Platonick Love

INDEED I must confess,

When souls mix ‘t is an happiness;

But not complete till bodies too do combine,

And closely as our minds together join:

But half of heaven the souls in glory taste,

Till by love in heaven, at last,

Their bodies too are plac’d.

In thy immortal part

Man, as well as I, thou art;

But something’t is that differs thee and me;

And we must one even in that difference be.

I thee, both as a man and woman, prize;

For a perfect love implies

Love in all capacities.

Can that for true love pass,

When a fair woman courts her glass?

Something unlike must in love’s likeness be;

His wonder is, one, and variety:

For he, whose soul nought but a soul can move,

Does a new Narcissus prove,

And his own image love.

That souls do beauty know,

‘T is to the bodies’ help they owe;

If, when they know ‘t, they straight abuse that trust,

And shut the body from’t, ‘t is as unjust

As if I brought my dearest friend to see

My mistress, and at th’ instant he

Should steal her quite from me.

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• Шекспир – Уж если ты разлюбишь – Сонет 90 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – У сердца с глазом тайный договор – Сонет 47 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – У бедной музы красок больше нет – Сонет 103 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Ты положи с моей любовью рядом – Сонет 117 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Считать часы и спрашивать – Сонет 58 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – С любовью связан жизненный мой путь – Сонет 92 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Проснись, любовь – Сонет 56 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Про черный день – Сонет 63 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Пример тебе подобной красоты – Сонет 84 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Прекрасный облик в зеркале ты видишь – Сонет 3 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – По совести скажи – Сонет 10 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Но не боюсь и смерть – Сонет 80 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Неужто я, приняв любви венец – Сонет 114 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Не позволяю помыслам ревнивым – Сонет 57 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Мой глаз гравером стал – Сонет 24 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Мои глаза в тебя не влюблены – Сонет 141 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Мне показалось, что была зима – Сонет 97 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Меня не радует твоя печаль – Сонет 34 by William Shakespeare
• Шекспир – Любовь – не кукла жалкая в руках – Сонет 116 by William Shakespeare

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