Friday, May 18, 2001

Sonnet Cli Comments

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Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:
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William Shakespeare
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Fabrizio Frosini 07 November 2015

A consciousness of where fault lies is apt to follow after love. There was danger, therefore, lest the poet's mistress should be incriminated as the cause of his bringing the nobler part of his nature under the dominion of his fleshly lusts. He asks, therefore, that the question as to the morality of his conduct shall not be raised.

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Brian Jani 26 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out

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* Sunprincess * 04 January 2014

............a very intimate write...one of the poet's very best..

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