![]() ![]() "Yet, do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong, / My love shall in my verse ever live young."īut even if you don't listen to me, Time, and you make my love grow old and die, through my poetry he will be immortalized as a young man. "Him in thy course untainted do allow / For beauty's pattern to succeeding men."Īllow him to remain beautiful, to serve as a paradigm of beauty for all generations. Time, do not make my love's face grow old and wrinkly "O! carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow, / Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen " "To the wide world and all her fading sweets / But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:"Įverything in the world is a subject to the passing of time, but Time, there is one thing I won't let you do: Time brings the changes of seasons and emotions and does whatever it wants, "Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st, / And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time," Tigers grow old and lose their teeth, and phoenixes burn in their own blood ![]() "Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, / And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood " ![]() ![]() In time, even lions become weak and lose their powerful claws, and everything dies "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, / And make the earth devour her own sweet brood " ![]()
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