In [21]:
# from future import print_function, absolute_import
import gensim
import gzip
sonnets_start = 172
sonnets_finish = 1000
def generate_lines(path='../../gensim/test/test_data/shakespeare-complete-works-gutenberg-project-pg100.txt.gz',
start=0,
finish=float('inf')):
with gzip.open(path) as f:
for i, line in enumerate(f):
if i <= start:
continue
# print("{}: {}".format(i, line.rstrip()))
yield line.rstrip()
if i >= finish:
break
if i > 100000:
break
list(generate_lines(start=sonnets_start))
Out[21]:
['1609',
'',
'THE SONNETS',
'',
'by William Shakespeare',
'',
'',
'',
' 1',
' From fairest creatures we desire increase,',
" That thereby beauty's rose might never die,",
' But as the riper should by time decease,',
' His tender heir might bear his memory:',
' But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,',
" Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,",
' Making a famine where abundance lies,',
' Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:',
" Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,",
' And only herald to the gaudy spring,',
' Within thine own bud buriest thy content,',
" And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:",
' Pity the world, or else this glutton be,',
" To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.",
'',
'',
' 2',
' When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,',
" And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,",
" Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now,",
' Will be a tattered weed of small worth held:',
' Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,',
' Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;',
' To say within thine own deep sunken eyes,',
' Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.',
" How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,",
" If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine",
" Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse'",
' Proving his beauty by succession thine.',
' This were to be new made when thou art old,',
" And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.",
'',
'',
' 3',
' Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest,',
' Now is the time that face should form another,',
' Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,',
' Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.',
' For where is she so fair whose uneared womb',
' Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?',
' Or who is he so fond will be the tomb,',
' Of his self-love to stop posterity?',
" Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee",
' Calls back the lovely April of her prime,',
' So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,',
' Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.',
' But if thou live remembered not to be,',
' Die single and thine image dies with thee.',
'',
'',
' 4',
' Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend,',
" Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?",
" Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend,",
' And being frank she lends to those are free:',
' Then beauteous niggard why dost thou abuse,',
' The bounteous largess given thee to give?',
' Profitless usurer why dost thou use',
' So great a sum of sums yet canst not live?',
' For having traffic with thy self alone,',
' Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive,',
' Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,',
' What acceptable audit canst thou leave?',
' Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,',
" Which used lives th' executor to be.",
'',
'',
' 5',
' Those hours that with gentle work did frame',
' The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell',
' Will play the tyrants to the very same,',
' And that unfair which fairly doth excel:',
' For never-resting time leads summer on',
' To hideous winter and confounds him there,',
' Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,',
" Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:",
" Then were not summer's distillation left",
' A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,',
" Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,",
' Nor it nor no remembrance what it was.',
' But flowers distilled though they with winter meet,',
' Leese but their show, their substance still lives sweet.',
'',
'',
' 6',
" Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,",
' In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled:',
' Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place,',
" With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed:",
' That use is not forbidden usury,',
' Which happies those that pay the willing loan;',
" That's for thy self to breed another thee,",
' Or ten times happier be it ten for one,',
' Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,',
' If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:',
' Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,',
' Leaving thee living in posterity?',
' Be not self-willed for thou art much too fair,',
" To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.",
'',
'',
' 7',
' Lo in the orient when the gracious light',
' Lifts up his burning head, each under eye',
' Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,',
' Serving with looks his sacred majesty,',
' And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill,',
' Resembling strong youth in his middle age,',
' Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,',
' Attending on his golden pilgrimage:',
' But when from highmost pitch with weary car,',
' Like feeble age he reeleth from the day,',
' The eyes (fore duteous) now converted are',
' From his low tract and look another way:',
' So thou, thy self out-going in thy noon:',
' Unlooked on diest unless thou get a son.',
'',
'',
' 8',
" Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?",
' Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:',
" Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,",
" Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?",
' If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,',
' By unions married do offend thine ear,',
' They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds',
' In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear:',
' Mark how one string sweet husband to another,',
' Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;',
' Resembling sire, and child, and happy mother,',
' Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:',
' Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,',
" Sings this to thee, 'Thou single wilt prove none'.",
'',
'',
' 9',
" Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,",
" That thou consum'st thy self in single life?",
' Ah, if thou issueless shalt hap to die,',
