 O'ercharg'd with burden of mine own love's might. O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love and look for recompense More than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O, learn to read what silent...  Shakespeare's Sonnets - Page 29by William Shakespeare - 1865 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Meredith Anne Skura - Drama - 1993 - 348 pages
...speaking breast, Who plead for love and look for recompense More than that tongue hath more expressed. O learn to read what silent love hath writ. To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. (Son. 23) Here, of course, the poet is speaking about his love, not about theater. He is saying something... | |
 | Judith Dundas - Art - 1993 - 310 pages
...Sonnet 23, the lover overcome with emotion cannot find words but his face will speak eloquently for him: "O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: / To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit." 3 As Castiglione advised, the lover is to make his eyes "trustie messengers, that may carry the ambassades... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...breast; Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more exprest. O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. 24 Mine eye hath play'd the painter, and hath stell'd Thy beauty's form in table of my heart; My body... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed. O learn to read what silent love hath writ; To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steeled Thy beauty's form in table of my heart. My body is... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...plead for love, and look for recompense More than that tongue that more hath more express 'd, O, leam to read what silent love hath writ; To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 276 pages
...breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. William Shakespeare LOUISE GLUCK If it is improper to speak as a poet, it is equally difficult to speak... | |
 | Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor - Civilization, Modern - 2000 - 436 pages
...Who pleade for love, and look for recompense. More than that tongue that more hath more expressed. O learn to read what silent love hath writ. To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.10 Like the drama of desire in the play, where "contempt will kill the speaker's heart / And quite... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 676 pages
...breast; Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than the tongue that more hath more expressed. O learn to read what silent love hath writ: • To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. 10 Part VI OF THE READING OF BOOKS I. READING WITH PURPOSE In every age there arc high-minded mentors... | |
 | Subcomandante Marcos - Literary Collections - 2002 - 518 pages
...breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense More than that tongue that more hath more express'd. O, learn to read what silent love hath writ; To hear with eyes belong to love's fine wit. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet XXIII Vale, amber lark; don't look for us beneath... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 2002 - 208 pages
...'unperfect actor on the stage', nor that the couplet anticipates the final scene of The Winter's Tale: O, learn to read what silent love hath writ ! To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit. Then, the Hamlet-like questioning of visual evidence in Sonnet 24: Yet eyes this cunning want to grace... | |
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