LIFE CONTINUED Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee But if thou live, remember'd not to be, CHILDLESSNESS Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse For having traffic with thyself alone, Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive. Thy unused beauty must be tomb'd with thee, CHANGE AND CONTINUANCE Those hours, that with gentle work did frame For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there; Then, were not summer's distillation left, Nor it nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet. PERPETUATION Then let not winter's ragged hand deface That use is not forbidden usury Which happies those that pay the willing loan; Or ten times happier, be it ten for one; Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart, Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir. FROM SUNRISE TO SUNSET Lo! in the orient when the gracious light And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill, But when from highmost pitch, with weary car, So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon, |