Mine eyes

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Who plead for love, and look for recompence,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; More than that tongue that more hath more es-
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

press'd.
When in eternal lines to time thou growest : O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

XXIV.
XIX.

Mine eye hath play'd the painter, and hath steeld
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; My body is the frame wherein 'iis held,
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,

And perspective it is best painter's art. And burn the long-liv'd phenix in her blood;

For through the painter must you see his skill, Make glad and sorry seasons as thou feet'si,

To find where your true image pictur'd lies; And do whate'er thou wilt, swifi-footed Time,

Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still, To the wide world, and all her fading sweets;

That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes. But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:

Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done; 0, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,

have drawn thy shape, and thine for me Nor draw no lines there with ihine antique pen;

Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun Him in thy course untainted do allow,

Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee; For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.

Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art, Yet, do thy worst, old Time : despite thy wrong,

They draw but what they see, know not the heart. My love shall in my verse ever live young.

XXV.
XX.

Let those who are in favour with their stars,
A woman's face, with nature's own hand painted,

of public honour and proud titles boast, Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;

Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars, A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted

Uplook'd for joy in that I honour most.
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread,
An eye more brighi than theirs, less false in rolling, And in themselves their pride lies buried,

But as the marigold at the sun's eye ;
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in huc all hues in his controlling, [zeth.

For at a frown they in their glory die.
Which steals men's eyes, and women's souls ama- The painful warrior famoused for fight,
And for a woman weri thou first created ;

After a thousand victories once foil'd; Till nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,

Is from the book of honour razed quite, And by addition me of thee defeated,

And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. By adding one thing to my purpose nothing,

Then happy I, that love and am belov'd, But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,

Where I may not remove, nor be remov'd.
Mine be thy love, and thy love's use their treasure.

XXVI.
XXI.

Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
So is it not with me, as with that muse

Thy merit' hath my duty strongly knit;

To thee I send this written embassage,
Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse ;
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use,

To witness duty, not to show my wit :

Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse;
Making a couplement of proud compare,

May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it, With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems, In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it:

But that I hope some good conceit of thine
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare Till whatsoever star that guides my moving,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.

Points on me graciously with fair aspect,
O let me, true in love, but truly write,
And then believe me, my love is as fair

And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,

To show me worthy of thy sweet respect :
As any mother's child, though not so bright

Then
may

I dare to boast how do love thee; (me.
As those gold candles fix'd in heaven's air :
Let them say more that like of hearsay well;

Till then, not show my head where thou may’si prove I will not praise, that purpose not to sell.

XXVII.
XXII.

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,

The dear repose for limbs with travel tir'd; My glass shall not persuade me I am old,

But then begins a journey in my head, So long as youth and thou are of one date;

To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: But when in thee time's furrows I behold,

For then my thoughts (from far where I abide) Then look I death my days should expiate. For all that beauty that doth cover thee,

Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,

And keep my drooping eye-lids open wide,
Is but the secmly raiment of my heart,

Looking on darkness which the blind do sce:
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me;
How can I then be elder than thou art ?

Save that my soul's imaginary sight

Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, O therefore, love, be of thyself so wary,

Which like a jewel hung in ghastly night, As I not for myself but for thee will;

Makes black night beauteous, and her old face new. Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary

Lo thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.

For thee, and for myself, no quiel find.
Presume not on thy heart, when mine is slain ;
Thou gav'st me thine, not to give back again.

XXVIII.
XXIII.

How can I then return in happy plight,

That am debarr'd the benefit of rest? As an unperfect actor on the stage,

When day's oppression is not eas'd by night, Who with his fear is put besides his part,

But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd ? Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage, And each, though enemies to either's reign, Whose strength's abundance weakens his own Do in consent shake hands to torture me

ne; So I, for fear of trust, forget to say [heart; | The one hv toil, the other to complain The perfect ceremony of love's riie,

How far I toil, still farther off from thee. And in mine own love's strength seem to decay, I tell the day, to please him, thou art bright, O'er-charg'd with burthen of nine own love's might. And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven, 0, let my books be then the eloquence

So fatter I the swart-complexion'd night And dumb presagers of my speaking breast; When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even

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But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer, Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth ;
And night doth nightly make grief's length seem Suns of the world may stain, when heaven's sun
stronger.

staineth.
XXIX.

