280. Sonnet 57 Being your Slave by William Shakespeare
b'W Shakespeare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n \\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n \\n---------------------------------------------\\n \\n Sonnet 57 Being your Slave\\n by William Shakespeare (1564 \\u2013 1616)\\n\\nBeing your slave, what should I do but tend\\nUpon the hours and times of your desire?\\nI have no precious time at all to spend,\\nNor services to do, till you require.\\n\\nNor dare I chide the world-without-end hour\\nWhilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,\\nNor think the bitterness of absence sour\\nWhen you have bid your servant once adieu;\\n\\nNor dare I question with my jealous thought\\nWhere you may be, or your affairs suppose,\\nBut, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought\\nSave, where you are how happy you make those!\\n\\nSo true a fool is love, that in your Will,\\nThough you do any thing, he thinks no ill.\\n\\n For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n \\n Reading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'