Poetry: Sonnet 94 by William Shakespeare ‖ Michael Gaston #readasonnet

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Sonnet 94 by William Shakespeare

They that have power to hurt and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow:

They rightly do inherit heaven's graces
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others but stewards of their excellence.

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet
Though to itself it only live and die,
But if that flower with base infection meet,
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

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94. szonett

Ki senkinek sem árt, bár árthata,
Roszat tehetne, mégsem teszi meg,
Mig mást megindit, mint a kő maga
Mozdúlatlan s a csáb iránt hideg:

A lét kincsével jól gazdálkodik,
És méltán birja ő, mások pedig
Csak arra jók hogy parancsát tegyék.
A nyár virága: a nyár dísze, bár

Csak önmagának nyilik s hervad is;
De ha megrágja rothasztó bogár:
Különb a legsilányabb gaz s tövis.

Édesbül lesz a méreg; líliom
Rothadva rondább mint akármi gyom.

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