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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Poems. Verses among the additional ... - Page 265
by William Shakespeare - 1851 - 38 pages
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The Sonnets: Poems of Love

William Shakespeare - 1980 - 172 pages
...thy state! But do not so; I love thee in such sort As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report. H ow like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the...what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed was summer's time, The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,...
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Dialogue for Lovers: Sonnets of Shakespeare Arranged for Dramatic Presentation

Eve Merriam - 1981 - 44 pages
...swift birdlike passage, suggesting a brief Music rendezvous and then separation again .) Cue #7 WOMAN. How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...autumn, big with rich increase, Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime, Like widowed wombs after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seem'd...
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Shakespeare's Metrical Art

George T. Wright - 1988 - 366 pages
...the successive phrases establish remarkably varied groupings of syllables and stresses. For example: How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! (Sonnet 97: 1-4) Each of the first two lines has a third-foot pyrrhic, but the lines have...
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Shakespeare on Love: Quotations from the Plays & Poems

William Shakespeare - 1991 - 108 pages
...shall e'er be guilty of my stay, Nor rest be interposer 'twixt us twain. The Merchant of Venice (3.2) How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...days seen! What old December's bareness every where! . . . For summer and his pleasures wait on thee, And thou away, the very birds are mute; Or if they...
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Du Fu's Laments from the South

David McCraw - 1992 - 292 pages
...around Chang'an. Du Fu's faithful, disconsolate nostalgia recalls the tone of Shakespeare's sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...days seen! What old December's bareness every where! WINTER SOLSTICE Year after year on solstice day, ever the wanderer; Swift and sudden, dead-end sorrows...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...POPE 11688-1 744), English satirical poet. Leller, 14 Dec. 1725, to pocl and author (onathan Swifi. 13 US engineer. The Economic Theory of the Location...ENGLISH 1 Your Englishman, confronted by something ab everywhere! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (15М-16Ш. English dramatist, poet. Sonne/ 97. 14 When delicate and...
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The Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare: With an Introduction and ...

William Shakespeare - 1994 - 212 pages
...thy state! But do not so; I love thee in such sort, As thou being mine, mine is thy good report. 97 How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...increase, Bearing the wanton burden of the prime, Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease: Yet this abundant issue seemed to me But hope of orphans...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 196 pages
...Drown - a pun on drawing a picture, and following on necessarily, as does a carriage drawn by a horse. How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! 5 And yet this time removed was summer's time, And teeming autumn big with rich increase,...
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Selected Poems

William Shakespeare - 1995 - 136 pages
...For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. 94 How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! And yet this time removed was summer's time, The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...LAMB, (1775-1834) British essayist, critic. Essays of Elia, "A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig" (1820-23). How like a winter hath my absence been From thee,...what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! Absurdity 1 The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man...
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