...read to you one of my very favorite Shakespeare's sonnets: 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning...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...

...forward, Ranger intoned something which sounded like a prayer: No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning...From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell. Then the music stopped and the clock somewhere inside the bar chimed the hour. As if this was a signal,...

...word in funereal contexts, as John may intend here ; see 'No longer moum for me when 1 am dead ! Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell ! Give warning to the world that I am fled' (Sonnet 71.1-3) and 'Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change' (Romeo 4.4. 1 1 5). presage Accent on...

...his private friends," is central to their meaning.17 When he falsecoyly asks not to be remembered, "If you read this line, remember not / The hand that writ it" (sonnet 71), he calls particular attention to the handwritten poem as an artifact of the self. Sonnet...

...heart by heart, I see. -Louise Bogan (1897-1970) Sonnet LXXI No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning...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...

...been he to whom two decades before Shakespeare had written: No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning...be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.30 Is it conceivable that Southampton, as recipient of lines like that, could have dared not provide...

...begins by urging him not to "mourn for me when I am dead," or at least to do so "No longer ..." Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning...the world that I am fled From this vile world with vildest worms to dwell. ' (1-4) The "bell," with the onomatopoetic accompaniment of the repeated "1"...

...74) or church-bells ringing out death, as in plague-time, No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world (Sonnet 71) or death's bleak, beautiful season with a possible allusion, after all, to 'our ruined...

...deaths. Here's one by The Bard himself: The Triumph of Death No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning...forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. 0 if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my...

...suspicion of evil did not falsely cover you 14 owe own 71 No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning...you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot s If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse 10 When I, perhaps,...