 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 220 pagina’s
...long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee (xvra, 13-14) Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read. (LXXXI, 9-10) That the beloved is regarded as the nonpareil, 'the very archetypal pattern and substance'... | |
 | Philip R. Hardie - 2002 - 382 pagina’s
...already rewritten the Epilogue in his own exile poetry in order to promise immortality to his wife): Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'cr-read; And tongues to be your being shall rehearse When all the breathers of this world are dead;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 768 pagina’s
...verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-cead, i0 And tongues-to-he your heing shall rchearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead. You still shall live tsuch viriue hath my peni Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. ; married ie irrevocahly... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 256 pagina’s
...within a platitude. The youth, says the poet, will live in the life-breath of poetry as nowhere else : You still shall live — such virtue hath my pen — Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men. (81) The superficial thought is nothing, but the words used, the quiet security... | |
 | William Addison Waters - 2003 - 204 pagina’s
...his voice, "uniqueness and unrecoverable transitoriness." Or as Shakespeare puts it to his young man: Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes...Where breath most breathes, ev'n in the mouths of men. (sonnet 81) The "immortality" of poetry is not in the monument but in the breath and voice of the reader.... | |
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Your name from hence immortal life shall have, 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... 
