Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing
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!
Similar poems:
- Sonnet XXXIX O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me? What can […]...
- Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, While comments of your praise, richly compiled, Reserve their character with golden […]...
- Sonnet XXXVI Let me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one: So shall those blots that […]...
- Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain Let me confess that we two must be twain, Although our undivided loves are one; So shall those blots that […]...
- Sonnet XLVII Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, And each doth good turns now unto the other: When that […]...
- Sonnet 47: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, And each doth good turns now unto the other, When that […]...
- Sonnet LXXIX Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse alone had all thy gentle grace, But now my gracious […]...
- Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse alone had all thy gentle grace, But now my gracious […]...
- Holy Sonnet I: Tho Has Made Me Tho has made me, and shall thy work decay? Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste; I run […]...
- Sonnet I: Love Song Shalt Cupid be blamed thou doth dominate Dwelling in days and nights with dignity? With this self as my only […]...
- You Remain As a perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded […]...
- O Word I Love to Sing O word I love to sing! thou art too tender For all the passions agitating me; For all my bitterness […]...
- Sonnet LXI Is it thy will thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my […]...
- Sonnet 61: Is it thy will thy image should keep open Is it thy will thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my […]...
- Sonnet XXII My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But […]...
- Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old My glass shall not persuade me I am old So long as youth and thou are of one date; But […]...
- Sonnet LXIX Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend; All […]...
- Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend; All […]...
- Sonnet XLVI Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war How to divide the conquest of thy sight; Mine eye my […]...
- Sonnet LXXIII That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those […]...
- That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73) That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those […]...
- Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war How to divide the conquest of thy sight; Mine eye my […]...
- Sonnet XCV How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the […]...
- Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty’s legacy? Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And […]...
- Sonnet (II) Sure Lord, there is enough in thee to dry Oceans of Ink ; for, as the Deluge did Cover the […]...
- Sonnet LXX That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander’s mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of […]...
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold That time of year thou mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon those […]...
- Sonnet IV Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thyself thy beauty’s legacy? Nature’s bequest gives nothing but doth lend, And being […]...
- Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the […]...
- Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty’s legacy? Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And […]...