StoryTitle("caps", "Sonnet CII ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I love not less, though less the show appear: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The owner's tongue doth publish everywhere. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our love was new, and then but in the spring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I was wont to greet it with my lays; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As Philomel in summer's front doth sing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And stops her pipe in growth of riper days: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not that the summer is less pleasant now ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But that wild music burthens every bough, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sweets grown common lose their dear delight. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Therefore, like her, I sometime hold my tongue, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Because I would not dull you with my song.", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>