To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey’d,Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare · Shakespeare's Sonnets
Toasts, celebration & friendship
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old,”
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Work
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Year
- 1609
- Chapter / part
- Sonnet CIV
- Length
- 24 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #1041
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. William Shakespeare died in 1616, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1609. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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