Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, Then can I weep, from an eye which does not often shed tears.
waste also conveys the meaning of destruction and barrenness. My dear time's waste = the squandering of my precious time. The freshness of his grief is contrasted with the age of his sorrows, which, to heighten his sense of despair, he resurrects. This were to be new made when thou art old, 2, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Shakespeare uses the new/old contrast in two other sonnets I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, I sigh the lack of = I sigh for the absence of, for the fact that I never attained. Remembrance of things past - the phrase occurs in the bible also. But there is also the meaning of summoning up spirits, as if remembrances of the past were spirits which could be called back from the grave. I summon up remembrance of things past, summon up - as in summoning a witness.
The court imagery is continued with summon up in the following line. We still use phrases such as quarter sessions in connection with legal sittings. To the sessions of sweet silent thought sessions - the sitting of a court.
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