XVII



Who will believe my verse in time to come,

If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?

Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb

Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts. 

If I could write the beauty of your eyes,

And in fresh numbers number all your graces,

The age to come would say 'This poet lies;

Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

So should my papers, yellow'd with their age,

Be scorn'd, like old men of less truth than tongue,

And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage

And stretched metre of an antique song:

  But were some child of yours alive that time,

  You should live twice,--in it, and in my rhyme.

 	--William Shakespeare

XXXVII



As a decrepit father takes delight

To see his active child do deeds of youth,

So I, made lame by Fortune's dearest spite,

Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth; 

For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,

Or any of these all, or all, or more,

Entitled in thy parts, do crowned sit,

I make my love engrafted, to this store:

So then I am not lame, poor, nor despis'd,

Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give

That I in thy abundance am suffic'd,

And by a part of all thy glory live.

  Look what is best, that best I wish in thee:

  This wish I have; then ten times happy me!



XXXVIII



How can my muse want subject to invent,

While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse

Thine own sweet argument, too excellent

For every vulgar paper to rehearse?

O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me

Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;

For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,

When thou thy self dost give invention light? 

Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth

Than those old nine which rhymers invocate;

And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth

Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

  If my slight muse do please these curious days,

  The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.

 	--William Shakespeare

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Th  new	Shakespeare	08-15-05 22:44
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XXXIV Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And mak  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 07:47
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --Al  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 08:03
CVI When in the chronicle of wasted time I see description  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 08:35
CXLIV Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 09:09
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XLV The other two, slight air, and purging fire Are both w  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 12:19
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I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. --Albert Einstei  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 15:03
Though argument does not create conviction, lack of it destroys b  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 16:08
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions ov  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-12-05 17:26
LXXIII That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yell  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 17:49
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CXV Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 20:13
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XXXIX O! how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou  new	Shakespeare	10-13-05 00:25
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LV Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall  new	Hamlet	10-13-05 13:24
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Founding Fathers Quotes An unlimited power to tax involves, ne  new	Shakespeare	10-13-05 16:07
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XVII Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-13-05 19:15
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its  new	Shakespeare	10-13-05 21:19
My gaze on Beatrice, hers on Heaven, In less time than an arrow s  new	Shakespeare	10-14-05 00:16
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XLVI Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 12:15
XXVIII How can I then return in happy plight, That am deba  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-17-05 12:41
Men are what their mothers made them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 14:04
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. --Albert Eins  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 14:54
XX A woman's face with nature's own hand painted, Hast t  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 15:45
LXXII O! lest the world should task you to recite What mer  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 15:47
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CL O! from what power hast thou this powerful might, With  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 17:12
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CXV Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those  new	Shakespeare	10-19-05 02:18
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Men are what their mothers made them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Shakespeare	10-21-05 03:43
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. --Albert Einst  new	Shakespeare	10-21-05 04:34
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot  new	Hamlet	10-21-05 17:43
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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow so  new	Shakespeare	10-23-05 08:45
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