Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each good turns now unto the other,
When that mine eye is famished for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself smother;
With my love’s picture then my eye feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart:
Another time mine eye is my heart’s guest,
And in his thoughts of love share a part.
So either by picture or my love,
Thyself away, art present still with me,
For not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them, and they with .
Or if they sleep, picture in my sight
Awakes my heart, to heart’s and eye’s delight.
Sonnet 47
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