' The world will wail thee like a makeless wife,',
' The world will be thy widow and still weep,',
' That thou no form of thee hast left behind,',
' When every private widow well may keep,',
" By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind:",
' Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend',
' Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;',
" But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,",
' And kept unused the user so destroys it:',
' No love toward others in that bosom sits',
" That on himself such murd'rous shame commits.",
'',
'',
' 10',
" For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any",
' Who for thy self art so unprovident.',
' Grant if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,',
" But that thou none lov'st is most evident:",
" For thou art so possessed with murd'rous hate,",
" That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire,",
' Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate',
' Which to repair should be thy chief desire:',
' O change thy thought, that I may change my mind,',
' Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?',
' Be as thy presence is gracious and kind,',
' Or to thy self at least kind-hearted prove,',
' Make thee another self for love of me,',
' That beauty still may live in thine or thee.',
'',
'',
' 11',
" As fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow'st,",
' In one of thine, from that which thou departest,',
" And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st,",
' Thou mayst call thine, when thou from youth convertest,',
' Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase,',
' Without this folly, age, and cold decay,',
' If all were minded so, the times should cease,',
' And threescore year would make the world away:',
' Let those whom nature hath not made for store,',
' Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:',
' Look whom she best endowed, she gave thee more;',
' Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:',
' She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby,',
' Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.',
'',
'',
' 12',
' When I do count the clock that tells the time,',
' And see the brave day sunk in hideous night,',
' When I behold the violet past prime,',
" And sable curls all silvered o'er with white:",
' When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,',
' Which erst from heat did canopy the herd',
" And summer's green all girded up in sheaves",
' Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard:',
' Then of thy beauty do I question make',
' That thou among the wastes of time must go,',
' Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,',
' And die as fast as they see others grow,',
" And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence",
' Save breed to brave him, when he takes thee hence.',
'',
'',
' 13',
' O that you were your self, but love you are',
' No longer yours, than you your self here live,',
' Against this coming end you should prepare,',
' And your sweet semblance to some other give.',
' So should that beauty which you hold in lease',
' Find no determination, then you were',
" Your self again after your self's decease,",
' When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.',
' Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,',
' Which husbandry in honour might uphold,',
" Against the stormy gusts of winter's day",
" And barren rage of death's eternal cold?",
' O none but unthrifts, dear my love you know,',
' You had a father, let your son say so.',
'',
'',
' 14',
' Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,',
' And yet methinks I have astronomy,',
' But not to tell of good, or evil luck,',
" Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality,",
' Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell;',
' Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,',
' Or say with princes if it shall go well',
' By oft predict that I in heaven find.',
' But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,',
' And constant stars in them I read such art',
' As truth and beauty shall together thrive',
' If from thy self, to store thou wouldst convert:',
' Or else of thee this I prognosticate,',
" Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.",
'',
'',
' 15',
' When I consider every thing that grows',
' Holds in perfection but a little moment.',
' That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows',
' Whereon the stars in secret influence comment.',
' When I perceive that men as plants increase,',
' Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky:',
' Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,',
' And wear their brave state out of memory.',
' Then the conceit of this inconstant stay,',
' Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,',
' Where wasteful time debateth with decay',
' To change your day of youth to sullied night,',
' And all in war with Time for love of you,',
' As he takes from you, I engraft you new.',
'',
'',
' 16',
' But wherefore do not you a mightier way',
' Make war upon this bloody tyrant Time?',
' And fortify your self in your decay',
' With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?',
' Now stand you on the top of happy hours,',
' And many maiden gardens yet unset,',
' With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,',
' Much liker than your painted counterfeit:',
' So should the lines of life that life repair',
" Which this (Time's pencil) or my pupil pen",
' Neither in inward worth nor outward fair',
' Can make you live your self in eyes of men.',
' To give away your self, keeps your self still,',
' And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.',
'',
'',
' 17',
' Who will believe my verse in time to come',
' If it were filled with your most high deserts?',
' Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb',
' Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts:',
' If I could write the beauty of your eyes,',
' And in fresh numbers number all your graces,',
' The age to come would say this poet lies,',
" Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces.",
' So should my papers (yellowed with their age)',
' Be scorned, like old men of less truth than tongue,',
" And your true rights be termed a poet's rage,",
' And stretched metre of an antique song.',
' But were some child of yours alive that time,',
' You should live twice in it, and in my rhyme.',
'',
'',
' 18',
" Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?",
' Thou art more lovely and more temperate:',
' Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,',
" And summer's lease hath all too short a date:",
' Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,',
' And often is his gold complexion dimmed,',
