Sonnet Vii: How Soon Hath Time, The Subtle Thief Of Youth Comments

Time the subtle thief of youth. It robs us with our eyes open making us feel most helpless. Great sonnet!

Nice poem, I liked the words. Is Taskmaster a reference to the show on telly?

This is a good poem we read since long.

Time. Milton is talking about a universal theme of humanity. The passing of time. The fleeting nature of time. What does our life matter in the end? The same haunting questions that affect people who lived hundreds of years before Milton and people today. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth/Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

This poem describe what we experience in our lives. Time just tick away, so is our transition from stages of life

Great poem of a great poet in history and his feelings very beautifully narrated in the poem and likes it very much.

Absolutely stunning.... 'Time - that subtle robber of youth'.... How quaint it is that those from centuries ago felt the same as we...