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71Sonnet 36 — Sonnet|36 Let me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one: So shall those blots that do with me remain, Without thy help, by me be borne alone. In our two loves there is but one respect, Though in our lives a… …
72Sonnet 38 — sonnet|38 How can my muse want subject to invent, While thou dost breathe, that pour st into my verse Thine own sweet argument, too excellent For every vulgar paper to rehearse? O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me Worthy perusal stand… …
73Sonnet 39 — Sonnet|39 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… …
74Sonnet 41 — Sonnet|41 Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits, When I am sometime absent from thy heart, Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits, For still temptation follows where thou art. Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won, Beauteous thou art,… …
75Sonnet 42 — Sonnet|42 That thou hast her it is not all my grief, And yet it may be said I loved her dearly; That she hath thee is of my wailing chief, A loss in love that touches me more nearly. Loving offenders thus I will excuse ye: Thou dost love her,… …
76Sonnet 43 — Sonnet|43 When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed. Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright …
77Sonnet 44 — Sonnet|44 If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, Injurious distance should not stop my way; For then despite of space I would be brought, From limits far remote, where thou dost stay. No matter then although my foot did stand Upon the… …
78Sonnet 45 — Sonnet|45 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… …
79Sonnet 46 — Sonnet|46 Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide the conquest of thy sight; Mine eye my heart thy picture s sight would bar, My heart mine eye the freedom of that right. My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie, A closet never …
80Sonnet 48 — Sonnet|48 How careful was I when I took my way, Each trifle under truest bars to thrust, That to my use it might unused stay From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust! But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are, Most worthy comfort, now my… …
