Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly? Poem by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?

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Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tunèd sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing;
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: "Thou single wilt prove none."

COMMENTS OF THE POEM

....the sound of two strings vibrating together in harmony..... so Beautiful

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Molly Piper 05 November 2015

This Is beautiful! ! !

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Brian Jani 26 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out

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