XXXIV.
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
I all alone beweep my out-cast state,

And make me travel forth without my cloak,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,

Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke ?
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, "Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
Featur'à like him, like him with friends possessid, To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, For no man well of such a salve can speak,
With what I most enjoy contented least ;

That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Haply I think on thee,-and then my slate Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss :
(Like to the lark at break of day arising

The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate :) To him that bears the strong offence's cross.
For thy sweet love remember'd, such wealth brings, Ah! but those tears are pearl, which thy love sheds,
That then I scorn to change my state with kings. And they are rich, and ransom all ili deeds.
XXX.

XXXV.

No more be griev'd at that which thou hast done :
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
I summon up remembrance of things past,

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,

And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: All men make faults, and even I in this,
Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,

Authorizing thy trespass with compare ;
And weep afresh love's long-since-cancell'd wo,

Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are :
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Then can I grieve at grievances fore-gone, (Thy adverse party is thy advocate,)
And heavily from wo to wo tell o'er

And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence ;
The sad account of fore-beinoaned moan.

Such civil war is in my love and hate,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.

That I an accessary needs must be
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,

To that sweet thiet, which sourly robs from me.
All losses are restor'd, and sorrows end.

XXXVI.
XXXI.

Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,

Although our undivided loves are one :
Which I by lacking have supposed dead;

So shall those blots that do with me remain,
And there reigns love, and all love's loving parts, Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
And all those friends which I thought buried.

In our two loves there is but one respect,
How niany a holy and obsequious tear

Though in our lives a separable spite,
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye,

Which though it alter noi love's sole effect,
As interest of the dead, which now appear

Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
But things remov'd, that hidden in thee lie! I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Thou art the grave where buried love doth live, Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame;
Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,

Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give;

Unless thou take that honour from thy name :
That due of many now is thine alone :

But do not so; I love thee in such sort,
Their images I lov'd I view in thee,

As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
And thou (all they) hast all the all of me.

XXXVII.
XXXII.

As a decrepit father takes delight
If thou survive my well-contented day,

[cover;

To see his active child do deeds of youth,
When that churl"Death my bones with dust shall Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth;

So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,
And shalt by fortune once more re-survey

For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,

Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Compare them with the beitering of the time,
And, though they be out-stripp'd ly every pen,

Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
Reserve them for my love, not for i heir rhyme,

I make my love engrafted to this store:

So then I'am not lame, poor, nor despis’d,
Exceeded by the height of happier men,
0, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought!

Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give,
Hal my friend's muse grown with this growing age,

That I in thy abundance am sufficed,
A dearer birth than this his love had brought,

And by a part of all thy glory live.
To march in ranks of better equipage :

Look whai is best, that best I wish in thee;
But since he died, and poels better prove,

This wish I have; then ten times happy me.
Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.

XXXVIII.
XXXIII.

How can my muse want subject to invent,

While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Full many a glorious morning have I seen Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, For every vulgar paper to rehearse ?
Kissing with golden face the meadows green, 0, give thyself the thanks, if aught in me
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy; Worthy perusal, stand against thy sight;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride

For who's so dumb that cannot write to theo,
With ugly rack on his celestial face,

When thou thyself dost give invention light? And from the forlorn world his visage hide,

Be thou the tenth muse, ten times more in worth
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : Than those old nine, which rhymers invocate ;
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,

And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth
With all triumphant splendour on my brow; Eternal numbers to out-live long date.
But out, alack! he was but one hour mine, If my slight muse do please these curious days,
The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now. The pain be mine but thine shall be the praise

XXXIX.

