Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those lips that love's own hand did make

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Those lips that love's own hand did make

Sonnet 145

Original Text
SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): i3r.
1Those lips that love's own hand did make
2Breath'd forth the sound that said, "I hate,"
3To me that languish't for her sake,
4But when she saw my woeful state,
5Straight in her heart did mercy come,
6Chiding that tongue that, ever sweet,
7Was used in giving gentle doom
8And taught it thus anew to greet.
9"I hate," she alter'd with an end
10That follow'd it as gentle day
11Doth follow night, who like a fiend
12From heav'n to hell is flown away.
13    "I hate" from "hate" away she threw
14    And sav'd my life saying, "not you."

Notes

2] hate] aspirated, sounded without the "h." Back to Line
7] doom] judgment. Back to Line
8] greet] salute. Back to Line
12] heav'n] heauen Q. Back to Line
13] "hate" away] Andrew Gurr suggests a pun on (Anne) "Hathaway," Shakespeare's wife. Back to Line
14] And] easily slurred in sounding to be "Anne" (Booth 501). "not you."] the "end" (line 9) with which she altered "I hate." Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1609
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2008
Rhyme
ababcdcdefefgg
Form
sonnet