Best Famous Xcv Poems
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Written by
William Shakespeare |
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!
That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making lascivious comments on thy sport,
Cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise;
Naming thy name blesses an ill report.
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot,
And all things turn to fair that eyes can see!
Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege;
The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.
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Written by
Francesco Petrarch |
[Pg 108] SONNET XCV. Rimansi addietro il sestodecim' anno. THOUGH HE IS UNHAPPY, HIS LOVE REMAINS EVER UNCHANGED. My sixteenth year of sighs its course has run,I stand alone, already on the browWhere Age descends: and yet it seems as nowMy time of trial only were begun.'Tis sweet to love, and good to be undone;Though life be hard, more days may Heaven allowMisfortune to outlive: else Death may bowThe bright head low my loving praise that won.Here am I now who fain would be elsewhere;More would I wish and yet no more I would;I could no more and yet did all I could:And new tears born of old desires declareThat still I am as I was wont to be,And that a thousand changes change not me. Macgregor.
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