SONNET #6
by: William Shakespeare
- HEN let
not winter's ragged hand deface
- In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled:
- Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
- With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
- That use is not forbidden usury
- Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
- That's for thyself to breed another thee,
- Or ten times happier be it ten for one.
- Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
- If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
- Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
- Leaving thee living in posterity?
- Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
- To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
"Sonnet #6" was originally
published in Shake-speares Sonnets: Never before Imprinted
(1609). |
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