Sonnet 9 Antonis Antoniadis, Ud K Berlin, Germany

Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK, Berlin) Germany Sonnet IX Is it for fear to wet a widow s eye That thou consumest thyself in single life Ah if thou issueless shalt hap to die. The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife; The world will be thy widow and still weep That thou no form of thee hast left behind, When every private widow well may keep By children s eyes her husband s shape in mind. Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend Shifts but his place,