StoryTitle("caps", "Sonnet LXXXVII ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And like enough thou know'st thy estimate: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My bonds in thee are all determinate. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For how do I hold thee but by thy granting? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And for that riches where is my deserving? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so my patent back again is swerving. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thyself thou gav'st, thy own worth then not knowing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or me, to whom thou gav'st it, else mistaking;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So thy great gift, upon misprision growing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Comes home again, on better judgment making. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In sleep a King; but waking, no such matter.", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>