 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall out-live this powerful rhyme ; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the...  Life. Hist. drama. Poems - Page 152by William Shakespeare - 1887Full view - About this book
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 | William Pencak - Social Science - 2002 - 218 pages
...this pow'rful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - England - 2002 - 416 pages
...despite 68 apparent death within the dimension to which poetry is a sure, if only provisional, approach: When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pages
...true of 'pace' in this, one of the greatest sonnets of all, powerful though the context itself be : When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils...The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still And room Even in the eyes of all... | |
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