Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 19 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 19 |
1 Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, 2 And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; 3 Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, 4 And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood; 5 Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets, 6 And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time, 7 To the wide world and all her fading sweets; 8 But I forbid thee one most heinous crime: 9 O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow, 10 Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen; 11 Him in thy course untainted do allow 12 For beauty's pattern to succeeding men. 13 Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong, 14 My love shall in my verse ever live young.
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