...pride : Then if he thrive, and I be cast away, The worst was this ;—my love was my decay. LXXXI. Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive...The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entomb'd in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created...

...are spent." And yet again, with still greater beauty, if not greater energy, he says, — " Your life from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once...must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, While you, entombed in men's eyes, shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, AVhich eyes not...

...spent." And yet again, with still greater beauty, if not greater energy, he says : — " Your life from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once...must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, While you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not...

...pride : Then if he thrive, and I be cast away, The worst was this, — my love was my decay. LXXXL Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive...take, Although in me each part will be forgotten. Tour name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die : The...

...life: His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, And they shall live, and he in them still green. Or I shall live your Epitaph to make, Or you survive...rotten; From hence your memory Death cannot take, Altho' in me each part will be forgotten: Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Tho' I, once...

...The worth of that, is that which it contains, And that is this, and this with thee remains. — 74. Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive...take, Although in me each part will be forgotten. Yourname from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die : The...

...that is that which it contains, And that is this, and this with thee remains. Sonett 81. ____________ Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though...all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a commen grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which...

...arc spent" And yet again, with still greater beauty, if not greater energy, he says, — " Your life from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once...must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, While you, entombed in men's eyes, shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not...

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...Thou by thy dial's shady stealth may'st know Time's thievish progress to eternity." — Sonnet 77. " Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten." — Sonnet 81. These are but one or two out of many such passages occurring in the Sonnets. Indeed,...