Sonnet 19

Analysis by: Christopher Ingraham

Devouring Time, Blunt thou the lion’s

paws,

And make the earth devourher own sweet brood;

Pluck the

keen

teeth from

the fierce

tiger's

jaws,

And burn

the

long-lived

phoenix

in her

blood;

Make glad and sorry Seasons as thou fleets,

And do whate'er Thou wilt, swift-footed

Time,

To the wide world and all her fading sweets;

But I forbid thee onemost heinous

crime:

O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,

Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;

Him in thy course untainted do allow

Forbeauty's

pattern tosucceeding men.

Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,

My love

shall in my verse ever live young.

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