English poem
Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any
For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any, Who for thy self art so unprovident. Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov'd of many, But that thou none lov'st is most evident: For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate, That 'gainst thy self thou stick'st not to conspire, Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate Which to repair should be thy chief desire. O! change thy thought, that I may change my mind: Shall hate be fairer lodg'd than gentle love? Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind, Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove: Make thee another self for love of me, That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
More by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 105: Let not my love be call'd idolatry
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
- Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
- Sonnet 108: What's in the brain, that ink may character
- Sonnet 110: Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there
- Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide
- Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth the impression fill
- Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind