| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet XLVII |
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| 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 bids my heart; |
| Another time mine eye is my heart's guest |
| And in his thoughts of love doth share a part: |
| So, either by thy picture or my love, |
| Thyself away art resent still with me; |
| For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move, |
| And I am still with them and they with thee; |
| Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight |
| Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight. |
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