Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 81 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 81 |
1 Or I shall live your epitaph to make, 2 Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; 3 From hence your memory death cannot take, 4 Although in me each part will be forgotten. 5 Your name from hence immortal life shall have, 6 Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: 7 The earth can yield me but a common grave, 8 When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. 9 Your monument shall be my gentle verse, 10 Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, 11 And tongues to be your being shall rehearse 12 When all the breathers of this world are dead; 13 You still shall livesuch virtue hath my pen 14 Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. |
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