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" But you like none, none you, for constant heart. LIV O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem 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... "
Life. Hist. drama. Poems - Page 152
by William Shakespeare - 1887
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 2

Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...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...discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show, They lived unwooed, and unrespected fade ,• Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ,• Of their sweet...
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Shakspere Weighed in an Even Balance

Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 112 pages
...the roses; When summer's breath their masked bud discloses; Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly, But for their virtue only is their show, They live...not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made.—Sonnets, liv. 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud, 'Tis virtue that doth make them most...
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The Sonnets: Poems of Love

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1980 - 172 pages
...fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such...But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwooed and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye ity Pr unwooed and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest...
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Sonetti

William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1992 - 220 pages
...buds discloses: But for their virtne only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade, 10 Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so, Of their...of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, my verse distils your truth. Qual è la vostra sostanza, di che cosa siete dunque fatto, che...
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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare: With an Introduction and ...

William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...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...of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, my verse distils your truth. 55 Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall oudive...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 196 pages
...we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. 5 The canker blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such...play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked bud discloses; But for their virtue only is their show 10 They live unwooed and unrespected fade, Die...
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Shakespeare's Theory of Drama

Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...that can be made to last once it has decayed. The verse of the 'rival' poets is like the canker bloom: 'But for their virtue only is their show / They live...unwoo'd and unrespected fade -/ Die to themselves' (54.9-1 1). The 'rival' poets of 82 cannot make the Friend live after death: their rhetorical dyes...
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The Rose's Kiss: A Natural History Of Flowers

Peter Bernhardt - Nature - 1999 - 296 pages
...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...discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, Tliey live unwoo'd and imrespectedfade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays

James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...As the perfumed tincture of the roses, But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoocd, and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses...of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall vade, by verse distils your truth. (54.5-6, 9-14) This comparison between the rose and youth once again...
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