Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 80 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 80 |
1 O, how I faint when I of you do write , 2 Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, 3 And in the praise thereof spends all his might, 4 To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame! 5 But since your worth, wide as the ocean is, 6 The humble as the proudest sail doth bear, 7 My saucy bark inferior far to his 8 On your broad main doth wilfully appear. 9 Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat, 10 Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride; 11 Or being wrack'd, I am a worthless boat, 12 He of tall building and of goodly pride: 13 Then if he thrive and I be cast away, 14 The worst was this; my love was my decay. |
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