 By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly...  The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Page 66by William Shakespeare - 1826 - 830 pagesFull view - About this book
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...as in great tragedy, for the line compresses volumes, creative. Death is their poetic immortality: And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.1 (54) This is not a weak conclusion. Why? Simply because the poet has found a metaphoric expression... | |
| |