XLIV. O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, When thou art all the better part of me? Injurious distance should not stop my way; What can mine own praise to mine own self bring? For then, despite of space, I would be brought And what is't but mine own, when I praise thee? From limits far remote, where thou dost stay. Even for this let us divided live,

No matter, then, although my foot did stand And our dear love lose name of single one ; Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee, That by this separation I may give

For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
That due to thee, which thou deserv'st alone. As soon as think the place where he would be.
O absence, what a torment would'st thou prove, But ah! thought kills me, that I am not thought,
Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave To leap large lengihs of miles, when thou art gone,
To entertain the time with thoughts of love, But that so much of earth and water wrought,
(Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,) I must attend time's leisure with my moan;
And that thou teachest how to make one twain, Receiving nought by elements so slow
By praising him here, who doth hence remain. But heavy tears, badges of either's wo:
XL.

XLV.
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; The other two, slight air and purging fire,
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? Are both with thee, wherever I abide ;
No love, my love, that thou may'st true love call; The first my thought, the other my desire,
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more. These present-absent with swift motion slide
Then, if for my love thou my love receivest, For when these quicker elements are gone
I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest; In tender embassy of love to thee,
But yet be blam'd, if thou thyself deceivest My life, being made of four, with two alone
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.

Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy; I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thies,

Until life's composition be recur'd Although thou steal thee all my poverty;

By those swift messengers return'd from thee, And yet love knows, it is a greater grief

Who even but now come back again, assur'd
To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury. Of thy fair health, recounting it to me :
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows, This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
Kill me with spites; yet we must not be fues. I send them back again, and straight grow sad.
XLI.

XLVI.
Those protty wrongs that liberty commits, Mino eye and heart are at a mortal war,
When I am sometime absent from thy heart, How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,

Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
For still temptation follows where thou art. Mine heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won, My heart doth plead, that thou in him dost olie,
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assail'd; (A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes,)
And when a woman woos, what woman's son But the defendant doth that plea deny,
Win sourly leave her till she have prevail'd. And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
Ah me! but yet thou might'st, my sweet, forbear, To 'cide this title is impannelled
And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth, A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart;
Who lead thee in their riot even there

And by their verdict is determined Where thou art forc'd to break a two-fold truth : The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part: Hers, by thy beauty tempting her to thee,

As thus; mine eye's due is thine outward part, Thine, by thy beauty being false to me.

And my heart's right thine inward love of heart. XLII.

XLVII. That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,

Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, And yet it may be said I lov'd her dearly; And each doth good turns now unto the other;

That she hath thee, is of my wailing chief, When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
A loss in love that touchos me more nearly. Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
Loving offenders, thus I will excuse ye : -

With my love's picture then my eye doth feast, Thou dost love her, because thou knew'st I love her; and to the painted banquet bids my heart : And for my sake even so doth she abuse me, Another time mine eye is my heart's guest, Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her; And in his thoughts of love doth share a part: If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,

So, either by thy picture or my love, And, losing her, my friend hath found that loss; Thyself away, art present still with me; Both find each other, and I lose both twain, For thou not farther than my thoughts canst moro, And both for my sake lay on me this cross : And I am still with them, and they with thee; But here's the joy; my friend and

are one;

Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight Sweet flattery!--then she lovos but me alone. Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight. XLIII.

XLVIII.
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best seo, How careful was I, when I took my way,
For all the day they view things unrespected; Each trifle under truest bars to thrust;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, That, to my use, it might unused stay
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed, From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make

bright, But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,
To the clear day with thy much clearer light, Thou, best of dearest, and mine only care,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so ? Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
How would (I say) mine eyes be blessed made Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
By looking on thee in the living day,

Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,
When in dend night thy fair imperfect shade Within the gentle closure of my breast, (part;
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay? From whence at pleasure thou may'xt come and
All days are nights io see, till I see thee, (me. And even thence thou wilt be stolen, I fear,
And nights, bright days, when dreams do show thee For truth proves thiovish for a prize so dear.

