William Shakespeare: Sonnet 112

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

THE SONNETS

 

112

Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill,

Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow,

For what care I who calls me well or ill,

So you o’er-green my bad, my good allow?

You are my all the world, and I must strive,

To know my shames and praises from your tongue,

None else to me, nor I to none alive,

That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.

In so profound abysm I throw all care

Of others’ voices, that my adder’s sense,

To critic and to flatterer stopped are:

Mark how with my neglect I do dispense.

You are so strongly in my purpose bred,

That all the world besides methinks are dead.

 

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