Jon Guercio '09

Shakespeare Sonnet 71

No longer mourn for me when I am dead,
Than you shall hear the surly sullen
bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled

From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay if
you read this line, remember not,
The
hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your
sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O if (I say) you look upon this verse,
When I (perhaps) compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
But let your love
even with my life decay.
Lest the
wise world should look into your moan,
And
mock you with me after I am gone.