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    This sonnet by William Shakespeare describes how as one ages, they will resemble the changing of autumn leaves. In the speaker, the poet sees the fading beauty of sunset and the impending arrival of night, representing growing old and the inevitability of death. The fire of youth that once burned within the speaker is now only ashes, just as their life will soon expire having been nourished to an end. Despite this impending mortality, the poet's love for their subject remains strong and will continue until they are ultimately parted by death.

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    This sonnet by William Shakespeare describes how as one ages, they will resemble the changing of autumn leaves. In the speaker, the poet sees the fading beauty of sunset and the impending arrival of night, representing growing old and the inevitability of death. The fire of youth that once burned within the speaker is now only ashes, just as their life will soon expire having been nourished to an end. Despite this impending mortality, the poet's love for their subject remains strong and will continue until they are ultimately parted by death.

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    This sonnet by William Shakespeare describes how as one ages, they will resemble the changing of autumn leaves. In the speaker, the poet sees the fading beauty of sunset and the impending arrival of night, representing growing old and the inevitability of death. The fire of youth that once burned within the speaker is now only ashes, just as their life will soon expire having been nourished to an end. Despite this impending mortality, the poet's love for their subject remains strong and will continue until they are ultimately parted by death.

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    Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me… | Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45099/sonnet-73-that-ti...

    Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me


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    BY WIL L IAM S H AKES PEAR E

    That time of year thou mayst in me behold


    When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
    Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
    Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
    In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
    As after sunset fadeth in the west,
    Which by and by black night doth take away,
    Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
    In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
    That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
    As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
    Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.
    This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
    To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

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