Shakespeare sonnet 165/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "Neither in inward worth nor outward fair, / Can make you live your self in eyes of men."Ĭannot, in any way, for written lines are not as good as an actual life. That child would fix your old age in a way that I, the poet, "So should the lines of life that life repair, / Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen," Would gladly bear your children, who would look much more like you than a portrait of you: "With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, / Much liker than your painted counterfeit:" Right now you are in your prime, and many virgin wombs, "Now stand you on the top of happy hours, / And many maiden gardens, yet unset," "And fortify your self in your decay / With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?"Īnd ensure that your beauty lives on beyond the way I represent it in this poetry?] Why don't you work harder against the ravages of time? "But wherefore do not you a mightier way / Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?" ![]()
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