English poem
Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true
So shall I live, supposing thou art true, Like a deceived husband; so love's face May still seem love to me, though alter'd new; Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place: For there can live no hatred in thine eye, Therefore in that I cannot know thy change. In many's looks, the false heart's history Is writ in moods, and frowns, and wrinkles strange. But heaven in thy creation did decree That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell; Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be, Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell. How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow, If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show!
More by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
- Sonnet 90: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now
- Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill
- Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thyself away
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt, and will do none
- Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
- Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness
- Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been