If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, Injurious distance should not stop my way? I believe it is a sonnet written by Shakespeare, if so which one is it by number?
2006-10-26 08:10:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Shakespeare it is - Number XLIV (for you non-Romans, that's 44)
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend, time's leisure with my moan;
Receiving nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
2006-10-26 08:14:58 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sonnet XLIV by William Shakespeare
2006-10-26 15:19:45 · answer #2 · answered by sonorarat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
William-Shakespeare.info agrees with you; he is the author. It is Sonnet 44.
2006-10-26 15:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by Dexter Lives 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like one of his darker ones... 76 or 78 maybe?
2006-10-26 15:12:44 · answer #4 · answered by just nate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