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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Sonnetsday 39



XLI.

Those petty 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 she have prevailed?
Ay me! but yet thou might'st 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.

 

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2 Comments:

Blogger Mophia said...

Happy Sonnetsday! :)

June 03, 2007 3:51 PM  
Blogger Anniina said...

Thanks :)

June 03, 2007 9:36 PM  

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