Sonnet - I (O Shall You Love Me Through My Mellowed Years) Poem by Valerie Dohren
Sonnet - I (O Shall You Love Me Through My Mellowed Years)
O shall you love me through my mellowed years
When I am no more as the rising sun
As less my visage to your heart endears -
The sweetness age thus ever has undone
And wilt thou fix your smile upon my face
Enjoin your fingers with my weathered hand
Then in your arms yet tenderly embrace
As if my life all time had never spanned
Or shall the years so meet with your disdain
As when you look upon this ag'ed brow
O shall you not see beauty there again
Or know once more the joys that youth endow
I pray that love may ever so endure
Unblemished by the years forever more
Like the Shakesperean sonnets, it seems that you have in mind a series of sonnets.(Shakespeare wrote over 156 sonnets) . Sonnet No1 is beautiful and we readers can look forward to equally good ones in the coming days!
The appeal is clear and candid and this man in the sonnet will hopefully stand by you ever, be assured Valerie.
@ Valsa George... very right! ... a very neat shakespearean composition in the same meaningful 3 stanzas with alternate rhyme and a couplet is now producing a desire to have more of the same traditional flavour...i love not only Shakespearean sonnets, but preferably Shakespeare's own sonnets too...Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds! ! !
softly speaks the trials of love's refrain what's bound by youth may wizened age retain.
A very beautiful and warm sonnet, written by a warm and beautiful poet, Val. I love the words forevermore.....such deeply felt meaning it does endure....
ab, ab, cd, cd, ef, ef, gg is the rhyme-scheme.Bearing the same fragrance like Shakespeare and Petrarch.Very beautiful!
A fine sonnet, and as explored the heart sees that which it desires, and in seeing, enduring love is oblivious to that desired in youth realising it is only truely endowed by maturity. A lovely classic structure and form.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/17/2024 8:40:20 PM # 1.0.0.1119
True love weathers all, a really beautiful romantic sonnet