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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 147, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My love is as a fever, longing still
Last Line: Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Variant Title(s): "my Love Is A Fever, Longing Still"";
First Line: My love is as a fever, longing still
Last Line: Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Variant Title(s): "my Love Is A Fever, Longing Still"";
My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,
At random from the truth vainly express'd;
For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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