Shakespeare’s Sonnet CII: Imagery & Analysis
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming;I love not less, though less the show appear;That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming,The owner’s tongue doth publish every where.Our love was new, and then but in the spring,When I was wont to greet it with my lays;As Philomel in summer’s front doth sing,And stops his…