StoryTitle("caps", "Sonnet CXXIX") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Th' expense of Spirit in a waste of shame ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is lust in action; and till action, lust ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enjoy'd no sooner but despiséd straight; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Past reason hunted; and, no sooner had, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On purpose laid to make the taker mad: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All this the world well knows; yet none knows well ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>