Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
Make answer, Muse. Wilt thou not haply say,
"Truth needs no colour with his colour fixed,
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay,
But best is best, if never intermixed"?
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so, for't lies in thee
To make him much outlive a gilded tomb
And to be praised of ages yet to be.
Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how
To make him seem, long hence, as he shows now.
Submited by
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 01:43
Poesia Consagrada :
- Login to post comments
- 4313 reads
Shakespeare
other contents of Shakespeare
| Topic | Title | Replies | Views |
Last Post |
Language | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Sigh No More | 0 | 3.802 | 07/12/2011 - 01:35 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) | 0 | 3.823 | 07/12/2011 - 01:34 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees | 0 | 3.014 | 07/12/2011 - 01:33 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Orpheus | 0 | 3.655 | 07/12/2011 - 01:32 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | O Never Say That I Was False of Heart | 0 | 3.973 | 07/12/2011 - 01:31 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile | 0 | 2.354 | 07/12/2011 - 01:30 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) | 0 | 2.518 | 07/12/2011 - 01:29 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) | 0 | 1.929 | 07/12/2011 - 01:28 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) | 0 | 2.251 | 07/12/2011 - 01:27 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/Love | Love | 0 | 2.043 | 07/12/2011 - 01:26 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Juliet's Soliloquy | 0 | 1.717 | 07/12/2011 - 01:25 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | It was a Lover and his Lass | 0 | 1.902 | 07/12/2011 - 01:25 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been | 0 | 2.518 | 07/12/2011 - 01:24 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Hark! Hark! The Lark | 0 | 2.092 | 07/12/2011 - 01:20 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Full Fathom Five | 0 | 2.560 | 07/12/2011 - 01:17 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | From you have I been absent in the spring... (Sonnet 98) | 0 | 2.033 | 07/12/2011 - 01:14 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | from Venus and Adonis | 0 | 2.539 | 07/12/2011 - 01:13 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Fidele | 0 | 1.468 | 07/12/2011 - 01:11 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Fear No More | 0 | 1.381 | 07/12/2011 - 01:10 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Fairy Land v | 0 | 1.450 | 07/12/2011 - 01:08 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Fairy Land iii | 0 | 1.732 | 07/12/2011 - 01:07 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Fairy Land ii | 0 | 1.613 | 07/12/2011 - 01:06 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Fairy Land i | 0 | 1.472 | 07/12/2011 - 01:06 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Dirge of the Three Queens | 0 | 2.166 | 07/12/2011 - 01:00 | English | |
| Poesia Consagrada/General | Dirge | 0 | 1.746 | 07/12/2011 - 00:58 | English |
Add comment