![]() ![]() The peace of you (3): Some critics believe that "peace" here could be a misprint. ![]() The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote ("sweet showers") Shakespeare could have been thinking of the opening to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Sweet-season'd (2): The sweet season, i.e. Notes So.life (1): As food is necessary to sustain the body so is the young friend necessary to sustain the poet's soul and mind. Save what is had or must from you be took.Įxcept what you have given me or what I will demand.Īnd so I starve or feed to excess depending on the day,Įither gorging on you, or not having you at all. #Shakespeer sonnet 75 fullSometime all full with feasting on your sightĪt one moment wholly satisfied by feasting on your sightĪnd the next moment utterly starved for a look at you: Then thinking that the world should see how happy I am Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground Īnd for the peace of you I hold such strifeĪnd for the contentment you bring me I allow such inner strifeĪs 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found Īs the conflict between a miser and his money ĭoubting the filching age will steal his treasure,įears that ruthless competitors will steal his treasure, That’s why I either waste away with hunger day after day, or either stuff myself with you or go without.So are you to my thoughts as food to life,Īs food is to the body so are you to my soul and mind, At times I feel full from feasting on your looks but eventually absolutely starving for a glimpse of you, having or looking for no pleasure except what you give me and what I can take from you. One moment he proudly enjoys it and the next he’s worried that the thieving age we live in will steal his treasure – now counting it best to keep you to myself, then reckoning it better if the world could see my pleasure. You are to me what food is to life, or what spring showers are to the earth, and to achieve peace of mind about you I struggle with myself as a miser struggles with his wealth. Save what is had, or must from you be took. Sometime all full with feasting on your sight, Then better’d that the world may see my pleasure: Or as sweet-season’d showers are to the ground Īnd for the peace of you I hold such strifeĪs ‘twixt a miser and his wealth is found.ĭoubting the filching age will steal his treasure So are you to my thoughts as food to life, ![]() ![]() Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order.
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