William Shakespeare
Sonnet xv
TO me, fair friend, you never can be old;
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still. Three Winters cold
Have from the forests shook three Summers’ pride;
Three beauteous Springs to yellow Autumn turn’d
In process of the seasons I have seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn’d,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green,
Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:
For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty’s Summer dead.
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| About the poet |
| William Shakespeare |
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| By the same poet |
| Sonnet i |
| Sonnet ii |
| Sonnet iii |
| Sonnet iv |
| Sonnet v |
| Sonnet vi |
| Sonnet vii |
| Sonnet viii |
| Sonnet ix |
| Sonnet x |
| Sonnet xi |
| Sonnet xii |
| Sonnet xiii |
| Sonnet xiv |
| Sonnet xvi |
| Sonnet xvii |
| Sonnet xviii |
| Sonnet xix |
| Sonnet xx |
| Carpe Diem |
| Silvia |
| The Blossom |
| Spring and Winter (i) |
| Spring and Winter (ii) |
| Fairy Land (i) |
| Fairy Land (ii) |
| Fairy Land (iii) |
| Fairy Land (iv) |
| Fairy Land (v) |
| Love |
| Dirge |
| Under the Greenwood Tree |
| Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind |
| It was a Lover and his Lass |
| Take, O take those Lips away |
| Aubade |
| Fidele |
| The Phoenix and the Turtle |
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| Related books |
| The Arden Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Sonnets, William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones (Editor) |
| Shakespeare's Sonnets (Penguin Classics), William Shakespeare |
| The Complete Sonnets [AUDIOBOOK], William Shakespeare, Michael Williams (Narrator), Peter Egan (Narrator), Peter Orr (Narrator), Bob Peck (Narrator) |
| William Shakespeare at amazon.com |
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