Sonnet 30

Praise and Beauty

  1. 1 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
  2. 2 I summon up remembrance of things past,
  3. 3 I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
  4. 4 And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
  5. 5 Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
  6. 6 For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
  7. 7 And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
  8. 8 And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
  9. 9 Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
  10. 10 And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
  11. 11 The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
  12. 12 Which I new pay as if not paid before.
  13. 13 But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
  14. 14 All losses are restor'd and sorrows end.