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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare: Poems. 1914.
“Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me”
Sonnet CXXXII
| THINE eyes I love, and they, as pitying me |
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| Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, |
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| Have put on black and loving mourners be, |
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| Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. |
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| And truly not the morning sun of heaven |
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| Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, |
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| Nor that full star that ushers in the even, |
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| Doth half that glory to the sober west, |
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| As those two mourning eyes become thy face: |
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| O! let it then as well beseem thy heart |
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| To mourn for me, since mourning doth thee grace, |
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| And suit thy pity like in every part. |
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| Then will I swear beauty herself is black, |
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| And all they foul that thy complexion lack. |
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