XLIX.

LIV.
Against that time, if ever that time come, o, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
When as thy love hath cast his uimost sum, The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
Calld to that audit by advis'd respects;

For that sweet odour which doth in it live,
Against that time, when thou shali strangely pass, The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye,
And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye ; As the perfumed tincture of the roses ;
When love, converted from the thing it was, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly
Shall reasons find of settled gravity;

When summer's breach their masked buds discioses;
Against that time do I ensconce me here,

Bul, for their virtue only is their show,
Within the knowledge of mine own deserl

They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ;
And this my hand against myself uprear,

Die to themselves; Sweet roses do not so;
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:

of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made;
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws, And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
Since, why to love, I can allege no cause.

When thai shall fade, my verse distils your truth.
L.

LV.
How heavy do I journey on the way,

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
When what I seek,-my weary travel's end, - Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ;
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say, Bui you shall shine more bright in these contents
Thus far the miles are measur'd from thy friend ! Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish timo.
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,

When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,

And broils root out the work of masonry,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
His rider lov'd not speed, being made from thee :

The living record of your memory.
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on

'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity

(room That sometimes anger thrusts into his bide; Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find Which heavily he answers with a groan,

Even in the eyes of all posterity,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side ; That wear this world out to the ending doom.
For that saine groan doth put this in my mind, - So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
LI.

LVI.
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence Sweet love, renew thy force ; be it not said,
of my dull bearer, when from thee I speed : Thy edge should blunter be than appetite ;
From where thou art why should I haste me thence? Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
Till I return, of posting is no need.

To-morrow sharpen'd in his former might:
0, what excuse will my poor beast then find, So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill
When swift extremity can seem but slow? Thy hungry eyes, even till they wink with fulness,
Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind ? To-morrow see again, and do not kill
In winged speed no motion shall I know : The spirit of love with a perpetual dulness.
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace; Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Therefore desire, of perfect love being made, Which parts the shore, where two contracfed-new
Shall neigh (no dull desh) in his fiery race; Come daily to the banks, that, when they see
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade ; Return of love, more blest may be the view;
Since from thee going he went wilful-slow, Or call it winter, which being full of care, (rare.
Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go. Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, moro
LII.

LVII.
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key

Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, Upon the hours and times of your

desire ?
The which he will not every hour survey,

I have no precious time at all to spend
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure, Nor services to do, till you require.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,
Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.

When you have bid your servant once adieu;
So is the time that keeps you, as my chest, Nor dare I question with my jealous thought,
Or as the wardrobe, which the robe doth hide, Where you may be, or your affairs suppose;
To make some special instant special-blest, But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.

Save, where you are, how happy you make those ;
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope, So true a fool is love, that in your will
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope. (Though you do any thing) he thinks no ill.
LIII.

LVIII.
What is your substance, whereof are you made, That God forbid, that made me first your slave,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend? I should in thought control your times of pleasure,
Since every one hath, every one, one shado, Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,
And
yoll,
but
one, can every shadow lend.

Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure ! Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit

0, let me suffer (being at your beck)
Is poorly imitated after you;

The imprisun'd absence of your liberty
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,

And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each check,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new : Without accusing you of injury.
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year ;

Be where you list; your charter is so strong,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show, That you yourself may privilege your time :
The other as your bounty doth appear ;

Do what you will, to you it doth belong
And you in every blessed shape we know. Yourself io pardon of self-doing crime.
In all external grace you have some part,

I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;
But you like none, none vou, for constant heart. Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.

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LIX.

