...youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But...overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars's sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious...

...youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth. LV. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But...Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. And broils root out the work of masonry, When wasteful war shall statues overturn, Nor Mars's sword...

...distils your truth. [" Broils root out the work of masonry."] LV. Not marble, not the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But...more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear 'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overtura, And broils root out the work...

...mistress the deathlessness of his own ' powerful rhyme :' — - When wasteful war shall statues orerturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn, This living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth ; your...

...of the poet, when promising to his mistress the deathlessness of his own ' powerful rhyme :' — • When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn, This living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth ; your...

...whole of the 55th sonnet is dedicated to the same thought : — Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But...more bright in these contents, Than unswept stone, besmeor'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work...

...printing, or that they are going to get printed — who does not know or care whether they are or not.] ' But you shall shine more bright in these contents,...sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn [iconoclasmj And broils [civil war] root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick...

...out a lofty self-estimate, none the less true for its candour : Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme ; But...you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unwept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root...

...out a lofty self-estimate, none the less true for its candour: >Tot marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unwept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root...

...untergebt. 2. Not marble, uor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive1 this powerful rhime ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents...statues overturn. And broils root out the work of masourv. Nor Marsis sword nor war's quick tire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst...