English poem
Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found. Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure; Now counting best to be with you alone, Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure: Sometime all full with feasting on your sight, And by and by clean starved for a look; Possessing or pursuing no delight, Save what is had, or must from you be took. Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
More by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- Sonnet 72: O! lest the world should task you to recite
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
- Sonnet 74: But be contented: when that fell arrest
- Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride
- Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear
- Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse
- Sonnet 79: Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid