William Shakespeare (ca. 1564-1616)
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took
Sonnet 47
1Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
2And each doth good turns now unto the other.
3When that mine eye is famish't for a look,
4Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
5With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,
6And to the painted banquet bids my heart:
7An other time mine eye is my heart's guest,
8And in his thoughts of love doth share a part.
9So either by thy picture or my love,
10Thy self away, are present still with me,
11For thou nor farther than my thoughts can'st move,
12And I am still with them, and they with thee.
13 Or if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
14 Awakes my heart to heart's and eyes' delight.
Notes
2] other] elided, or the line is (like line 4) extrametrical.
6] bids] invites.
10] are] Given the subject "either" (9), "is" might be expected. self] seife Q.
11] nor] no.
12] still] always.
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Original text: SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): d2v.
First publication date:
1609
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2008
Recent editing: 1:2008/8/24
Form: sonnet
Rhyme: ababcdcdefefgg
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