Stanisław Sojka - Sonet CII

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear;
That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming
The owner's tongue doth publish everywhere.

Therefore like her, I sometime hold my tongue,
Because I would not, Because I would not
dull you with my song.

Our love was new, and then but in the spring
When I was wont to greet it with my lays;
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

Therefore like her, I sometime hold my tongue,
Because I would not, Because I would not
dull you with my song.


//notatka od tlumacza

Czułbym że popełniam niewybaczalny grzech próbując przekładać ten utwór na język angielski. Grzech ten powodowany byłby faktem iż utwór Pana Staszka Soyki jest przekładem z angielskiegoe Sonnet 102 Williama Shakespeare'a. W związku z tym przytoczyłem tu oryginalny tekst sonetu