...sonnet 147 can only describe the maddeningly divided sensibility that his unregulated desire produces: "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, / Who art as black as hell, as dark as night" (13-14).9 He is like the speaker of the final two sonnets (153 and 154), who is "sick" (153.11), "a...

...Reason is past care, And frantic-mad with evermore unrest; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, At random from the truth vainly express'd; For...bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. — William Shakespeare Depart from the oblivion which fills you with darkness.... Wisdom calls you,...

...evermore unrest; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, At random from the truth vainly expressed : For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. With this transition the charge established by 144 and 146 is reversed and the 'solutions' of 146 made...

...evermore unrest; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, At random from the truth vainly express'dj For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. (147) There is nothing like this said with reference to the Fair Youth. Where such torment is there...

...cream-faced loon!" (Macbeth, 5.3.n). And in sonnet 147 the speaker compares the dark lady to Lucifer: "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, / Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." Moral corruption, murder, rebellion and treason, sexual perversion — all manner of human vices were...

...Why are light and white always associated with God and good, black and dark with evil and the devil? "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, / Who art as black as hell, as dark as night" (Sonnet 147). Black magic, black devil, black dog, black thoughts — what racial overtones exist in...

...evermore unrest; My thoughts and discourse as mad men's are. At random from the truth vainly express 'd; For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright. Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.50 In the light of discussions about Plato and the role of reason in relation to desire, I am...

...evermore unrest; my thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are. at random from the truth vainly expressed; for I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow2 Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace...

...her with what are nevertheless said to be inflated or exaggerated compliments. Sonnet 147 ends with "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, / Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." Sonnet 152 rewrites the concluding couplet of sonnet 147 to emphasize that he swears she is fair even...

...unrest, My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, At random from the truth vainly expressed. 12 For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. The poet once again (as in ss. 113, 114, 137, and 141) questions his own eyesight. Here, he describes...