This is Sonnet 29's second line. The speaker, a destitute person, is overcome with grief about his current state. In the following lines he goes on to describe a wealthy man surrounded all by friends: aspects which the speaker himself lacks.
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope...
Continually building upon the sonnet's theme of material desire, line 7 establishes itself as the pinnacle of the first half. The climax, so to speak. Not only does the speaker maintain his dream (after describing his ideal man), he moves beyond him, gazing all around. He sees happiness everywhere.
PERSONIFICATION is almost immediately used in this sonnet. The speaker laments the presence of a "deaf Heaven" (3) which cannot--or refuses--to hear his suffering. The silence of God Himself increases both the scale of the poem and the sense of anguish felt by the reader. Shakespeare was a master of this device and used it many times in other sonnets, such as the line "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade" (11) in Sonnet 18.
The Turn beginning on Line 9 reverses the tone's poem. When the speaker thinks on his beloved, it is as though all his worries melt away; he realizes that all he wants and needs rests with her. He needs neither riches nor friends--only her. The love boiling within him makes him realize that he is indeed a man full of riches--riches of the heart, not the bank account. The Turn launches the sonnet in a completely new direction.
At his lowest point, the speaker recalls his loved one, and his worries are reduced to nothing. The very idea of her is enough for him to forget all the pain and lack of substance to his life. She is his panacea, his all-cure.
Haply I think on thee,--and then my state...
By the end of the sonnet, the speaker has completely changed his mind--or at least, he has become satisfied. The leap from an imagined wealthy man to someone as powerful as a king shows just how strong of an influence love holds on him. Before the Turn, he yearned for money and power; it was not until the Turn that it became evident he truly yearned for his love. Sonnet 29 is a love poem indeed.
...That then I scorn to change my fate with kings'.
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