Sonnets from the Portuguese i-v
I t once us had sung
Of t years, the dear and wishd-for years,
ho each one in a gracious hand appears
to bear a gift for mortals old or young:
And, as I mused it in ique tongue,
I saears
t, sad years, the melancholy years--
turns had flung
A sraightway I was ware,
So weeping, ic Shape did move
Behe hair;
And a voice said in mastery, wrove,
Guess nohere
t Deat Love.
UNLIKE are we, unlike, O princely !
Unlike our uses and our destinies.
Our ministering two angels look surprise
On one anotrike at
t
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
iter eyes
tears even can make mine, to play t
Of c to do
ittice-lig me--
A poor, tired, hrough
tree?
the dew--
And Deat dig these agree.
GO from me. Yet I feel t I sand
hy shadow. Nevermore
Alone upon threshold of my door
Of individual life I shall command
t my hand
Serenely in the sunshine as before,
it t which I forbore--
touc land
Doom takes to part us, leaves t in mine
it beat double. I do
And he wine
Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue
God for myself, name of thine,
And sees ears of two.
IF t love me, let it be for naught
Except for loves sake only. Do not say,
I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaki