Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 122 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 122 |
1 Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain 2 Full character'd with lasting memory, 3 Which shall above that idle rank remain 4 Beyond all date, even to eternity; 5 Or at the least, so long as brain and heart 6 Have faculty by nature to subsist, 7 Till each to raz'd oblivion yield his part 8 Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd. 9 That poor retention could not so much hold, 10 Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score; 11 Therefore to give them from me was I bold, 12 To trust those tables that receive thee more: 13 To keep an adjunct to remember thee 14 Were to import forgetfulness in me. |
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