Sonnets 44 And 45
(专辑: Seven Sonnets And A Song - 2016)
If the
dull substance of my flesh were thought, Injurious distance should not stop my way; For then despite of space I
would be brought, From limits far remote where thou dost stay. No matter then although my foot did stand Upon the
farthest earth removed from thee; For nimble thought can jump both sea and land As soon as think the
place where he would be. But ah! thought kills me that I
am not thought, To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone, But that so much of earth and water wrought I
must attend time's leisure with my moan, Receiving nought by elements so slow But heavy tears, badges of either's woe. The
other two, slight air and purging fire, Are both with thee, wherever I
abide; The
first my thought, the
other my desire, These present-absent with swift motion slide. For when these quicker elements are gone In tender embassy of love to thee, My life, being made of four, with two alone Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy; Until life's composition be recured By those swift messengers return'd from thee, Who even but now come back again, assured Of thy fair health, recounting it to me: This told, I
joy; but then no longer glad, I
send them back again and straight grow sad.