English poem
Sonnet 107: Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confin'd doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd, And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time, My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rime, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
More by William Shakespeare
- Scene 6
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- Sonnet 105: Let not my love be call'd idolatry
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time
- Sonnet 108: What's in the brain, that ink may character
- Sonnet 10: For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any
- Sonnet 110: Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there
- Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide