«Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch One of her feather’d creatures broke away». The image of an errant mistress chasing chickens while neglecting her infant suggests a love triangle between the woman, the young man, and the poet. Sonnet 143 Read and listen […]
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«Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful lovinge». Delving into the awareness of sin, Sonnet 142 sums up the poet’s whole fatuous and insatiable passion. He supports the woman’s rejection of his love because he deems […]
«In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note». In Sonnet 141, the poet discusses how his senses warn him of the woman’s disreputable character, yet his heart, a symbol of his emotions, remains affectionately attached […]
«Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain». Sinking quickly into despair over the sad state of his relationship with the woman, the poet threatens the woman with public humiliation should she not at least feign love […]
«O, call not me to justify the wrong That thy unkindness lays upon my heart». Regressing to his former melodramatic verse, the poet begs the woman to be honest with him and confess her infidelity. Sonnet 139 Read and listen O, call not me to […]
«When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies». Sonnet 138 presents a candid psychological study of the mistress that reveals many of her hypocrisies. Certainly she is still very much the poet’s mistress, but […]
«Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, That they behold, and see not what they see?». The dichotomy between the impulses of the eye and the heart is developed further in this sonnet. After the preceding two sexually comic sonnets, Sonnet 137 […]