1609 in poetry

— Last lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, published this year and, four centuries later, still "eternal lines"

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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