Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 69 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 69 |
1 Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view 2 Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend; 3 All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due, 4 Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend. 5 Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd; 6 But those same tongues that give thee so thine own 7 In other accents do this praise confound 8 By seeing farther than the eye hath shown. 9 They look into the beauty of thy mind, 10 And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds; 11 Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind, 12 To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds: 13 But why thy odour matcheth not thy show, 14 The soil is this, that thou dost common grow. |
<<< Previous | Next >>> |