| O, sure I am, the wits of former days |

| To subjects worse have given admiring praise. |

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Sonnet 60

|LX. |

|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 sequent toil all forwards do contend. |

|Nativity, once in the main of light, |

|Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd, |

|Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight, |

|And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. |

|Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth |

|And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, |

|Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, |

|And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: |

| And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, |

| Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. |

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Sonnet 61

|LXI. |

|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 to thee do mock my sight? |

|Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee |

|So far from home into my deeds to pry, |

|To find out shames and idle hours in me, |

|The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? |

|O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: |

|It is my love that keeps mine eye awake; |

|Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, |

|To play the watchman ever for thy sake: |

| For thee watch I whilst thou dost wake |

|elsewhere, |

| From me far off, with others all too near. |

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Sonnet 62

|LXII. |

|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 my heart. |

|Methinks no face so gracious is as mine, |

|No shape so true, no truth of such account; |

|And for myself mine own worth do define, |

|As I all other in all worths surmount. |

|But when my glass shows me myself indeed, |

|Beated and chopp'd with tann'd antiquity, |

|Mine own self-love quite contrary I read; |

|Self so self-loving were iniquity. |

| 'Tis thee, myself, that for myself I praise, |

| Painting my age with beauty of thy days. |

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Sonnet 63

|LXIII. |

|Against my love shall be, as I am now, |

|With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'er-worn;|

| |

|When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his |

|brow |

|With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn |

|Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night, |

|And all those beauties whereof now he's king |

|Are vanishing or vanish'd 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. |

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Sonnet 64

|LXIV. |

|When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced |

|The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; |

|When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed |

|And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; |

|When I have seen the hungry ocean gain |

|Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, |

|And the firm soil win of the watery main, |

|Increasing store with loss and loss with store; |

|When I have seen such interchange of state, |

|Or state itself confounded to decay; |

|Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, |

|That Time will come and take my love away. |

| This thought is as a death, which cannot choose|

| |

| But weep to have that which it fears to lose. |

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Sonnet 65

|LXV. |

|Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless |

|sea, |

|But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, |

|How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, |

|Whose action is no stronger than a flower? |

|O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out |

|Against the wreckful siege of battering days, |

|When rocks impregnable are not so stout, |

|Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? |

|O fearful meditation! where, alack, |

|Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie |

|hid? |

|Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?|

| |

|Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? |

| O, none, unless this miracle have might, |

| That in black ink my love may still shine |

|bright. |

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|Sonnet 66 |

|LXVI. |

|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 unhappily forsworn, |

|And guilded honour shamefully misplaced, |

|And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, |

|And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, |

|And strength by limping sway disabled, |

|And art made tongue-tied by authority, |

|And folly doctor-like controlling skill, |

|And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, |

|And captive good attending captain ill: |

| Tired with all these, from these would I be gone, |

| Save that, to die, I leave my love alone. |

| |

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|Sonnet 67 |

|LXVII. |

|Ah! wherefore with infection should he live, |

|And with his presence grace impiety, |

|That sin by him advantage should achieve |

|And lace itself with his society? |

|Why should false painting imitate his cheek |

|And steal dead seeing of his living hue? |

|Why should poor beauty indirectly seek |

|Roses of shadow, since his rose is true? |

|Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is, |

|Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins? |

|For she hath no exchequer now but his, |

|And, proud of many, lives upon his gains. |

| O, him she stores, to show what wealth she had |

| In days long since, before these last so bad. |

| |

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Sonnet 68

|LXVIII. |

|Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn, |

|When beauty lived and died as flowers do now, |

|Before the bastard signs of fair were born, |

|Or durst inhabit on a living brow; |

|Before the golden tresses of the dead, |

|The right of sepulchres, were shorn away, |

|To live a second life on second head; |

|Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay: |

|In him those holy antique hours are seen, |

|Without all ornament, itself and true, |

|Making no summer of another's green, |

|Robbing no old to dress his beauty new; |

| And him as for a map doth Nature store, |

| To show false Art what beauty was of yore. |

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Sonnet 69

|LXIX. |

|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 souls, give thee that |

|due, |

|Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend. |

|Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd; |

|But those same tongues that give thee so thine |

|own |

|In other accents do this praise confound |

|By seeing farther than the eye hath shown. |

|They look into the beauty of thy mind, |

|And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds; |

|Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes|

|were kind, |

|To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds: |

| But why thy odour matcheth not thy show, |

| The solve is this, that thou dost common grow. |

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Sonnet 70

|LXX. |

|That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, |

|For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; |

|The ornament of beauty is suspect, |

|A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. |

|So thou be good, slander doth but approve |

|Thy worth the greater, being woo'd of time; |

|For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love, |

|And thou present'st a pure unstained prime. |

|Thou hast pass'd by the ambush of young days, |

|Either not assail'd or victor being charged; |

|Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise, |

|To tie up envy evermore enlarged: |

| If some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show, |

| Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst |

|owe. |

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|Sonnet 71 |

|LXXI. |

|No longer mourn for me when I am dead |

|Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell |

|Give warning to the world that I am fled |

|From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell: |

|Nay, if you read this line, remember not |

|The hand that writ it; for I love you so |

|That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot |

|If thinking on me then should make you woe. |

|O, if, I say, you look upon this verse |

|When I perhaps compounded am with clay, |

|Do not so much as my poor name rehearse. |

|But let your love even with my life decay, |

| Lest the wise world should look into your moan |

| And mock you with me after I am gone. |

| |

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Sonnet 72

|LXXII. |

|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, |

|For you in me can nothing worthy prove; |

|Unless you would devise some virtuous lie, |

|To do more for me than mine own desert, |

|And hang more praise upon deceased I |

|Than niggard truth would willingly impart: |

|O, lest your true love may seem false in this, |

|That you for love speak well of me untrue, |

|My name be buried where my body is, |

|And live no more to shame nor me nor you. |

| For I am shamed by that which I bring forth, |

| And so should you, to love things nothing |

|worth. |

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|Sonnet 73 |

|LXXIII. |

|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 ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. |

|In me thou seest the twilight of such day |

|As after sunset fadeth in the west, |

|Which by and by black night doth take away, |

|Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. |

|In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire |

|That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, |

|As the death-bed whereon it must expire |

|Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. |

| This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, |

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