 ... even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, And wear their brave state out of memory ; Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To...  The Sonnets of William Shakspere - Page 15by William Shakespeare - 1881 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sonnet 63 That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none,... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Christoph Harbsmeier - History - 1998 - 514 pages
...youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you I engraft you new. For stylistic reasons one would not expect a poem of this kind in Classical Chinese: sentences tend... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...scythe can make defence / Save breed to brave him when he takes thee hence', whereas that of 15 reads 'And all in war with Time for love of you, / As he takes from you I engraft you new'; 17 proposes a double immortality, in a child and in 'my rhyme', but then 18 and 19 make the strongest... | |
 | James Schiffer - Drama - 2000 - 500 pages
...with memory as a defense against loss. He is at war with time, as he explicitly says in sonnet 15: "And all in war with time for love of you, / As he takes from you, I engraft you new" (14-15; emphasis added) and implies in many others: Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth. And... | |
 | Frederick Turner - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 232 pages
...Shakespeare now does is graft the new, cultural form of reproduction upon the old, biological form: And, all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you, I engraft you new. Thus poetry is to living reproduction what living reproduction is to the enduring hardness of the stone... | |
 | Allen G. Noble, Frank J. Costa - Business & Economics - 1999 - 262 pages
...upon another, but rather of organic life spliced into the timeless realm of art, into the poem itself: "And all in war with Time for love of you,/ As he takes from you, I ingraft you new." Both of these poems reflect standard Elizabethan sonnet conventions such as the linking... | |
 | Barbara Kiefer Lewalski - History - 2000 - 388 pages
...Several sonnets betray a certain anxiety towards the immortality allegedly conferred by works alone: "But wherefore do not you a mightier way / Make war upon this bloody tyrant time? / And fortify yourself in your decay / With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?" 9 Like Shakespeare, Jonson,... | |
 | R. A. Sharpe - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 250 pages
...and it would be an oversimplification to take them as either true or false. But wherefore do you not a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant time? And fortify your self in your decay With means more blessed than my barren rhyme? Now stand you on the top of happy... | |
 | Matt Goldish, Karl A. Kottman, Richard Henry Popkin, James E. Force - History - 2001 - 142 pages
...see her now. lack. How like Shakespeare's couplet iSonnet XV): To change your day of youth to sullied night: And all in war with Time for love of you. As he takes from you, I engraft you new. In both cases, writing brings the dead or moribund to life just as a graft works to bring a new flower.... | |
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