Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 36, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE


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First Line: Let me confess that we two must be twain
Last Line: As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain
Without thy help by me be borne alone.
In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
But do not so; I love thee in such sort
As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.





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