When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
This line is the source of the title of the French novelist Marcel Proust’s masterpiece,  À la recherche du temps perdu  (1913-1927) meaning “remembrance of things past”. The allusion is appropriate, as Proust’s work is known for its deep preoccupation with memory and the past, as is Sonnet 30. 

Sonnet 30