Archivi Giornalieri: 5 Set 2023

«O, lest the world should task you to recite What merit lived in me, that you should love».  […]

«No longer mourn for me when I am dead Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell».  In […]

«That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander’s mark was ever yet the fair».  The […]

«Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view Want nothing that the thought of hearts can […]

«Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn, When beauty lived and died as flowers do now».  […]

«Ah! wherefore with infection should he live, And with his presence grace impiety».  Sonnet 67 continues the thought […]

«Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As, to behold desert a beggar born».  Were it […]

«Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o’er-sways their power».  Continuing many of […]

«When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age».  In […]

«Against my love shall be, as I am now, With Time’s injurious hand crush’d and o’er-worn».  References to […]

«Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye And all my soul and all my every part».  The poet […]

«Is it thy will thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night?».  The youth […]

«Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end».  Sonnet […]