Understand Shakespeare's language with this sonnet followed by a modern translation. This was not an easy one to communicate in modern English, it's definitely more eloquent and concise in the original Shakespeare, but I hope you enjoy the modern version.
When all my acting work got cancelled in the first lockdown, I decided to use the time to start learning all of Shakespeare's sonnets. I hope you find the modern translation afterwards entertaining. 123 down 31 to go!
This poem is both part of the Fair Youth Sonnets & part of the sequence from 87-126 known as the Fickle Youth Sonnets. Sonnet 123 and 124 share the theme of Shakespeare's poetry being uneffected by changes in fashion over time, and can be performed as a pair.
Sonnet 124 - • What does Shakespeare'...
Sonnet 123 full text:
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old,
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past;
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
This I do vow, and this shall ever be:
I will be true despite thy scythe and thee.
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