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Help on understanding a shakespeare poem. English is not my native tounge.?

TO me, fair Friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters' cold
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride;

Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd 5
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.

Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived; 10
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:

For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred,—
Ere you were born, was beauty's summer dead.

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3 months ago
For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred.
what does this mean??


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

It's just all about how the women he loves may have changed in her physical appearance, but he says that she is absolutely as beautiful as she ever was. He's saying that she'll never look old to him because he loves her.

"Ere you were born, was beauty's summer dead" - in other words, the summer of beauty was dead before she was born. I guess that could mean that the brief golden age of beauty was over even before this wonderful woman was born.