English poem
Sonnet 61: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenure of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.
More by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave
- Sonnet 59: If there be nothing new, but that which is
- Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore
- Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
- Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be as I am now
- Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea