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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (65)
2023-12-06LXV Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Wh...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (66)
2023-12-06LXVI Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unha...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (67)
2023-12-06LXVII Ah! wherefore with infection should he live, And with his presence grace impiety, That sin by him advantage should achieve, And lace itself with...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (68)
2023-12-06LXVIII Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn, When beauty lived and died as flowers do now, Before these bastard signs of fair were born, Or durst...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (69)
2023-12-06LXIX Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend; All tongues——the voice of so...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (70)
2023-12-06LXX That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that fli...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (71)
2023-12-06LXXI No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world wit...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (72)
2023-12-06LXXII O! lest the world should task you to recite What merit lived in me, that you should love After my death,——dear love, forget me quite...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (73)
2023-12-06LXXIII That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare rui...
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THE SONNETS by William Shakespeare (74)
2023-12-06LXXIV But be contented: when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away, My life hath in this line some interest, Which for memorial still ...