Oh let our voice his praise exalt

An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.

The world in all doth but two nations bear — The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

For though the whole world cannot show such another, Yet we’d better by far have him than his brother.

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

But at my back I always hear Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound