Let me not to the marriage of true minds--
The sonnet describes love as endless and is not subjected to the life of a normal human being that ages and withers away with time.
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why--
The poem also references time going rapidly by from winter to the summer, "I only know that summer sang in me. A little while, that in me sings no more" (13-14). And while things change with the seasons, memories of love always remain.
Good observations. Your phrase describing love in Shakespeare's sonnet, as not " wither[ing] away with time " works nicely with Millay's tree and seasons imagery.
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