' And every fair from fair sometime declines,',
" By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:",
' But thy eternal summer shall not fade,',
" Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,",
" Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,",
" When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,",
' So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,',
' So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.',
'',
'',
' 19',
" Devouring Time blunt thou the lion's paws,",
' And make the earth devour her own sweet brood,',
" Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,",
' And burn the long-lived phoenix, in her blood,',
" Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st,",
" And do whate'er thou wilt swift-footed Time",
' To the wide world and all her fading sweets:',
' But I forbid thee one most heinous crime,',
" O carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,",
' Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen,',
' Him in thy course untainted do allow,',
" For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.",
' Yet do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong,',
' My love shall in my verse ever live young.',
'',
'',
' 20',
" A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,",
' Hast thou the master mistress of my passion,',
" A woman's gentle heart but not acquainted",
" With shifting change as is false women's fashion,",
' An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling:',
' Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth,',
' A man in hue all hues in his controlling,',
" Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.",
' And for a woman wert thou first created,',
' Till nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting,',
' And by addition me of thee defeated,',
' By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.',
" But since she pricked thee out for women's pleasure,",
" Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.",
'',
'',
' 21',
' So is it not with me as with that muse,',
' Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,',
' Who heaven it self for ornament doth use,',
' And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,',
' Making a couplement of proud compare',
" With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems:",
" With April's first-born flowers and all things rare,",
" That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.",
' O let me true in love but truly write,',
' And then believe me, my love is as fair,',
" As any mother's child, though not so bright",
" As those gold candles fixed in heaven's air:",
' Let them say more that like of hearsay well,',
' I will not praise that purpose not to sell.',
'',
'',
' 22',
' My glass shall not persuade me I am old,',
' So long as youth and thou are of one date,',
" But when in thee time's furrows I behold,",
' Then look I death my days should expiate.',
' For all that beauty that doth cover thee,',
' Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,',
' Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me,',
' How can I then be elder than thou art?',
' O therefore love be of thyself so wary,',
' As I not for my self, but for thee will,',
' Bearing thy heart which I will keep so chary',
' As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.',
' Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain,',
" Thou gav'st me thine not to give back again.",
'',
'',
' 23',
' As an unperfect actor on the stage,',
' Who with his fear is put beside his part,',
' Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,',
" Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;",
' So I for fear of trust, forget to say,',
" The perfect ceremony of love's rite,",
" And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,",
" O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might:",
' O let my looks be then the eloquence,',
' And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,',
' Who plead for love, and look for recompense,',
' More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.',
' O learn to read what silent love hath writ,',
" To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.",
'',
'',
' 24',
' Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled,',
" Thy beauty's form in table of my heart,",
" My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,",
" And perspective it is best painter's art.",
' For through the painter must you see his skill,',
' To find where your true image pictured lies,',
" Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,",
' That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes:',
' Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done,',
' Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me',
' Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun',
' Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;',
' Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art,',
' They draw but what they see, know not the heart.',
'',
'',
' 25',
' Let those who are in favour with their stars,',
' Of public honour and proud titles boast,',
' Whilst I whom fortune of such triumph bars',
' Unlooked for joy in that I honour most;',
" Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread,",
" But as the marigold at the sun's eye,",
' And in themselves their pride lies buried,',
' For at a frown they in their glory die.',
' The painful warrior famoused for fight,',
' After a thousand victories once foiled,',
' Is from the book of honour razed quite,',
' And all the rest forgot for which he toiled:',
' Then happy I that love and am beloved',
' Where I may not remove nor be removed.',
'',
'',
' 26',
' Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage',
' Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit;',
' To thee I send this written embassage',
' To witness duty, not to show my wit.',
' Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine',
' May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it;',
' But that I hope some good conceit of thine',
" In thy soul's thought (all naked) will bestow it:",
' Till whatsoever star that guides my moving,',
' Points on me graciously with fair aspect,',
' And puts apparel on my tattered loving,',
' To show me worthy of thy sweet respect,',
' Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee,',
' Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me.',
'',
'',
' 27',
' Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,',
' The dear respose for limbs with travel tired,',
' But then begins a journey in my head',
" To work my mind, when body's work's expired.",
' For then my thoughts (from far where I abide)',
' Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,',
