“ His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green. ”
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609). copy citation
| Author | William Shakespeare |
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| Source | Shakespeare's Sonnets |
| Topic | life beauty immortality |
| Date | 1609 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1041/1041-h/1041-h.htm |
Context
“Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight, Stealing away the treasure of his spring; For such a time do I now fortify Against confounding age's cruel knife, That he shall never cut from memory My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life: His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, And they shall live, and he in them still green. LXIV 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, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain”
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