StoryTitle("caps", "Sonnet LIV") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For that sweet odour which doth in it live. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Canker-blooms have full as deep a dye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As the perfuméd tincture of the Roses, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When summer's breath their maskéd buds discloses: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But—for their virtue only is their show— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Die to themselves. Sweet Roses do not so; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>