Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 83 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 83 |
1 I never saw that you did painting need 2 And therefore to your fair no painting set; 3 I found, or thought I found, you did exceed 4 The barren tender of a poet's debt; 5 And therefore have I slept in your report, 6 That you yourself being extant well might show 7 How far a modern quill doth come too short, 8 Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow. 9 This silence for my sin you did impute, 10 Which shall be most my glory, being dumb; 11 For I impair not beauty being mute, 12 When others would give life and bring a tomb. 13 There lives more life in one of your fair eyes 14 Than both your poets can in praise devise. |
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