Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 12 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 12 |
1 When I do count the clock that tells the time, 2 And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; 3 When I behold the violet past prime, 4 And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; 5 When lofty trees I see barren of leaves 6 Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, 7 And summer's green all girded up in sheaves 8 Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, 9 Then of thy beauty do I question make, 10 That thou among the wastes of time must go, 11 Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake 12 And die as fast as they see others grow; 13 And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence 14 Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
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