sonnets.doc>
Two Shakespearean Sonnets>
author>William Shakespeare>
encoders>Terence Langendoen>Eanass Fahmy>
Preliminary version.
The following sonnets are taken from the collection
edited by Martin Seymour-Smith> entitled
Shakespeare's Sonnets> published by
Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.> in 1963>.
This is, in our view, the more preferable encoding for
the Shakespearean sonnets that follow. Minimal metrical information
is repeated at each of the poetic divisions since this information
(name, type, metrical-unit, metrical-domain and rhyme-information) is
inherited from the higher level division element.
Eanass Fahmy
May 1991
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Sonnet 30
When to the Sessions of sweet silent thought,
I sommon up remembrance of things past,
I sight the lacke of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new waile my deare times waste:
Then can I drowne an eye (un-us'd to flow)
For precious friends hid in deaths dateles night,
And I weepe a fresh loves long since canceld woe,
And mone th'expence of many a vannisht sight.
Then can I greeve at greevances fore-gon,
And heavily from woe to woe tell ore
The sad account of fore-bemoned mone,
Which I new pay as if not payd before.
But if the while I thinke on thee (deare friend)
All losses are restored, and sorrowes end.
Sonnet 76
Why is my verse so barren of new pride?
So far from variation or quicke change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keepe invention in in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Shewing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O know sweet love I alwaies write of you,
And you and love are still my argument:
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending againe what is already spent:
For as the Sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.