Sonnet 86: Was it the Proud Full Sail of His Great Verse
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirts taught to write Above a mortal pitch that struck me dead? No, neither he nor his comperes by night, Giving him aid, my verse astonished. He, nor that affable familiar ghost, Which nightly gulls him with intelligence, As victors of my silence cannot boast, I was not sick of any fear from thence. But when your countenance filled up his line, Then lacked I matter, that enfeebled mine. |
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