Sonnets by William Shakespeare: LXIII

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

LXIII

 Against my love shall be as I am now, With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn; 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 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. 
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