| Translation and Analysis of Sonnet LVI |
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| SONNET 56 |
| Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said |
| Thy edge should blunter be than appetite, |
| Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd, |
| To-morrow sharpen'd in his former might: |
| So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill |
| Thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness, |
| To-morrow see again, and do not kill |
| The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness. |
| Let this sad interim like the ocean be* |
| Which parts the shore, where two contracted new |
| Come daily to the banks, that, when they see |
| Return of love, more blest may be the view; |
| Else call it winter, which being full of care |
| Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare. |
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