English poem
Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead
No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it, for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if,--I say you look upon this verse, When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse; But let your love even with my life decay; Lest the wise world should look into your moan, And mock you with me after I am gone.
More by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn
- Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface
- Sonnet 70: That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect
- Sonnet 72: O! lest the world should task you to recite
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
- Sonnet 74: But be contented: when that fell arrest
- Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life