Sonnet 45
The other two, slight air and purging fire,Are both with thee, wherever I abide;The first my thought, the other my desire,These present-absent with swift motion slide.For when these quicker elements are goneIn tender embassy of love to thee,My life, being made of four, with two aloneSinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;Until life's composition be recurredBy those swift messengers return'd from thee,Who even but now come back again, assuredOf thy fair health, recounting it to me: This told, I joy; but then no longer glad, I send them back again and straight grow sad.
Love, fixing this darkest divisionmeans giving the wind a new mission:to bring you the fireof burning desire,and a few hundred poems in addition.