Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spendUpon thyself thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,And being frank she lends to those are free: Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuseThe bounteous largess giv...

Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest, Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb ...

IV век н.э. 1 Что дам царю? То, что с ним схоже. Что с венценосным солнцем схоже. Зарю ли дам я, что займется, Займется с этим солнцем схожа. Не радугу ль я дам, что станет Ему достойным обрамленьем. Не бальза...

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against...

Love is too young to know what conscience is,Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove.For, thou betraying me, I do betrayMy nobler part to my gro...

Canst thou, О cruel, say I love thee not,When I against myself with thee partake?Do I not think on thee, when I forgotAm of myself, all tyrant for thy sake?Who hateth thee that I do call my friend?On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn U...