English poem
Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, That they behold, and see not what they see? They know what beauty is, see where it lies, Yet what the best is take the worst to be. If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks, Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride, Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks, Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied? Why should my heart think that a several plot, Which my heart knows the wide world's common place? Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not, To put fair truth upon so foul a face? In things right true my heart and eyes have err'd, And to this false plague are they now transferr'd.
More by William Shakespeare
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- Sonnet 134: So, now I have confess'd that he is thine
- Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'
- Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near
- Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth
- Sonnet 139: O! call not me to justify the wrong
- Sonnet 13: O! that you were your self; but, love you are
- Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press