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