Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 44 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 44 |
1 If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, 2 Injurious distance should not stop my way; 3 For then despite of space I would be brought, 4 From limits far remote, where thou dost stay. 5 No matter then although my foot did stand 6 Upon the farthest earth removed from thee; 7 For nimble thought can jump both sea and land 8 As soon as think the place where he would be. 9 But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought, 10 To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone, 11 But that so much of earth and water wrought 12 I must attend time's leisure with my moan, 13 Receiving nought by elements so slow 14 But heavy tears, badges of either's woe. |
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