Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie

Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer;
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer,

But reckoning Time, whose millioned accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of alt'ring things—

Alas, why, fearing of Time's tyranny,
Might I not then say, "Now I love you best,"
When I was certain o'er incertainty,

Crowning the present, doubting of the rest?
Love is a babe; then might I not say so,
To give full growth to that which still doth grow.

Submited by

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 02:06

Poesia Consagrada :

  • Login to post comments
  • 4015 reads
No votes yet

Shakespeare

Shakespeare's picture
Offline
Title: Membro
Last seen: 13 years 23 weeks ago
Joined: 10/14/2008
Posts:
Points: 410

Add comment

Login to post comments

other contents of Shakespeare

Topic Title Replies Views Last Postsort icon Language
Poesia Consagrada/General Juliet's Soliloquy 0 1.724 07/12/2011 - 01:25 English
Poesia Consagrada/Love Love 0 2.044 07/12/2011 - 01:26 English
Poesia Consagrada/General My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) 0 2.252 07/12/2011 - 01:27 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14) 0 1.931 07/12/2011 - 01:28 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Not marble nor the guilded monuments (Sonnet 55) 0 2.519 07/12/2011 - 01:29 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile 0 2.356 07/12/2011 - 01:30 English
Poesia Consagrada/General O Never Say That I Was False of Heart 0 3.975 07/12/2011 - 01:31 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Orpheus 0 3.655 07/12/2011 - 01:32 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees 0 3.017 07/12/2011 - 01:33 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) 0 3.824 07/12/2011 - 01:34 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Sigh No More 0 3.804 07/12/2011 - 01:35 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Silvia 0 4.482 07/12/2011 - 01:36 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonet LIV 0 4.449 07/12/2011 - 01:37 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 1 0 4.163 07/12/2011 - 01:38 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 10: For shame, deny that thou bear'st love to any 0 4.073 07/12/2011 - 01:40 English
Poesia Consagrada/General Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long 0 4.063 07/12/2011 - 01:42 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends 0 4.316 07/12/2011 - 01:43 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming 0 3.512 07/12/2011 - 01:50 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth 0 4.268 07/12/2011 - 01:52 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old 0 4.334 07/12/2011 - 01:53 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry 0 4.651 07/12/2011 - 01:53 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time 0 3.958 07/12/2011 - 01:54 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul 0 3.977 07/12/2011 - 01:56 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 108: What's in the brain that ink may character 0 3.933 07/12/2011 - 01:57 English
Poesia Consagrada/Sonnet Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart 0 4.789 07/12/2011 - 01:57 English