Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 64 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 64 |
1 When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced 2 The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; 3 When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed 4 And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; 5 When I have seen the hungry ocean gain 6 Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, 7 And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, 8 Increasing store with loss and loss with store; 9 When I have seen such interchange of state, 10 Or state itself confounded to decay; 11 Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, 12 That Time will come and take my love away. 13 This thought is as a death, which cannot choose 14 But weep to have that which it fears to lose. |
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