William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets Quotes

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

To give yourself away keep yourself still, And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake, And die as fast as they see others grow.

Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fairTo be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?