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-Shakespeare Sonnets

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 99

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

99

The forward violet thus did I chide,

Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,

If not from my love’s breath? The purple pride

Which on thy soft check for complexion dwells,

In my love’s veins thou hast too grossly dyed.

The lily I condemned for thy hand,

And buds of marjoram had stol’n thy hair,

The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,

One blushing shame, another white despair:

A third nor red, nor white, had stol’n of both,

And to his robbery had annexed thy breath,

But for his theft in pride of all his growth

A vengeful canker eat him up to death.

More flowers I noted, yet I none could see,

But sweet, or colour it had stol’n from thee.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 98

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

98

From you have I been absent in the spring,

When proud-pied April (dressed in all his trim)

Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing:

That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.

Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell

Of different flowers in odour and in hue,

Could make me any summer’s story tell:

Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:

Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,

Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose,

They were but sweet, but figures of delight:

Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,

As with your shadow I with these did play.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 97

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

97

How like a winter hath my absence been

From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!

What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!

What old December’s bareness everywhere!

And yet this time removed was summer’s time,

The teeming autumn big with rich increase,

Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,

Like widowed wombs after their lords’ decease:

Yet this abundant issue seemed to me

But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit,

For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,

And thou away, the very birds are mute.

Or if they sing, ’tis with so dull a cheer,

That leaves look pale, dreading the winter’s near.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 96

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

96

Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness,

Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport,

Both grace and faults are loved of more and less:

Thou mak’st faults graces, that to thee resort:

As on the finger of a throned queen,

The basest jewel will be well esteemed:

So are those errors that in thee are seen,

To truths translated, and for true things deemed.

How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,

If like a lamb he could his looks translate!

How many gazers mightst thou lead away,

if thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state!

But do not so, I love thee in such sort,

As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 95

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

95

How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame,

Which like a canker in the fragrant rose,

Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!

O in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!

That tongue that tells the story of thy days,

(Making lascivious comments on thy sport)

Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise,

Naming thy name, blesses an ill report.

O what a mansion have those vices got,

Which for their habitation chose out thee,

Where beauty’s veil doth cover every blot,

And all things turns to fair, that eyes can see!

Take heed (dear heart) of this large privilege,

The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 94

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

94

They that have power to hurt, and will do none,

That do not do the thing, they most do show,

Who moving others, are themselves as stone,

Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow:

They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces,

And husband nature’s riches from expense,

Tibey are the lords and owners of their faces,

Others, but stewards of their excellence:

The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet,

Though to it self, it only live and die,

But if that flower with base infection meet,

The basest weed outbraves his dignity:

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds,

Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 93

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

93

So shall I live, supposing thou art true,

Like a deceived husband, so love’s face,

May still seem love to me, though altered new:

Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place.

For there can live no hatred in thine eye,

Therefore in that I cannot know thy change,

In many’s looks, the false heart’s history

Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange.

But heaven in thy creation did decree,

That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell,

Whate’er thy thoughts, or thy heart’s workings be,

Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell.

How like Eve’s apple doth thy beauty grow,

If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 92

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

92

But do thy worst to steal thy self away,

For term of life thou art assured mine,

And life no longer than thy love will stay,

For it depends upon that love of thine.

Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,

When in the least of them my life hath end,

I see, a better state to me belongs

Than that, which on thy humour doth depend.

Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,

Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie,

O what a happy title do I find,

Happy to have thy love, happy to die!

But what’s so blessed-fair that fears no blot?

Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 91

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

91

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,

Some in their wealth, some in their body’s force,

Some in their garments though new-fangled ill:

Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse.

And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,

Wherein it finds a joy above the rest,

But these particulars are not my measure,

All these I better in one general best.

Thy love is better than high birth to me,

Richer than wealth, prouder than garments’ costs,

Of more delight than hawks and horses be:

And having thee, of all men’s pride I boast.

Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take,

All this away, and me most wretchcd make.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 89, vertaling C.W. Schoneveld

William Shakespeare: Sonnet 89

nieuwe vertaling Cornelis W. Schoneveld

 

Sonnet 89

Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will comment upon that offence;
Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,
Against thy reasons making no defence.

Thou canst not (love) disgrace me half so ill,
To set a form upon desired change,
As I’ll my self disgrace; knowing thy will
I will acquaintance strangle and look strange,

Be absent from thy walks, and in my tongue
Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,
Lest I (too much profane) should do it wrong
And haply of our old acquaintance tell.

For thee, against my self I’ll vow debate,
For I must ne’er love him whom thou dost hate.

 

Sonnet 89

Stel dat vanwege een fout jij mij ontkomt,
Dan meet ik mijn tekortkoming breed uit;
Noem je mijn kreupel, wel dan hink ik prompt
Bij jouw kritiek, die op geen weerstand stuit.

Mijn lief, jij kwetst mij nog niet half zo wreed
Met formuleren wat je anders wil,
Als waarmee ìk mij kwets; als ik het weet,
Dan smoor ik onze vriendschap en kijk kil,

Ontwijk je wandelpad, en op mijn tong
Ligt dan niet meer bemind je zoete naam,
Dat ik die niet onteerde en vals bezong,
En mogelijk onze vriendschap oud beaam.

Debat beloof ik dan met mij, voor jou,
Want ‘k mag nooit minnen wie jij haten zou.


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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 90

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

90

Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now,

Now while the world is bent my deeds to cross,

join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,

And do not drop in for an after-loss:

Ah do not, when my heart hath ‘scaped this sorrow,

Come in the rearward of a conquered woe,

Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,

To linger out a purposed overthrow.

If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,

When other petty griefs have done their spite,

But in the onset come, so shall I taste

At first the very worst of fortune’s might.

And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,

Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.

 

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William Shakespeare: Sonnet 89

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

89

Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,

And I will comment upon that offence,

Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt:

Against thy reasons making no defence.

Thou canst not (love) disgrace me half so ill,

To set a form upon desired change,

As I’ll my self disgrace, knowing thy will,

I will acquaintance strangle and look strange:

Be absent from thy walks and in my tongue,

Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,

Lest I (too much profane) should do it wrong:

And haply of our old acquaintance tell.

For thee, against my self I’ll vow debate,

For I must ne’er love him whom thou dost hate.

 

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