' And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,',
' Looking on darkness which the blind do see.',
" Save that my soul's imaginary sight",
' Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,',
' Which like a jewel (hung in ghastly night)',
' Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new.',
' Lo thus by day my limbs, by night my mind,',
' For thee, and for my self, no quiet find.',
'',
'',
' 28',
' How can I then return in happy plight',
' That am debarred the benefit of rest?',
" When day's oppression is not eased by night,",
' But day by night and night by day oppressed.',
" And each (though enemies to either's reign)",
' Do in consent shake hands to torture me,',
' The one by toil, the other to complain',
' How far I toil, still farther off from thee.',
' I tell the day to please him thou art bright,',
' And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:',
' So flatter I the swart-complexioned night,',
" When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.",
' But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer,',
" And night doth nightly make grief's length seem stronger",
'',
'',
' 29',
" When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,",
' I all alone beweep my outcast state,',
' And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,',
' And look upon my self and curse my fate,',
' Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,',
' Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,',
" Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,",
' With what I most enjoy contented least,',
' Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,',
' Haply I think on thee, and then my state,',
' (Like to the lark at break of day arising',
" From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate,",
' For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,',
' That then I scorn to change my state with kings.',
'',
'',
' 30',
' When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,',
' I summon up remembrance of things past,',
' I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,',
" And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:",
' Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow)',
" For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,",
" And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,",
" And moan th' expense of many a vanished sight.",
' Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,',
" And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er",
' The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,',
' Which I new pay as if not paid before.',
' But if the while I think on thee (dear friend)',
' All losses are restored, and sorrows end.',
'',
'',
' 31',
' Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,',
' Which I by lacking have supposed dead,',
" And there reigns love and all love's loving parts,",
' And all those friends which I thought buried.',
' How many a holy and obsequious tear',
" Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,",
' As interest of the dead, which now appear,',
' But things removed that hidden in thee lie.',
' Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,',
' Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,',
' Who all their parts of me to thee did give,',
' That due of many, now is thine alone.',
' Their images I loved, I view in thee,',
' And thou (all they) hast all the all of me.',
'',
'',
' 32',
' If thou survive my well-contented day,',
' When that churl death my bones with dust shall cover',
' And shalt by fortune once more re-survey',
' These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover:',
" Compare them with the bett'ring of the time,",
' And though they be outstripped by every pen,',
' Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,',
' Exceeded by the height of happier men.',
' O then vouchsafe me but this loving thought,',
" 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,",
' A dearer birth than this his love had brought',
' To march in ranks of better equipage:',
' But since he died and poets better prove,',
" Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love'.",
'',
'',
' 33',
' Full many a glorious morning have I seen,',
' Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,',
' Kissing with golden face the meadows green;',
' Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy:',
' Anon permit the basest clouds to ride,',
' With ugly rack on his celestial face,',
' And from the forlorn world his visage hide',
' Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:',
' Even so my sun one early morn did shine,',
' With all triumphant splendour on my brow,',
' But out alack, he was but one hour mine,',
' The region cloud hath masked him from me now.',
' Yet him for this, my love no whit disdaineth,',
" Suns of the world may stain, when heaven's sun staineth.",
'',
'',
' 34',
' Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,',
' And make me travel forth without my cloak,',
" To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,",
" Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke?",
" 'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,",
' To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,',
' For no man well of such a salve can speak,',
' That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:',
' Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief,',
' Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss,',
" Th' offender's sorrow lends but weak relief",
" To him that bears the strong offence's cross.",
' Ah but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,',
' And they are rich, and ransom all ill deeds.',
'',
'',
' 35',
' No more be grieved at that which thou hast done,',
' Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud,',
' Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,',
' And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.',
' All men make faults, and even I in this,',
' Authorizing thy trespass with compare,',
' My self corrupting salving thy amiss,',
' Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are:',
' For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,',
' Thy adverse party is thy advocate,',
" And 'gainst my self a lawful plea commence:",
' Such civil war is in my love and hate,',
' That I an accessary needs must be,',
' To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.',
'',
'',
' 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 separable spite,',
" Which though it alter not love's sole effect,",
" Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.",
' I may not evermore acknowledge thee,',
' Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,',
' Nor thou with public kindness honour me,',
' Unless thou take that honour from thy name:',
