Sonnet 12

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1609

Sonnet 12 by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 12 continues the procreation theme in a sequence of 17 sonnets. This is one of the more famous ones, with its startling opening of the clock and the counting of time. Its focus on ageing and decay is countered by the urging to breed and produce beautiful children to carry on the Fair Youth’s...

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When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard;
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Death's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

Sonnet 12

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