No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell

Give warning to the world that I am fled

From this vile world with vildest worms to dwell:

Nay, if you read this line, remember not

The hand that writ it, for I love you so

That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,

If thinking on me then should make you woe.

O if, I say, you look upon this verse

When I perhaps compounded am with clay,

Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,

But let your love even with my life decay,

Lest the wise world should look into your moan

And mock you with me after I am gone.

–WIKI

 Shakespeare Sonnet 71 Analysis

The poet implores to the fair lord not to mourn for him “No longer mourn for me” when he is dead “when I am dead longer” than youth shall hear “Than you shall hear” the hears the funeral bells “surly sullen bell” which warn the world “Give warning to the world” that the poet has escaped it “that I am fled” to live with worms “as his dead body will soon be decomposing in its grave wildest worms to dwell” But let your love even with my life decay,

He tells the youth that when he reads this poem, “The hand that writ it” do not remember the hand that had written it because the poet loves him “for I love you so” a lot and he does not want the youth to make his memory part of his sweet thoughts “That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, “as it will make him sad

He tells him to look upon the poetry when he is in his tomb or coffin, “When I perhaps compounded am with clay” the youth should not speak his name and his love for the poet should die with the poet’s death. “But let your love even with my life decay,”

The youth has to do this because the world that is wise may see the youth mourning “Lest the “wise world” should look into your moan and just as they may mock the poet after death, they will also mock the youth in the same way “And mock you with me after I am gone. “