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 sevices 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.
| About the poet |
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| By the same poet |
| Sonnet i |
| Sonnet ii |
| Sonnet iii |
| Sonnet iv |
| Sonnet v |
| Sonnet vi |
| Sonnet viii |
| Sonnet ix |
| Sonnet x |
| Sonnet xi |
| Sonnet xii |
| Sonnet xiii |
| Sonnet xiv |
| Sonnet xv |
| Sonnet xvi |
| Sonnet xvii |
| Sonnet xviii |
| Sonnet xix |
| Sonnet xx |
| Carpe Diem |
| Silvia |
| The Blossom |
| Spring and Winter (i) |
| Spring and Winter (ii) |
| Fairy Land (i) |
| Fairy Land (ii) |
| Fairy Land (iii) |
| Fairy Land (iv) |
| Fairy Land (v) |
| Love |
| Dirge |
| Under the Greenwood Tree |
| Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind |
| It was a Lover and his Lass |
| Take, O take those Lips away |
| Aubade |
| Fidele |
| The Phoenix and the Turtle |
| Related books |
| The Arden Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Sonnets, William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones (Editor) |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets (Penguin Classics), William Shakespeare |
| The Complete Sonnets [AUDIOBOOK], William Shakespeare, Michael Williams (Narrator), Peter Egan (Narrator), Peter Orr (Narrator), Bob Peck (Narrator) |
| William Shakespeare at amazon.co.uk |
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