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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (55)
2023-12-06LV Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept ...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (56)
2023-12-06LVI Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said Thy edge should blunter be than appetite, Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd, To-morrow sharpe...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (57)
2023-12-06LVII Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (58)
2023-12-06LVIII That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand the account of hours to crav...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (59)
2023-12-06LIX If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd, Which labouring for invention bear amiss The second ...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (60)
2023-12-06LX Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequen...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (61)
2023-12-06LXI Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like ...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (62)
2023-12-06LXII Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye And all my soul, and all my every part; And for this sin there is no remedy, It is so grounded inward in...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (63)
2023-12-06LXIII Against my love shall be as I am now, With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn; When hours have drain'd his blood and fil...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (64)
2023-12-06LXIV When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd, ...