Shakespeare's Sonnets (1923) Yale/Text/Sonnet 47
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47
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother, 4
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part: 8
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thyself away art present still with me;
For thou not further than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them and they with thee; 12
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight.
4 himself: itself