 Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5741828Full view - About this book
 | Carl Karpf - 1869 - 204 pages
...life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a commen grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie....my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1869 - 602 pages
...have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die. The earth can yield me but a common grave, While you, entombed in men's eyes, shall lie. Your monument...my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead... | |
 | Howard Felperin - 1985 - 228 pages
...reproduce a 'living record'. 'When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie', Shakespeare writes in 81, 'Your monument shall be my gentle verse / Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, / And tongues to be your being shall rehearse.' In so far as the monumental statuary, mausoleums,... | |
 | Jane Hedley - 1988 - 222 pages
...sculptured stone, the difference being that poems are materialized by successive generations of readers: Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead,... | |
 | David McCraw - 1992 - 292 pages
...immortality of his subjects and of his own undying verse, inevitably recalling the last half of sonnet 8 1 : When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument...my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 220 pages
...shall lie. Yonr monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet create d shall o'er-read, 10 And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead, You still shall live (such virtue hath my pen) Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 212 pages
...eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gende verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead; You still shall live - such virtue hath my pen Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1995 - 196 pages
...eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, 10 Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read, And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live - such virtue hath my pen Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.... | |
 | Nehgs, New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - 2016 - 614 pages
...his pen. He hated to make himself a " motley to the view" and to sell " cheap what was most dear." " Your monument shall be my gentle verse Which eyes not yet created shall o'er read," he writes in a sonnet, secure of his future fame ; and then, in the very next : — " Oh for my sake... | |
 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 pages
..."Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this pow'rful rhyme" (sonnet 55); "Your monument shall be my gentle verse, / Which eyes not yet created shall o'erread, / And tongues to be your being shall rehearse / When all the breathers of this world are... | |
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