Soneto 40

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Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call; All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more. Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest, I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest; But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivest By wilful taste of what thyself refusest. I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief, Although thou steal thee all my poverty: And yet, love knows it is a greater grief To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury. Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows, Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.
–William Shakespeare

Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.
Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;
But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty:
And yet, love knows it is a greater grief
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites yet we must not be foes.

–William Shakespeare

O Soneto 40 foi escrito por William Shakespeare e faz parte dos seus 154 sonetos. É endereçado a um jovem do sexo masculino. Neste poema, como nos outros, nesta parte da seqüência, o eu-lírico exprime ressentimento do poder que o seu amor exerce sobre ele.

Traduções

Na tradução de Thereza Christina Rocque da Motta,

Toma todos os meus amores, meu bem, sim, toma-os todos;

O que mais tens agora que antes já não tinhas?

Nenhum amor, meu bem, que possas chamar de amor;

A mim tinhas por inteiro, antes de me teres mais ainda.

Então, se pelo meu amor tu o recebeste,

Não posso culpar-te pelo meu amor que usaste;

Mas, mesmo culpada, se porventura te enganaste,

Por orgulho do que tu mesma recusaste.

Perdoo-te por teres me roubado, gentil ladina,

Embora roubes de mim toda a minha riqueza;

Ainda assim, o amor sabe, é uma tristeza inda maior

Suportar do amor o erro do que a injúria do desamor.

Lasciva graça, em quem todo o mal se mostra,

Mata-me com teu desprezo, mas não nos tornemos inimigos.^[1]

Referências

↑ Thereza Christina Rocque da Motta (tradutora), SHAKESPEARE, William. 154 Sonetos. Em Comemoração Aos 400 Anos Da 1ª Edição 1609-2009. Editora Ibis Libris, 1ª edição, 2009. ISBN 8578230264

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