Sonnet 39

SWEET smile, the daughter of the Queene of Love1,

Expressing all thy mothers powrefull art:

With which she wonts to temper2 angry Joue,

When all the gods he threats with thundring dart3.

Sweet is thy vertue4, as thy selfe sweet art5,

For when on me thou shinedst late in sadnesse:

A melting pleasance ran through every part

And me revived with hart robbing gladnesse6.

Whylest rapt with ioy resembling heavenly madnes,

My soule was ravisht quite, as in a traunce:

And feeling thence no more her sorowes sadnesse,

Fed on the fulnesse of that chearefull glaunce,

More sweet than Nectar, or ambrosiall meat7,

Seemd every bit which thenceforth I did eat.

注释：1.love：爱神维纳斯。

2.temper：有节制的，温和的，稳健的；中庸的；中等的；

3.dart：雷电，霹雳。

4.virtue：力量。

5.art：因为你自己很可爱。

6.gladnesse：在威廉·哈维〔1578-1657，医生，英国解剖学家、血液循环的发现者〕发现血液循环现象以前，人们认为是热情将血液抽出心脏，同时又把血液泵入心脏，而恐惧则送出血液，援助受到妨碍的身体器官。但在这儿，将血液送出心房的是快乐。

7.meat：食物。