English poem
Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; And that which governs me to go about Doth part his function and is partly blind, Seems seeing, but effectually is out; For it no form delivers to the heart Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch: Of his quick objects hath the mind no part, Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch; For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight, The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature, The mountain or the sea, the day or night: The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature. Incapable of more, replete with you, My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue.
More by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any
- 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 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
- Sonnet 117: Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all
- Sonnet 118: Like as, to make our appetite more keen