| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| William Shakespeare. 1564–1616 |
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152. Sonnets
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| THAT time of year thou may'st in me behold | |
| When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang | |
| Upon those boughs which shake against the cold— | |
| Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang, | |
| In me thou see'st the twilight of such day | 5 |
| As after Sunset fadeth in the West, | |
| Which by and by black night doth take away, | |
| Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. | |
| In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire | |
| That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, | 10 |
| As the death-bed whereon it must expire, | |
| Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. | |
| This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong | |
| To love that well which thou must leave ere long. | |
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