Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Sonnet 97


1. How like a winter hath my absence been

2. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!

3. What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!

4. What old December's bareness everywhere!

5. And yet this time removed was summer's time;

6. The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,

7. Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,

8. Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:

9. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me

10. But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit;

11. For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,

12. And, thou away, the very birds are mute:

13. Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,

14. That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.


This a Shakespeare Sonnet and it is pretty good. You can find other sonnets here.

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