The Sonnets LXIII - Against my love shall be as I am now

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Against my love shall be as I am now, With Times injurious hand crushd and oerworn; When hours have draind his blood and filld his brow With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn Hath travelld on to ages steepy night; And all those beauties whereof now hes king Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight, Stealing away the treasure of his spring; For such a time do I now fortify Against confounding ages cruel knife, That he shall never cut from memory My sweet loves beauty, though my lovers life: His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, And they shall live, and he in them still green.

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William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 154 sonnets and narrative poems including "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," alongside 37 plays that remain central to world literature.

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