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" When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard ; Then of thy beauty do I question make, ' for store, ie to be preserved for... "
The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 62
by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 830 pages
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An Address Delivered Before the Birmingham Shakespeare Reading Club at the ...

James Turner (of Birmingham.) - 1885 - 22 pages
...is a very fine sample of this feature : When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the...girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly-beard ; Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go,...
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Characteristics of English Poets, from Chaucer to Shirley

William Minto - English poetry - 1885 - 436 pages
...contemporaries ? In Sonnet XII. we find the following picture of the mournful time of the year : — When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst...sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard. The aspects here presented correspond very closely with the aspects in Phaeton's sonnet, the succinct...
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Complete Works of Shakespeare, Volume 4

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 888 pages
...print more, not let that copy die. XII. When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver 'a o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy...
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Three Hundred English Sonnets

David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1886 - 342 pages
...' Thou single wilt prove none. " T Tl 7HEN I do count the clock that tells the time, * And see the brave day sunk in hideous night ; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silvered o'er with white ; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy...
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Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 276 pages
...not let that copy die. ALL THINGS FADE VXTHEN I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night ; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver' d o'er with white ; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VI, pt. II-III. King Henry VI ...

William Shakespeare - 1887 - 532 pages
...94, 95: and the green corn llath rotted ere his ifntttli attain da BEAKD. Compare Sonnet xil. 7, 8: And summer's green all girded up in sheaves. Borne on the bier with white and bristly btard. 93. Lines 98, 09: The nine men'* inorrin ixfill'd up uith mud. And the quaint maze* in the icantun...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pages
...more, not let that copy ' • die. XII. When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night ; When I behold the...and bristly beard ; Then of thy beauty do I question make,7 That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,...
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Prose

John Keats - Poets, English - 1889 - 546 pages
...borne ? Hark ye ! When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the head, And Summer's green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly head. He has left nothing to say about nothing or anything : for look at snails — you know what he...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pages
...let that copy6 die. XII. When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day -mil, in hideous night ; When I behold the violet past prime,...and bristly beard ; Then of thy beauty do I question make,7 That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,...
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Longman Guide to Shakespeare Quotations

Trevor R. Griffiths, Trevor A. Joscelyne - 1985 - 680 pages
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