William Shakespeare
1564-1616
Sonnet LXXV
So are you
to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd
showers are to the ground;
And for the peace
of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser
and his wealth is found.
Now proud as an enjoyer,
and anon
Doubting the filching
age will steal his treasure;
Now counting best
to be with you alone,
Then better'd that
the world may see my pleasure:
Sometime all full
with feasting on your sight,
And by and by clean
starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing
no delight,
Save what is had,
or must from you be took.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
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