 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 62by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 830 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...breeder of all good. Proteus— TGV III.i 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 silvered o'er with white: When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...forget how never-resting Time leads summer on To hideous winter, and confounds him there. (5) We watch 'summer's green all girded up in sheaves', borne on the bier 'with white and bristly beard' (12). The future promises 'winter' storms, and the 'barren rage of death's eternal cold' (13). Such... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 228 pages
...desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. 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 'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy... | |
 | Vyvyan Evans - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 308 pages
...is my most precious possession Sonnet 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 silvered o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy... | |
 | British Academy - Business & Economics - 2003 - 336 pages
...said unintentionally — in the intensity of working out conceits — Is this to be borne? Hark ye! When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst...sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard. Keats's own language is itself full of fine things said unintentionally, if by this we mean without... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2004 - 342 pages
...que al hacer nuevas copias siempre viva. WHEN I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the...silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren ofleaves Which erstfrom heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - Dramatists, English - 2005 - 296 pages
...poet of the plague years 69 a note that was to be found in Shakespeare also: When lofty trees I sec barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up with sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard . . . (Sonnet 12,5-8) and which sounds,... | |
 | Shakespeare, William - Sonnets, English - 2006 - 366 pages
...copy die. H'J з*^ А Sonnets Sonnet 12 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 silvered o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 706 pages
...and Death.) 42 Shakespeare's Sonnets 43 12 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 '"alP silvered o'er with white; 4 When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did... | |
 | Sonia Zyngier, Anna Chesnokova - Linguistics - 2007 - 333 pages
...Here is a sonnet he would have appreciated: 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'd o'ver with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from head did canopy the herd,... | |
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