by Lucy E. Zahnle

Created on: September 05, 2009   Last Updated: May 16, 2011

Immortality – A Shakespearean Sonnet

Had I the sky in my outstretched palm   

 Along with the mountains and vast blue sea;

 Had I the power the winds to becalm, 

 My glorious gifts were dross without thee.  

King in the Garden of Earthly Delights,  

 If sweetest Eden belonged to me, 

 I would relinquish, son, my lordly rights, 

 Were it needful to love and safeguard thee.

If I held the wisdom of all the world, 

Caged like a sun-gold swan in my mind, 

I would give it to thee, wings unfurled, 

Save one artless, ageless truth left behind. 

Thou art my hope, my pride, my greatest joy, 

 And all I am, I am in thee, my boy. 

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