This author wrote of a time when "forty winters shall besiege thy brow/
This author wrote of a time when "forty winters shall besiege thy brow/And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field." In another poem, this man evokes "sweet silent thought" by "[summoning] up remembrance of things past." The speaker of another of this author's poems begins "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments." In one work, this poet stated "so as long eyes can see/So long lives this and this gives life to thee". This man began a late poem "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", and also asked the Dark Lady "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" For 10 points, name this Elizabethan-era poet who wrote 154 of his namesake sonnets.
This author wrote of a time when "forty winters shall besiege thy brow/
William Shakespeare