Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
William Shakespeare. 15641616157. Sonnets xiii
FROM you have I been absent in the spring, | |
When proud-pied April, dress’d in all his trim, | |
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, | |
That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him. | |
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell | 5 |
Of different flowers in odour and in hue, | |
Could make me any summer’s story tell, | |
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; | |
Nor did I wonder at the Lily’s white, | |
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the Rose; | 10 |
They were but sweet, but figures of delight, | |
Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. | |
Yet seem’d it Winter still, and, you away, | |
As with your shadow I with these did play. |