William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet LXI
Is it thy
will, thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to
the weary night?
Dost thou desire my
slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like
to thee do mock my sight?
Is it thy spirit that
thou send'st from thee
So far from home into
my deeds to pry,
To find out shames
and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenure
of thy jealousy?
O, no! thy love, though
much, is not so great:
It is my love that
keeps mine eye awake:
Mine own true love
that doth my rest defeat,
To play the watchman
ever for thy sake:
For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.
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