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Sonnet 48
How careful was I when I took my way,Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,That to my use it might unused stayFrom hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust! But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,Thou best...
Sonnet 47
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,And each doth good turns now unto the other:When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother, With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,And to the painted banquet...
Sonnet 46
Dans La King James Bible, le 46° mot du 46° Psaume (on oublie l'indication musicale, selah) en partant du début du psaume est shake; le 46° mot en partant de la fin du psaume (en omettant encore selah) est spear – et malgré cette absence du 'e', certains...
Sonnet 45
The other two, slight air and purging fire,Are both with thee, wherever I abide;The first my thought, the other my desire,These present-absent with swift motion slide. For when these quicker elements are goneIn tender embassy of love to thee,My life,...
Sonnet 44
Loin, peut-être... If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,Injurious distance should not stop my way;For then despite of space I would be brought,From limits far remote, where thou dost stay. No matter then although my foot did standUpon the farthest...
I feel lost in translations
Caspar David Friedrich, Le voyageur contemplant une mer de nuages (1818). Un personnage aussi perdu que le traducteur devant le flot des mots. Frôlements, attouchements*, petites morts et fiascos… Quant à l’horloge je fais le compte des heures du...
Sonnet 42
That thou hast her it is not all my grief,And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;That she hath thee is of my wailing chief,A loss in love that touches me more nearly. Loving offenders thus I will excuse ye:Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I...
Sonnet 41
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits,When I am sometime absent from thy heart,Thy beauty, and thy years full well befits,For still temptation follows where thou art. Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won,Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;And...
Sonnet 40
Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more. Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,I cannot blame...
Sonnet 39
Pourquoi pas une cascade d'Islande (une de celles de la Skaga) O! how thy worth with manners may I sing,When thou art all the better part of me?What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?And what is't but mine own when I praise thee?Even for this,...