Shakespeare's Sonnets: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took

Sonnet 47

Original Text
SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (London: G. Eld for T. T. and sold by William Aspley, 1609): d2v.
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. Back to Line
6] bids] invites. Back to Line
10] are] Given the subject "either" (9), "is" might be expected. self] seife Q. Back to Line
11] nor] no. Back to Line
12] still] always. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1609
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2008
Rhyme
ababcdcdefefgg
Form
sonnet