Sonnets From The Portuguese - Numbers 33 and 43

Numbers 33 and 43

By far the most famous poems from this collection, with one of the most famous opening lines in the English language, are numbers 33 and 43:

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    I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)