Friday, May 18, 2001

Sonnet Cii Comments

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear:
That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
The owner's tongue doth publish every where.
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William Shakespeare
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Fabrizio Frosini 07 November 2015

The poet excuses his previous silence. Love has increased in strength, even though declarations and utterances of love have become fewer. Affection becomes vulgarised by too frequent protestations. Sonnets following each other in rapid succession were suitable at the commencement of the friendship, just as the nightingale fills the groves with her music on the approach of summer. And the poet had paused in his song, as she does when summer advances, not wishing to weary his friend.

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Brian Jani 26 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out

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* Sunprincess * 26 December 2013

....beautifully written with a touch of nostalgia...

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Michael Romero 11 October 2006

This...is a lovely poem.

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