Not marble, Nor the gilded monuments.....

SONNET 55 by Shakespeare

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

I love this sonnet! I don't know why............ It's also the first sonnet I have ever read, it was in my coarse.

This sonnet delivers a simple message......

people build statues and monuments to get remembered by the next generation and the next generation and so on but they never realize that the monuments and the statues will once get destroyed with the sluttish time or the wasteful wars but the writings, the art always remain.That is the reason shakespeare

By the way today, I posted this poem because today was the last day of my English teacher in school. She was a very nice teacher and we are going to miss her a lot! and want to tell her that she will always dwell in her student's minds! :( :) :D