' But do not so, I love thee in such sort,',
' As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.',
'',
'',
' 37',
' As a decrepit father takes delight,',
' To see his active child do deeds of youth,',
" So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite",
' Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.',
' For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,',
' Or any of these all, or all, or more',
' Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,',
' I make my love engrafted to this store:',
' So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,',
' Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give,',
' That I in thy abundance am sufficed,',
' And by a part of all thy glory live:',
' Look what is best, that best I wish in thee,',
' This wish I have, then ten times happy me.',
'',
'',
' 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 against thy sight,',
" For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,",
' When thou thy self dost give invention light?',
' Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth',
' Than those old nine which rhymers invocate,',
' And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth',
' Eternal numbers to outlive long date.',
' If my slight muse do please these curious days,',
' The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.',
'',
'',
' 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 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.',
'',
'',
' 40',
' 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 blamed, if thou thy self deceivest',
' By wilful taste of what thy self 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.',
'',
'',
' 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, therefore to be assailed.',
" And when a woman woos, what woman's son,",
' Will sourly leave her till he have prevailed?',
' Ay me, but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,',
' And chide thy beauty, and thy straying youth,',
' Who lead thee in their riot even there',
' Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:',
' Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,',
' Thine by thy beauty being false to me.',
'',
'',
' 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, because thou know'st I love her,",
' And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,',
" Suff'ring my friend for my sake to approve her.",
" If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,",
' And losing her, my friend hath found that loss,',
' Both find each other, and I lose both twain,',
' And both for my sake lay on me this cross,',
" But here's the joy, my friend and I are one,",
' Sweet flattery, then she loves but me alone.',
'',
'',
' 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',
" How would thy shadow's form, form happy show,",
' To the clear day with thy much clearer light,',
' When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!',
' How would (I say) mine eyes be blessed made,',
' By looking on thee in the living day,',
' When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade,',
' Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!',
' All days are nights to see till I see thee,',
' And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.',
'',
'',
' 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 farthest earth removed from thee,',
' For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,',
' As soon as think the place where he would be.',
' But ah, thought kills me that I am not thought',
' To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,',
' But that so much of earth and water wrought,',
" I must attend, time's leisure with my moan.",
' Receiving nought by elements so slow,',
" But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.",
'',
'',
' 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 love to thee,',
' My life being made of four, with two alone,',
' Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy.',
" Until life's composition be recured,",
' By those swift messengers returned from thee,',
' Who even but now come back again assured,',
' 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.',
'',
'',
' 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 pierced with crystal eyes)',
' But the defendant doth that plea deny,',
' And says in him thy fair appearance lies.',
' To side this title is impanelled',
' A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,',
' And by their verdict is determined',
" The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part.",
" As thus, mine eye's due is thy outward part,",
" And my heart's right, thy inward love of heart.",
'',
'',
' 47',
' Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,',
' And each doth good turns now unto the other,',
' When that mine eye is famished for a look,',
' Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother;',
" With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,",
' And to the painted banquet bids my heart:',
" Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,",
' And in his thoughts of love doth share a part.',
' So either by thy picture or my love,',
' Thy self away, art present still with me,',
' For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,',
' And I am still with them, and they with thee.',
' Or if they sleep, thy picture in my sight',
" Awakes my heart, to heart's and eye's delight.",
'',
'',
' 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 greatest grief,',
' Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,',
' Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.',
' Thee have I not locked up in any chest,',
' Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,',
' Within the gentle closure of my breast,',
' From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part,',
" And even thence thou wilt be stol'n I fear,",
' For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.',
'',
'',
' 49',
' Against that time (if ever that time come)',
' When I shall see thee frown on my defects,',
' When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,',
' Called to that audit by advised respects,',
' Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass,',
' And scarcely greet me with that sun thine eye,',
' When love converted from the thing it was',
' Shall reasons find of settled gravity;',
' Against that time do I ensconce me here',
' Within the knowledge of mine own desert,',
' And this my hand, against my self uprear,',
' To guard the lawful reasons on thy part,',
' To leave poor me, thou hast the strength of laws,',
' Since why to love, I can allege no cause.',
'',
'',
' 50',
' How heavy do I journey on the way,',
" When what I seek (my weary travel's end)",
