The speaker is celebrating his love for his mistress by telling us all of the wonderful things about her and all the wonderful things he will do for her. In lines thirteen through sixteen the speaker remarks “a hundred years should go to praise thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze, two hundred to adore each breast, but thirty thousand to the rest.” Even though all these comments are unrealistic to the actual years a human can live they are very complimentary towards his mistress. The speaker shows he has everlasting feelings for this woman and his feelings shall never die down. The speaker quotes “love should grow vaster than empires” (11-12). He feels as if he has all the love in the world to give her. The speaker celebrates himself through his passionate love for her. He is happy that he has someone to love. His only problem is time; they will both eventually age and die and his love can’t be expressed. Throughout the poem he is very positive until he gets the ending. He is worried about how much time he really has to love her. He says “time’s winged chariot hurrying near” (22). He uses this to show that he will eventually run out of time to love her and the time is coming near. The only line that appears to be slightly negative towards his beloved is in line twenty five, when he replies “thy beauty shall no more be found”. I believe he is directing this towards her as she ages. He feels that when she ages she will no longer have beauty.
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