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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (75)
2023-12-06LXXV So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As ...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (76)
2023-12-06LXXVI Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from variation or quick change? Why with the time do I not glance aside To new-found methods, and...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (77)
2023-12-06LXXVII Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste; These vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear, ...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (78)
2023-12-06LXXVIII So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse, And found such fair assistance in my verse As every alien pen hath got my use And under thee their poe...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (79)
2023-12-06LXXIX Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse alone had all thy gentle grace; But now my gracious numbers are decay'd, And my sick Muse dot...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (80)
2023-12-06LXXX 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 ton...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (81)
2023-12-06LXXXI Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; From hence your memory death cannot take, Although in me each pa...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (82)
2023-12-06LXXXII I grant thou wert not married to my Muse, And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook The dedicated words which writers use Of their fair ...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (83)
2023-12-06LXXXIII I never saw that you did painting need, And therefore to your fair no painting set; I found, or thought I found, you did exceed That barren te...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (84)
2023-12-06LXXXIV Who is it that says most, which can say more, Than this rich praise,-that you alone, are you? In whose confine immured is the store Which shoul...