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The Sonnets XXX - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

By William Shakespeare

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought     I summon up remembrance of things past,     I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,     And with old woes new wail my dear times waste:     Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,     For precious friends hid in deaths dateless night,     And weep afresh loves long since cancelld woe,     And moan the expense of many a vanishd sight:     Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,     And heavily from woe to woe tell oer     The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,     Which I new pay as if not paid before.     But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,     All losses are restord and sorrows end.

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William Shakespeare

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 154 sonnets and narrative poems including "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," alongside 37 plays that remain central to world literature.

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