English Poetry. William Shakespeare. Silvia. Уильям Шекспир.

William Shakespeare (Уильям Шекспир)

Silvia

WHO is Silvia? What is she?
   That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
   The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admired be.

Is she kind as she is fair?
   For beauty lives with kindness:
Love doth to her eyes repair,
   To help him of his blindness;
And, being help'd, inhabits there.

Then to Silvia let us sing,
   That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
   Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring. 

William Shakespeare’s other poems:

1. From Venus And Adonis
2. Hark! Hark! The Lark
3. How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
4. A Lover’s Complaint
5. Bridal Song

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