Aug 19, 2018

When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the...

Aug 12, 2018

As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st,
In one of thine, from that which thou departest,
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow’st
Thou mayst call thine, when thou from youth convertest.
Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase,
Without this, folly, age, and cold decay.
If all were minded so, the...

Aug 5, 2018

For shame deny that thou bear’st love to any,
Who for thyself art so unprovident.
Grant, if thou wilt, thou art belov’d of many,
But that thou none lov’st is most evident;
For thou art so possess’d with murd’rous hate,
That ’gainst thyself thou stick’st not to conspire,
Seeking that beauteous roof to...