Sonnet 39
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O! how thy worth with manners may I sing, Even for this, let us divided live, O absence! what a torment wouldst thou prove, And that thou teachest how to make one twain, |
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Sonnet 39 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
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How can I celebrate your worth in my poems without appearing conceited, given that you're my better half? What good does it do me to praise myself--and am I doing anything besides praising myself when I praise you? For this reason, let's live apart. And though we love each other dearly, let's lose our common identity; by this separation, I can give you the praise that you deserve by yourself. Oh, absence, you would be such a torment if it weren't for the fact that you give me the chance to fill up the lonely hours with thoughts of love, which make the time pass so sweetly, and that you teach me how to divide my love and me in two, as I, here, praise my friend while he remains elsewhere.
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