' Doth teach that case and that repose to say',
" 'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend.'",
' The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,',
' Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,',
' As if by some instinct the wretch did know',
' His rider loved not speed being made from thee:',
' The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,',
' That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,',
' Which heavily he answers with a groan,',
' More sharp to me than spurring to his side,',
' For that same groan doth put this in my mind,',
' My grief lies onward and my joy behind.',
'',
'',
' 51',
' Thus can my love excuse the slow offence,',
' Of my dull bearer, when from thee I speed,',
' From where thou art, why should I haste me thence?',
' Till I return of posting is no need.',
' O what excuse will my poor beast then find,',
' When swift extremity can seem but slow?',
' Then should I spur though mounted on the wind,',
' In winged speed no motion shall I know,',
' Then can no horse with my desire keep pace,',
" Therefore desire (of perfect'st love being made)",
' Shall neigh (no dull flesh) in his fiery race,',
' But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade,',
' Since from thee going, he went wilful-slow,',
" Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.",
'',
'',
' 52',
' So am I as the rich whose blessed key,',
' Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,',
' The which he will not every hour survey,',
' For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.',
' Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,',
' Since seldom coming in that long year set,',
' Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,',
' Or captain jewels in the carcanet.',
' So is the time that keeps you as my chest',
' Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,',
' To make some special instant special-blest,',
' By new unfolding his imprisoned pride.',
' Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,',
' Being had to triumph, being lacked to hope.',
'',
'',
' 53',
' What is your substance, whereof are you made,',
' That millions of strange shadows on you tend?',
' Since every one, hath every one, one shade,',
' And you but one, can every shadow lend:',
' Describe Adonis and the counterfeit,',
' Is poorly imitated after you,',
" On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,",
' And you in Grecian tires are painted new:',
' Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,',
' The one doth shadow of your beauty show,',
' The other as your bounty doth appear,',
' And you in every blessed shape we know.',
' In all external grace you have some part,',
' But you like none, none you for constant heart.',
'',
'',
' 54',
' O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,',
' By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!',
' The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem',
' For that sweet odour, which doth in it live:',
' The canker blooms have full as deep a dye,',
' As the perfumed tincture of the roses,',
' Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly,',
" When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:",
' But for their virtue only is their show,',
' They live unwooed, and unrespected fade,',
' Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so,',
' Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:',
' And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,',
' When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.',
'',
'',
' 55',
' Not marble, nor the gilded monuments',
' Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,',
' But you shall shine more bright in these contents',
' Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.',
' When wasteful war shall statues overturn,',
' And broils root out the work of masonry,',
" Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn:",
' The living record of your memory.',
" 'Gainst death, and all-oblivious enmity",
' Shall you pace forth, your praise shall still find room,',
' Even in the eyes of all posterity',
' That wear this world out to the ending doom.',
' So till the judgment that your self arise,',
" You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.",
'',
'',
' 56',
' Sweet love renew thy force, be it not said',
' Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,',
' Which but to-day by feeding is allayed,',
' To-morrow sharpened in his former might.',
' So love be thou, although to-day thou fill',
' Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,',
' To-morrow see again, and do not kill',
' The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness:',
' Let this sad interim like the ocean be',
' Which parts the shore, where two contracted new,',
' Come daily to the banks, that when they see:',
' Return of love, more blest may be the view.',
' Or call it winter, which being full of care,',
" Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.",
'',
'',
' 57',
' Being your slave what should I do but tend,',
' Upon the hours, and times of your desire?',
' I have no precious time at all to spend;',
' Nor services to do till you require.',
' Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,',
' Whilst I (my sovereign) watch the clock for you,',
' Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,',
' When you have bid your servant once adieu.',
' Nor dare I question with my jealous thought,',
' Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,',
' But like a sad slave stay and think of nought',
' Save where you are, how happy you make those.',
' So true a fool is love, that in your will,',
' (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill.',
'',
'',
' 58',
' That god forbid, that made me first your slave,',
' I should in thought control your times of pleasure,',
" Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave,",
' Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.',
' O let me suffer (being at your beck)',
" Th' imprisoned absence of your liberty,",
' And patience tame to sufferance bide each check,',
' Without accusing you of injury.',
' Be where you list, your charter is so strong,',
' That you your self may privilage your time',
' To what you will, to you it doth belong,',
' Your self to pardon of self-doing crime.',
' I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,',
' Not blame your pleasure be it ill or well.',
'',
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' 59',
' If there be nothing new, but that which is,',
' Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled,',
' Which labouring for invention bear amis',
' The second burthen of a former child!',
' O that record could with a backward look,',
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