LXIV. If there be nothing new, but that, which is,

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd Hath been before, how are our brains beguild,

The rich-proud cost of out-worn bury'd age; Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss

When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz’d, The second burthen of a former child ?

nd brass eternal slave to mortal rage : O, that record could with a backward look,

When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Even of five hundred courses of the sun,

Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, Show me your image in some antique book,'

And the firm soil win of the watery main, Since mind at first in character was done! Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; That I might see what the old world could say

When I have seen such interchange of state, To this composed wonder of your frame;

Or state itself confounded to decay ; Whether we are mended, or whe'r better they,

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate Or whether revolution be the same.

That time will come, and take my love away. 0! sure I am, the wits of former days

This thought is as a death, which cannot choose To subjects worse have given admiring praise. But weep to have that which it fears to lose. LX.

LXV.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before ; Whose action is no stronger than a flower ?

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

O, how shall summer's boney breath hold out Nativity once in the main of light,

Against the wreckful siege of battering days, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,

When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,

Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays? And time that gave, doth now his gift confound.

O, fearful meditation ! where, alack,
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow;

Shall times's best jewel from time's' chest lie hid ?

Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,

Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:

O none, unless this miracle have might, And yet, tv times in hope, my verse shall stand,

That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

LXVI.
LXI.

Tir’d with all these, for restful death I cry,—
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open As, to behold desert a beggar born,
My heavy eye-lids to the weary night?

And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
While shadows, like to thee, do mock my sight? And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee

And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, So far from home, into my deeds to pry ;

And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd, To find out shames and idle hours in me,

And strength by limping sway disabled, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?

And art made tongue-ty'd by authority,
O no! thy love, though much, is not so great; And folly (doctor-like) controlling skill,
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake And simple truth miscallid siinplicity,
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, And captive good attending captain ill:
To play the watchman ever for thy sake : Tir’d with all these, from these would I be gone,
For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere Save thai, to die, I leave my love alone.
From me far off, with others all-too-near.

LXVII.
LXI.

Ah! wherefore with infection should ho live,
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye,

And with his presence grace impiety, And all my soul, and all my every part;

That sin by him advantage should achieve, And for this sin there is no remedy,

And lace itself with his society ? It is so grounded inward in my heart,

Why should false painting imitate his cheek. Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,

And steal dead seeing of his living hue ? No shape so true, no truth of such account; Why should poor beauty indirectly seek And for myself mine own worth do define, Roses of shadow, since his rose is true ? As I all other in all worths surmount.

Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is, But when my glass shows me myself indeed, Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins ? Beated and chopp'd with tann'd antiquity,

For she hath no exchequer now but his, Mine own self-love quite contrary I read, And, proud of many, lives upon his gains. Self so self-loving were iniquity.

O, him she stores, to show what wealth she had. 'Tis thee (myself that for myself I praise, In days long since, before these last so bad. Painting my age with beauty of thy days.

LXVIII.
LXIII.

Thus is his cheek the map of days out-worn,

When beauty liv'd and died, as flowers do now, Against my love shall be, as I am now,

Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
With time's injurious haud crush'd and o'er worn; Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
When hours have drain'd his blood, and fill'd his brow Before the golden tresses of the dead,
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
Hath travellid on to age's steepy night;

To live a second life on second head ;'
And all those beauties, whereof now he's king,

Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay: Are vanishing or vanish'd out of sight,

In him those holy antique hours are seen, Stealing away the treasure of his spring;

Without all ornament, itsell, and true, For such a time do I now fortify

Making no summer of another's green, Against confounding age's cruel knife,

Robbing no old to dress his beauty new ; That he shall never cut from memory

And him as for a map doth nature store,
My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life :

To show false art what beauty was of yore.
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
And they shall live, and he in them still green.

ī Before the golden tresses of the dead,

The right of sepulchres, were shorn away, I Show me your image in some antique book.'-- To live a second life on second head." It was an ancient custom to insert real portraits among In our author's time, the false hair, usually worn the ornaments of illuminated manuscripts, with inscrip- perhaps in coinpliment to the queen, was of a sandy tions under them.-Steedens.

colour. Hence the epithel, golden.-- Malone,