 Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And, thou away, the very birds are mute: Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,...  The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 71by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 830 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...alter their lords' decease. Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans, and unfathered fruit; For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou away, the very birds are mute. (5-12) No longer "O'ercharged with burthen of mine own love's might" (23.8), the speaker views the... | |
 | Robert S. Miola - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 206 pages
...speaker's anguish and desolation. In Sonnet 98 Shakespeare brilliantly adapts this seasonal convention: From you have I been absent in the spring When proud-pied...dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell... | |
 | Parke Godwin - 1999 - 316 pages
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