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Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts

by William Shakespeare

Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,

Which I by lacking have supposed dead;

And there reigns Love, and all Love's loving parts,

And all those friends which I thought buried.

How many a holy and obsequious tear

Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,

As interest of the dead, which now appear

But things remov'd that hidden in thee lie!

Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,

Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,

Who all their parts of me to thee did give,

That due of many now is thine alone:

Their images I lov'd, I view in thee,

And thou — all they — hast all the all of me.

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Poem
Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts
Poet
William Shakespeare
Length
14 lines
Form
Sonnet
Themes
Love, Death & Loss, Sad

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Shape
14 lines · one 14-line stanza
Line length
Mostly 10-syllable lines (pentameter length).

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Author record
William Shakespeare1564–1616
Source record
PoetryDBSonnet 31: Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts by william-shakespeare, PoetryDB transcription
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