StoryTitle("caps", "Sonnet CVI") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When in the chronicle of wasted time ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I see descriptions of the fairest wights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And beauty making beautiful old rime ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In praise of Ladies dead and lovely Knights; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I see their antique pen would have exprest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Even such a beauty as you master now. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So all their praises are but prophecies ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of this our time, all you prefiguring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And for they look'd but with divining eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They had not skill enough your worth to sing: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For we, which now behold these present days, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.", "") ?>
Poet("William Shakespeare", "1564-1616") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>