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By William Shakespeare
From Shakespeare: The Sonnets

When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age,
When sometime lofty towers I see down razed,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage,
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store,
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay,
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That time will come and take my love away.
       This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
       But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

Comments

[alissia o'gormley]

i like this because it is affective

[kelly breslin]

i like this katrina poetry because it is realy affective and has gave me some great ideas for my drama lesson where i am going to creat an adstract/narrative drama

[FertilAid for Women]

Good poem. I like it so much. :)