We expected the violin’s finger on the upturned nerve;
Its importunate cry, too laxly curved:
And you drew us an oboe-outline, clean and acute;
Unadorned statement, accurately carved.

We expected the screen, the background for reverie
Which cloudforms usefully weave:
And you built the immaculate, adamant, blue-green steel
Arch of a balanced wave.

We expected a pool with flowers to diffuse and break
The child-round face of the mirrored moon:
And you blazed a rock-path, begun near the sun, to be finished
By the trained and intrepid feet of men.

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Poems in English 

• Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXVIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXVII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXVI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXIX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXIV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXXI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXVIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXVII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXLVIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXLVII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXLVI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXLV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet CXLIX by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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