William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet XXXI
Thy bosom
is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking
have supposed dead;
And there reigns Love,
and all Love's loving parts,
And all those friends
which I thought buried.
How many a holy and
obsequious tear
Hath dear religious
love stol'n from mine eye,
As interest of the
dead, which now appear
But things remov'd
that hidden in thee lie!
Thou art the grave
where buried love doth live,
Hung with the trophies
of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts
of me to thee did give,
That due of many now
is thine alone:
Their images I lov'd, I view in thee,
And thou--all they--hast all the all of me.
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