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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Sonnet 137
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Sonnet 137Sonnet 137
137
Synopsis:
The poet asks why both his eyes and his heart have fastened on a woman neither beautiful nor chaste.
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
That they behold and see not what they see?
They know what beauty is, see where it lies,
4Yet what the best is take the worst to be.
If eyes, corrupt by overpartial looks,
Be anchored in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes’ falsehood hast thou forgèd hooks,
8Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
Why should my heart think that a several plot
Which my heart knows the wide world’s common place?
Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not,
12To put fair truth upon so foul a face?
In things right true my heart and eyes have erred,
And to this false plague are they now transferred.