 How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but...  The Works of William Shakespeare... - Page 200by William Shakespeare - 1907Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 212 pages
...boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, 3 How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, 4 Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out 6 Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, s Nor gates... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 1955 - 196 pages
...becomes a symbol, almost a synonym, for mortality : Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? The poet protests that he will remain constant despite Time with his scythe, and proclaims that : Love's... | |
 | Wystan Hugh Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...good poem to illustrate that? Sonnet 65 will do: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with...honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ririg days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?... | |
 | G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...usual thought. So is the word 'rage'. Or again, Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong,... | |
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