SONNET 30 | PARAPHRASE | |
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought | When in these sessions of gratifying silent thought | |
I summon up remembrance of things past, | I think of the past, | |
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, | I lament my failure to achieve all that I wanted, | |
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: | And I sorrowfully remember that I wasted the best years of my life: | |
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, | Then I can cry, although I am not used to crying, | |
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, | For dear friends now hid in death's unending night, | |
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, | And cry again over woes that were long since healed, | |
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: | And lament the loss of many things that I have seen and loved: | |
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, | Then can I grieve over past griefs again, | |
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er | And sadly repeat (to myself) my woes | |
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, | The sorrowful account of griefs already grieved for, | |
Which I new pay as if not paid before. | Which (the account) I repay as if I had not paid before. | |
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, | But if I think of you while I am in this state of sadness, dear friend, | |
All losses are restored and sorrows end. | All my losses are compensated for and my sorrow ends. |
Wednesday, 5 October 2011
SONNET 30 paraphrase
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