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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Sonnet 37Sonnet 37
37
Synopsis:
The poet feels crippled by misfortune but takes delight in the blessings heaped by nature and fortune on the beloved.
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by fortune’s dearest spite,
4Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in ⌜thy⌝ parts do crownèd sit,
8I make my love engrafted to this store.
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance am sufficed
12And by a part of all thy glory live.
Look what is best, that best I wish in thee.
This wish I have, then ten times happy me.