English poem
Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another; Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb, Of his self-love to stop posterity? Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time. But if thou live, remember'd not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee.
More by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain
- Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight
- Sonnet 38: How can my muse want subject to invent
- Sonnet 39: O! how thy worth with manners may I sing
- Sonnet 40: Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all
- Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
- Sonnet 42: That thou hast her it is not all my grief
- Sonnet 43: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see