...not unimaginable: O how shall summers' honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? The personification of Time is clear enough since it is, after all, a normal figure in Renaissance...

...wonderful sonnets: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...stout Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays? In this matchless genius's hands phonetic aspects of words reinforce their metaphorical or literal...

...as knowledge — this quatrain of a Shakespeare sonnet about the destructions of time, for example: O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? (SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 65) Among the experiences these lines give the reader are "summer," "honey breath,"...

...loss ever written: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong...

...cautiously titled "Toward Bethlehem," and its epigraph from Shakespeare's Sonnet LXV is about fragility: How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Even the ending paragraph quoted above hovers over the material details of disembarkation and customs,...

...conversation about Mapplethorpe's work in the United States, they remind us of a couplet from Shakespeare: "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?" Those razor-sharp petals cut through a tough knot in the theory-laden art of our time. Purity in late-twentieth-century...

...anguished question Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? (65) is that beauty is more powerful than power, because beauty renews and propagates itself unendingly,...

...and orchestras O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? William Shakespeare, 'Sonnet No. 65'. One of the quirks of human mortality is that we live our lives...

...du. 65 Shakespeare: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? Oh how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks...

...'rage'. Or again, Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold...stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays ? (Sonnet ucv) summer airs are usual as a contrast. Notice 'siege* and 'battering', a metaphor which...