StoryTitle("caps", "Sonnet XCVII ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How like a Winter hath my absence been ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What old December's bareness everywhere! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet this time removed was summer's time; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The teeming Autumn, big with rich increase, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bearing the wanton burden of the prime ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like widow'd wombs after their Lord's decease: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Summer and his pleasures wait on thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, thou away, the very birds are mute: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That leaves look pale, dreading the Winter's near. ", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>