 And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;* But thy eternal summer shall...  Sonnets - Page 56by William Shakespeare - 1891 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 752 pages
...in eternal lines to time thou gro* eft : So long as men can breathe, or eyes can fee, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. XIX. Devouring...the lion's paws, And make the earth devour her own fweet brood ; Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tyger's jaws, And burn the long-liv'd phoenix in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1798 - 306 pages
...in eternal lines to time thou groweft : So long as men can breathe, or eyes can fee, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. XIX. Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, And made the earth devour her own fweet brood ; Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tyger's jaws, And... | |
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd. But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession...time thou growest : So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Dulces Reditus. Redi, redi nunc ; redditur... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...dimm'cl ; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, imtrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair tlimi owest ; Nor shall Death brag tbon wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou... | |
 | England - 1828 - 964 pages
...dimm'd ; And every Fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd. . But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession...of that fair thou owest, Nor shall Death brag, thou wanderest in his shade, While in eternal lines to time thou growest ; >, So long as men can breathe,... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 564 pages
...hath all too short a date." and at the close exclaims with proud but unselfish consciousness — " But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession...time thou growest ; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee !" * So in the following sonnet. t Again,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...Juliet : And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd6; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest 7 ; Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest :... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 598 pages
...dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance, or Nature's changing course untrimm'd ; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession...time thou growest : So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. * There does not appear to me a shadow... | |
 | 1823 - 608 pages
...dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance, or Nature's changing course unlrimmM ; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession...time thou growest : So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. * There does not appear to me a shadow... | |
 | 1823 - 622 pages
...dimm'd ; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance, or Nature's changing course uutrimm'd ; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession...thou owest ; Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in bis shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest : So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,... | |
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