Poetry by William Shakespeare

Author:William Shakespeare
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: 1500-1600, English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2020-04-24T18:31:56+00:00

“Poor broken glass, I of­ten did be­hold

In thy sweet semb­lance my old age new born;

But now that fair fresh mir­ror, dim and old,

Shows me a bare-boned death by time out­worn:

O, from thy cheeks my im­age thou hast torn,

And shiver’d all the beauty of my glass,

That I no more can see what once I was!

“O time, cease thou thy course and last no longer,

If they sur­cease to be that should sur­vive.

Shall rot­ten death make con­quest of the stronger

And leave the fal­ter­ing feeble souls alive?

The old bees die, the young pos­sess their hive:

Then live, sweet Lucrece, live again, and see

Thy father die, and not thy father thee!”

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