Shakespeare's Sonnets Navigator | Summary of Sonnet 32 in the Table of Contents | Notes for Sonnet 32 |
1 If thou survive my well-contented day, 2 When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover, 3 And shalt by fortune once more re-survey 4 These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover, 5 Compare them with the bettering of the time, 6 And though they be outstripp'd by every pen, 7 Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme, 8 Exceeded by the height of happier men. 9 O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought: 10 'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age, 11 A dearer birth than this his love had brought 12 To march in ranks of better equipage: 13 But since he died and poets better prove, 14 Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.'
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