William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare

Book Excerpt: ...ets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly, Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confoundsIn singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering; Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing: Whose speechless song being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'IXIs it for fear to wet a widow's eye, That thou consum'st thy self in single life?Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die, The world will wail thee like a makeless wife; The world will be thy widow and still weepThat thou no form of thee hast left behind, When every private widow well may keepBy children's eyes, her husband'