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Sonnet 75 in the 1609 Quarto  | 
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So are you to my thoughts as food to life, 
Or as sweet-season’d showers are to the ground; 
And for the peace of you I hold such strife 
As ’twixt a miser and his wealth is found; 
Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon 
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure; 
Now counting best to be with you alone, 
Then better’d that the world may see my pleasure: 
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight, 
And by and by clean starved for a look; 
Possessing or pursuing no delight, 
Save what is had or must from you be took. 
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, 
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.  | 
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—William Shakespeare | 
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Sonnet 75 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.