	10-19-05 12:11
tamiflu and no prescription  new	tamiflu and no prescription	10-20-05 21:31
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not  new	Shakespeare	08-13-05 11:53
personal loans  new	personal loans	10-21-05 22:26
LXXXVII Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And  new	Hamlet	08-15-05 23:10
tournament  new	win online poker	08-16-05 12:21
CXVIII Like as, to make our appetite more keen, With eager  new	Shakespeare	08-18-05 13:54
gambling  new	game	10-10-05 07:49
tournament  new	tournament	10-11-05 12:03
tournament  new	tournament	10-11-05 12:21
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. --Albert Einste  new	Henry David Thoreau	10-16-05 21:26
home loans  new	home loans	10-22-05 06:22
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a pla  new	Shakespeare	08-20-05 04:38
gambling  new	gambling	10-06-05 10:19
maquina tragaperras paginas web  new	maquina tragaperras paginas web	10-07-05 11:46
Beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence retur  new	Shakespeare	10-16-05 02:06
tamiflu no prescription  new	tamiflu no prescription	10-20-05 21:55
XC Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; Now, while t  new	Shakespeare	08-20-05 19:02
bonus  new	poker	10-08-05 15:49
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -Shakespeare  new	Shakespeare	10-11-05 22:07
purchase tamiflu  new	purchase tamiflu	10-20-05 10:25
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	08-21-05 03:59
If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for b  new	Shakespeare	10-05-05 20:10
mortgage  new	mortgage	10-22-05 06:24
Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein  new	Shakespeare	10-08-05 12:14
Founding Fathers Quotes Before a standing army can rule, the p  new	Hamlet	10-13-05 16:32
game  new	free download game game	10-17-05 00:22
tamiflu 20  new	tamiflu 20	10-20-05 07:39
Love is the beauty of the soul. St. Augustine  new	Shakespeare	08-22-05 11:51
pill  new	pill	10-04-05 14:30
phatmacy  new	order pharmacy technician jobs canada	10-05-05 02:47
game  new	learn video poker data	10-08-05 13:17
Beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence retur  new	Shakespeare	10-10-05 19:43
gambling  new	tournament	10-11-05 20:36
phatmacy  new	prescription	10-12-05 17:09
tamiflu no prescription  new	tamiflu no prescription	10-20-05 23:01
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	08-23-05 17:11
CXXIX The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action: and til  new	Henry David Thoreau	10-06-05 11:22
XLVII Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, And eac  new	Shakespeare	10-14-05 18:23
XVI But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon  new	Shakespeare	08-26-05 14:58
click here  new	deflivery	10-04-05 13:51
prescription  new	bonus	10-05-05 02:01
Founding Fathers Quotes And it is no less true, that personal  new	Shakespeare	10-13-05 01:26
cash advance  new	cash advance	10-21-05 20:58
LXVI Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to  new	Hamlet	08-27-05 06:38
CXXIII No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: Th  new	Shakespeare	08-27-05 23:40
XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	08-31-05 23:13
win  new	betting	10-10-05 07:14
mortgage rates  new	mortgage rates	10-14-05 03:32
click here  new	no download free strip black jack	10-18-05 03:58
credit card application  new	credit card application	10-22-05 06:02
credit card application  new	credit card application	10-22-05 06:04
LXXXI Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	09-04-05 02:16
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in th  new	Shakespeare	10-07-05 13:15
freeroll largest lottery jackpot  new	bonus	10-11-05 20:49
XXVII Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear resp  new	Shakespeare	09-05-05 16:59
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kin  new	Shakespeare	10-11-05 12:59
bet  new	casino	10-17-05 03:19
VI Then let not winter's ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere tho  new	Henry David Thoreau	10-19-05 09:40
gambling  new	gambling	10-20-05 01:59
relenza without prescription  new	relenza without prescription	10-20-05 10:54
Founding Fathers Quotes Eloquence has been defined to be the a  new	Shakespeare	09-14-05 20:59
win  new	bonus	10-08-05 12:52
deflivery  new	price	10-13-05 17:06
mortgage rates  new	mortgage rates	10-14-05 01:50
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way o  new	Shakespeare	09-15-05 12:20
betting  new	betting	10-18-05 01:40
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -  new	Shakespeare	09-18-05 06:23
personal loans  new	personal loans	10-21-05 22:41
order @!#$  new	order @!#$	09-20-05 16:32
betting  new	reviews	09-21-05 20:39
games  new	win	09-23-05 03:08
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson  new	Shakespeare	10-09-05 14:30
XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day s  new	Henry David Thoreau	10-19-05 11:35
personal loans  new	personal loans	10-22-05 03:59
tournament  new	win	10-11-05 13:09
tournament  new	games	10-18-05 05:00
directory  new	casino	09-26-05 02:10
home loans  new	home loans	10-22-05 03:41
credit card application  new	credit card application	10-01-05 07:37
Founding Fathers Quotes Do not fire unless fired upon. But if  new	Hamlet	10-02-05 01:36
price  new	price	10-04-05 23:18
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions ov  new	Shakespeare	10-05-05 18:21
tournament  new	tournament	10-16-05 05:49
bet  new	games	10-18-05 05:15
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say wh  new	Shakespeare	10-20-05 02:33
Action: St. Augustine Quotes God provides the wind, but man must  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-07-05 10:06
CXVII Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all, Wherein I s  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 14:58
bonus  new	bonus	10-19-05 07:20
In my beginning is my end. T. S. Eliot  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-10-05 01:51
win  new	bonus	10-16-05 09:54
game  new	black caribbean casino jack stud foru	10-18-05 01:13
XCI Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, Some i  new	Hamlet	10-18-05 06:11
treatment for avian flu  new	treatment for avian flu	10-20-05 06:29
CVIII What's in the brain, that ink may character, Which  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-10-05 01:52
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow so  new	Shakespeare	10-11-05 19:05
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but  new	Henry David Thoreau	10-16-05 23:16
LXXV So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd show  new	Henry David Thoreau	10-18-05 01:23
click  new	purchase online meds no prescription	10-19-05 05:54
tamiflu mexico  new	tamiflu mexico	10-20-05 06:36

Forum List  |  New Topic  |  Go to Top  |  Go to Topic  |  Flat View  |  Search
Reply To This Message
Your Name:
Your Email:
Subject:
Email replies to this thread, to the address above.